Research Guides: Library Tutorials: Google Scholar

What is Google Scholar?

Google Scholar is a subset of Google Web Search that specifically searches for scholarly literature, including articles, papers, theses, books and reports. A Google Scholar search uses natural language. Your search is interdisciplinary, retrieving broad results. Each citation retrieved includes a “Cited by” reference which links to other articles that have used the retrieved article in its references.

If searching from on-campus or via the GW VPN, full-text links will automatically appear in your search. These links connect you to full-text electronic journals provided by Himmelfarb Library.

Google Scholar Search Tips and Information

Google Scholar Q&A

Google Scholar Search Tips
Using Google Scholar at GW

Google Scholar Tutorials

Teacher's Guide on the Effective Use of Google Scholar
Step by step directions from Google Engineer, Daniel Russell.
Using Google Scholar
Quick tutorial covering the basics from Eastern Michigan University.