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Google scholar is one of the Google services that many people don't know about. Even though this service is very useful for students or students who often work on papers.
But before that, what is Google Scholar? Google Scholar is a special search service for students, students, and academics created by Anurag Acharya, a former academic who later joined Google's web-indexing team in 2000.
This service allows you to search journals, save sources to your 'personal library' and get quotes quickly. So, before starting to use Google Scholar, let's take a look at 5 tips to take advantage of the service as reported by Mashable.
1. How to search for articles or journals
Google Scholar works the same way as the Google search engine. To get maximum search results, you must use keywords that are as specific as possible.
To access Google Scholar, you can go to the site and you can immediately search for articles on the search bar on the front page. The search results that appear on Scholar are a combination of the results most relevant to the keywords and the results most cited by students and other academics.
If the search results are not satisfactory, you can also search for journals using "Advanced search" which allows more specific search results. You can select this option on the sidebar of the main page.
2. Create a Personal Library
When browsing search results, you can save the articles you want to your private library. You do this by clicking the star-shaped icon under the search results. Articles that have been entered in the library can be accessed on the My library menu in the sidebar. You can also see a fairly comprehensive list of information about the article including the abstract. You can also put them under a label to arrange them with the same source.
3. Set Alert
For students who are researching developing issues, this feature is very useful to make it easier for you to follow any academic articles that have just been published. Scholar gives you the option to set up notifications or alerts when there are new search results related to specific keywords.
It's easy, select the Alerts menu with the envelope symbol in the sidebar. After that, click Create alert and enter your keywords in the Alert query. You can choose to see 10 or 20 search results that will be sent via email. So, you don't need to be left behind if a new article or book is published.
4. Get Related Articles
If you manage to find articles that are interesting and relevant to the topic you are looking for, you can search for related articles to get similar results. You do this by clicking the "Related articles" link at the bottom of the article.
Later, you will get search results related to the main article. For example, the search results will show articles by the same author, using the same keywords, or having similar titles.
5. Quick Quotation
When making a paper, thesis or thesis is probably the most tedious process is making a bibliography. But no need to worry because Google Scholar can help you quickly compile a bibliography.
You do this by clicking the quotation mark icon under the article. After that a window will appear with the citation in the desired format, starting from MLA, APA, Chicago to Harvard. You can copy and paste these results quickly into Microsoft Word.
Are you ready to complete your academic assignments with Google Scholar?