3.5 Google Scholar

What is Google Scholar?

Google Scholar (scholar.google.com Links to an external site.) is a Google tool that allows for a simple method to limit your search to scholarly literature. Search results include journal articles, books, theses, abstracts and court opinions from academic publishers, professional societies, universities and other websites.

Warning: Not Everything is Free

Many articles found in Google Scholar will not provide the full text of the article for free. Instead, they will charge a fee to read the article. Please check with the library first - we may have it for free, and if not, we can get it for you, for free!

Google Scholar search results show 2 articles with freely available PDF full text, and one article with no PDF (no article freely available)

Video Tutorial

Please watch this quick 2-minute demo from the Cabrillo Library, showing how to use Google Scholar effectively for your research: