2. GOOGLE SCHOLAR IS...
NOTa Research
Database
It’s a SEARCH ENGINE

3. GOOGLE SCHOLAR:
A STEP UP FROM GOOGLE
• Uses same search technology as Google
• Limits searches to scholarly articles, books, and
documents
• Links DIRECTLY to Gumberg Library resources
with FindIt@Duquesne
• Need your DU multipass to access articles from off
campus

4. CAUTION:
Google Scholar has some limitations :
• Not everything is free or full text
• Not everything is indexed (searchable)
• “Scholarly” in Google Scholar does not necessarily
mean peer-reviewed
• ONLY scholarly sources; NO newspaper or popular
magazine articles
Still , it is a great resource with more
and more articles available all the time!

5. CAN ACCESS FROM LIBRARY HOMEPAGE...

6. ... OR THE INTERNET!
http://scholar.google.com

7. ON CAMPUS: LINK BACK IS SET UP ALREADY
• Click on the Find It @ Duquesne to search for full-text or search the
catalog (similar to the Find It button in the databases)
• If available in full-text elsewhere, click the HTML, PDF, or other link to
the right

8. OFF CAMPUS
If you are working off campus, you will have to set up
Scholar Settings on your personal computer in
order to be able to link back to our databases.
If you do NOT do this, you will NOT have access to the
full-text articles in our databases while using
Google Scholar -- and will not know if we have them
available full text.
Once you set your personal computer up to link back, it will stay that way for
future searching.

9. OFF CAMPUS: GO TO SCHOLAR SETTINGS

10. OFF CAMPUS: SELECT LIBRARY LINKS

11. LIBRARY LINKS
• Type “Duquesne” and then click “Find Library”
• Select Duquesne University – Find It @ Duquesne

12. BE SURE TO CLICK SAVE!

13. NOW YOU ARE SET!
You will now be able to search Google
Scholar AND link back to full-text
scholarly articles in our library
databases!