1. What is Google Scholar? It is a free web search engine that indexes scholarly publicationsfrom many disciplines.This means you are searching a range oftopics all at once, and you will get different search results. Much of the content is available in full-text It allows easy access to published and peer-reviewed articles Easy to navigate in the familiar Google format Results are ranked by how relevant they are to the search query

2. How is Google Scholar different from a standard Google search? Google searches theWeb and retrieves any results that match yourquery So, you may get some academic results, but most likely the firstresult will be a Wikipedia article, and subsequent results could befrom just about any source Google Scholar filters your search results to only find scholarly journalarticles and books 3. Is Google Scholar credible? Google Scholar gives you books, journals, and articlespublished by experts in their field You can see how many other scholars have cited a particularsource, and gauge the visibility and influence of scholarlypublications Citation metrics are a good measure of impact, and howreliable the source is Results never includeWikipedia articles 4. Access Google Scholar..By navigating directlyOr, from the library homepage 5. Files may be available in PDF format, as web pages, or as presentationsGoogle Scholar Features 6. How do I get the articles I found in Google Scholar? Click on the article to see if you can link directly to it Some of the articles on Google Scholar are on publishers databases andare restricted to subscribers. UNC students can access many of them.The first thing you should do is tell Google Scholaryou are affiliated with UNC CH, so it can providelinks directly to the Librarys E-Journals. 7. Set Scholar Preferences 8. Helpful tips Citation chaining using the cited by feature Advanced Search allows you to search within a particularjournal, time period or discipline You can import your Google Scholar Search results intoRefWorks, or other citation manager If the article or book is not in the UNC collection, you may be ableto interlibrary loan it 9. Keep In Mind You cant rely on Google Scholar alone, but its a good place to start Pay attention to the credibility of the source consider bias, authorityand currency regardless of where the material is from