Using Google for College-Level Research: Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a version of Google, that searches more scholarly literature and academic resources like:

• articles
• theses
• books
• abstracts
• court opinions 

That's the good news!

The bad news - not everything is available full-text (the entire article) and for free. Try it for yourself! Google Scholar 

Search Tips for Google and Google Scholar:

• Lead with the most important words
• global warming is searching for the word global and the word  warming anywhere in the document
• "    "  double quotes searches for an exact phrase: "global warming"    
• +  plus sign must include word(s): earthquake +california 
• -  minus sign must exclude word(s): earthquake -california 
• site:  searches a particular domain: "global warming" site: gov