Tsiba BCM2Guide to researchGoogle scholar

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To access Google scholar try this URL:

https://scholar.google.co.za/

If you can’t remember the URL just search for “Google scholar”

Now – lets try a search.

Why use Google Scholar?It provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.

Some of the articles may be quite old – narrow them down

by age here

Citations tell us how often an article has been referenced. The more citations the more

‘popular’ the paper. This one has 128 citations –that’s quite a few so lets have a look at this paper

This indicates that a PDF of this paper is available which will normally be free to access – you can click on the title or on this PDF link.

Sometimes the link doesn’t work. Don’t worry just click back in your browser to the previous

page….

There are 9 other versions of this paper – just click on the link here

And here are the 9 sources – lets try the second source

And this time it works!

click back in your browser to go back to your search….

If you like the document then you may want to save or print it.Move your cursor to the bottom right hand corner and the toolbar will come up which allows you to quickly save the document

You may also get links to books sometimes these will include a PDF download and sometimes you will be able to view the book online on Google books.

Here is an example of Google books. You just scroll up and down to read the book.

If you click here you can see papers that have CITED the paper you are

interested – this will lead you to more recent papers.

Once you have found a paper that is relevant to you research it may be worth checking out similar or related papers

Google scholar also provide you a link to related or similar articles –

just click here

Other TSIBA BCM2 research guides:• 2. Using media in your research• 3. Cataloguing your online research

Tsiba BCM2Guide to researchGoogle scholar