Class Presentation.

Topic: Google Scholar.Group: D (Group Leader: Ashikuzzaman)

Course number: 301

Name of Course: Indexing and Abstracting

Special thanks to our honorable course teacher

Md. Nazmul Islam

Assistant professor

Dept. of Information Science and Library Management

What is Google Scholar?

Google Scholar is a subset of Google Web Search

that enables you to search specifically for scholarly

literature, including papers, theses, books, and

reports.

Features of Google Scholar:

Search all scholarly literature from oneconvenient place.

Explore related works, citations, authors, andpublications.

Locate the complete document through yourlibrary or on the web.

Keep up with recent developments in any areaof research.

Check who's citing your publications, create apublic author profile.

Freely access to scholarly literature via Googlescholar.

When Should I use Google Scholar?

You are new to the research process and would benefit from using more natural language to search.

It is early in your research process, and you can benefit from the wide range of disciplines Google Scholar searches.

You need background information on your topic and/or need help narrowing down your topic before diving into the library’s databases.

You need help brainstorming keywords and phrases to use when you search in the library’s research databases.

You want to check out what other articles have cited an article that you have found particularly helpful to your research project.

Searching on Google Scholar.

Type of Search: There is both a basic and advanced search option

for Google Scholar.

Basic search: It is the by default searching technique of Google

Scholar. This search process show many irrelevant documents that

is not needed by the user.

Advance Search:

Google's Advanced Search does not mean it is more difficult! It provides options

to search more precisely to obtain more relevant results.

You can:

Determine how you want your search terms to be searched, e.g. as a phrase, a number

range;

Narrow your results by language, region, date, file type;

Filter by usage rights, e.g. free to use or share, free to use share or modify

Carry out a site or domain specific search.

What does “cited by” mean?

Google Scholar includes a list of references under each article

and paper, so when an author cites old materials, even outdated

information, these appear in your search results.

Why sometime Google Scholar asked me to pay for the full text?

Google Scholar often links to commercial publisher websites that may

ask you to buy a subscription or pay to access an article.

Advantages of Google Scholar

Some of the main advantages of Google scholar are briefly discussed in below:

Full text articles available;

Search for many sources from just one search engine;

If available, the whole paper or article can be located;

The articles are ranked to produce the best solution to the search;

Abstracts and Citations can also be found;

Google Scholar's results are more academically related than most other search engines;

Google scholar allows you to connect to library servers;

Ranks and lists search results in order of relativity to search query;

Show how many article cited your article.

You can find federal and state cases with Google Scholar’s powerful search algorithm (similar to WestlawNext and Lexis Advance), and it will likely return relevant results even if you do not use the proper search terms. Its algorithm works best for issues that are commonly litigated.

You can limit your search results by keyword, date, and court.

You can create citation alerts and have them delivered to your email.

Limitations/problems of Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a search engine by Google. It can be accessed by going to http://scholar.google.com/. It has many limitations of problems. Some of them are stated below:

Some articles require payment for full view of text;

Some articles are available only as abstracts; others are pay-per-view.

Results may not be as comprehensive to search;

Google Scholar has less coverage in humanities and more in Science and Technology;

Not all search results are always current and completely accurate;

A non-scholarly source can sometimes show up as a result;

Google Scholar does not cover non-English source.

It only shows those result only which are indexed on its database.

Old publications are not indexed on its database.

Only digital publications may capable to indexed on its database, those publications which does not any digital format may not able to indexed on its database.

Although Google Scholar has no database for legal articles, you can keyword search to find articles, and it will provide links to articles hosted on other websites.