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Unlike search results on Google.com, Google Scholar search results isn’t a ranking of websites. Instead, Google Scholar search results are lists of scholarly articles related to your query. Google Scholar can also be used to locate United States patent filings as well as state and federal court cases. 
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In today's post we are sharing with you four practical Chrome extensions that will enable you to search the web in more efficient and effective ways. More specifically, using these extensions you will be able to easily access and search for scholarly articles, find similar web pages to the page you are currently browsing, initiate a Google search using images, and many more.
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The sheer number of online services and social media platforms available to academics makes it possible to receive a constant stream of information about newly published research. However, much of this may serve only as a distraction from your research and staying on top of it all can even come to feel like a burden. Anne-Wil Harzing offers some simple advice to help you streamline your alerts and notifications and keep up to date with the important new publications in your field. Getting the most out of your Google Scholar profile, creating some old-fashioned table of contents alerts, and simply setting aside time to periodically review key journal titles will ensure you rarely miss out on important research.
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Google Scholar is absolutely one of the best academic search engines out there. It allows you to easily search for and access academic papers and journal articles related to your topic of interest. Besides the search functionality, Scholar also provides you with a host of other interesting features to help you in your research jounrey.
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Teaching Google Scholar in your library instructional sessions can increase students' information and digital literacy skills. Students' familiarity with Google Scholar's interface works to the instructor's advantage and allows more time to address students' information needs and teach foundational information literacy skills and less time teaching a new database with a less-intuitive database interface. Teaching Google Scholar: A Practical Guide for Librarians will illustrate instructional methods and incorporate step-by-step guides and examples for teaching Google Scholar. It begins with providing you with essential background:What Google Scholar isHow to set up Google Scholar using OpenURLHow to design Google Scholar instructional sessionsHow to incorporate active learning activities using Google ScholarAfter reading it, you will be ready to teach students critical skills including how to:Use specific Google Scholar search operatorsIncorporate search logicExtract citation data, generate citations, and save citations to Google's My Library and/or a citation management programUse Google Scholar tools- including 'cited by,' 'alerts,' 'library links,' and 'library search'Google Scholar is a powerful research tool and will only become more popular in the coming years. Learning how to properly teach students how to utilize this search engine in their research will greatly benefit them in their college career and help promote life-long learning. Google Scholar instruction is a must in today's modern information literacy classroom.
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So you are a Student, a Teacher, Librarian or a Researcher and you've heard all the talks about Google Scholar but do not know much about it or how to maximize its use for your research work- do not worry as you have come to the right place. Here we are going to let you know what Google Scholar is all about and how you can efficiently use it for your research purposes.
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When searching Google Scholar, you can find the full-text directly by linking your library, get more search options for more detailed searches and more.
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As a research student you probably are already doing a lot of research in Google Scholar which you should given the power and reliability of this academic search engine. The strength of Scholar, however, lies in the numerous hidden features that are usually overlooked by many students. These features enable you to conduct smart and targeted search queries that can potentially return accurate results with the minimum time possible.
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Google Scholar is definitely one of the best academic search engines out there. It is helping me a lot with my PhD studies and I am using it almost on a daily basis. The search part which I am sharing with you today is only a small part of what you really can do with Google scholar. There are actually several other features that are indispensable for academics and student researchers.
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Google Scholar is one of the most useful but often overlooked research and academic tools available to students and educators online.
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While Google remains a robust search engine with great capabilities and potential for us in education and academia, sometimes it seems more plausible to use specific and topic-based search engines to look for better search results.
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Librarians want to make their content searchable, but they’re wary of commercial software that may skew the results.
Many professors and students gravitate to Google as a gateway to research. Libraries want to offer them a comparably simple and broad experience for searching academic content. As a result, a major change is under way in how libraries organize information. Instead of bewildering users with a bevy of specialized databases—books here, articles there—many libraries are bulldozing their digital silos. They now offer one-stop search boxes that comb entire collections, Google style. That’s the ideal, anyway. The reality is turning out to be messier.
LibrarianLand's curator insight,
April 21, 2014 3:10 PM
The question is, what is being lost by trying to make it a quick and easy one stop shop? |
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In our new remote teaching and learning environments students may find themselves having to look things up online more than ever before. Even if you're hosting online class meetings in Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams there will still be lots of time when students need to do some research on their own. This is a good time to remind students about some basic search strategies like creating a search checklist and consulting vocabulary lists as part of the search process. Once they've done those basics it might be time for them to try some other search tools that often get overlooked.
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Google Scholar is one of the top academic search engines out there. It provides research community with a host of useful features that facilitate their work and enhance their productivity. We have extensively covered Google Scholar in our previous posts and we have an entire section dedicated to everything teachers and student researchers need to know to tap into the educational potential of this platform.
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Google Scholar crawls the worldwide web for scholarly articles and research so that you don’t have to.
Reginald Smith's curator insight,
April 29, 2018 8:17 AM
Google Scholar is a better resource than just having students Google their topics. We should really help students get in the habit of finding information from sources like this or other paid databases. (Infobase, BadgerLink, Discovery Education)
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Google is the default search engine for many students. In fact, if your students have Chromebooks and the school has set Google as the default search engine, they may not even realize that there are search engines other than Google.
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Academic profiling services are a pervasive feature of scholarly life. Alberto Martín-Martín, Enrique Orduna-Malea and Emilio Delgado López-Cózar discuss the advantages and disadvantages of major profile platforms and look at the role of ego in how these services are built and used. Scholars validate these services by using them and should be aware that the portraits shown in these platforms depend to a great extent on the characteristics of the “mirrors” themselves.
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Google can be your best friend when it comes to searching for answers or information online. Millions of people use it every day, but only few can utilize Google to its full potential. In fact, this powerful search engine can offer lots of great services, apps and features that aren’t on many people’s radar.
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This poster highlights the 'Big Three' search engines for teachers and Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa) , Jim Lerman, Mark E. Deschaine, PhD
Mrs. Reinagel's curator insight,
June 10, 2016 1:49 PM
Free chart with the +/- of big 3 search engines. 
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Tom, don't use them, use: Don't use them, use http://www.searchcredible.com/ for classroom research. They are included.
Robert's curator insight,
May 20, 2020 8:17 AM
This poster will be printed and provided to my students in every lesson! Great visual aide to knowing what tools are available for what purpose!
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For the first time, Google has released the full version of their search quality raters guidelines and handbook. It is 160 pages of wonder SEO knowledge. Via THE OFFICIAL ANDREASCY
THE OFFICIAL ANDREASCY's curator insight,
November 19, 2015 4:49 PM
Nice move by Google, releasing the guide it uses for "search quality" raters, people who are hired to do manual reviews of search results. That feedback is used to shape Google's search algorithms. Now you can see directly some of the guidance those raters are given about what Google looks for in terms of search quality.
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Google Scholar is a search engine that provides academic results to its users for free, showing links to journal articles or theses on a selected topic. Via Enrico De Angelis, Mark E. Deschaine, PhD
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This morning I spent some time reading the first part of the solution to Dr. Daniel Russell's most recent search challenge on Search ReSearch. Dr. Russell is a search anthropologist working at Google. Every week he posts search challenges that are designed to introduce you to new ways of searching for information.
Anita Vance's curator insight,
September 27, 2014 2:41 PM
Here is the review of google search guides. A link or reminder for when a student needs a quick reminder of shortcuts, etc.
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Instead of heading to the library to bury your face in the stacks, use these search engines to find out which libraries have the books you need, and maybe even find them available online.
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