Before searching
1. Define your topic in precise words
2. Avoid words with multiple meanings
3. Translate words in other relevant languages
| Collect new keywords while searching. |
How to search
1. Ignore stop words (the, of, in, an…), lower/upper case letters and accents
2. Use quotation marks (" ") to search for exact phrasing
3. Forget truncation (* ?) in Google Scholar
4. Add operators to refine your search
5. Separate keywords with a single space
| Results are sorted by relevance according to Google's algorithm. Add &pws=0 to the end of a Google query URL to remove history-based personalisation. |
Get further:
After searching Google Scholar for a topic, author, or title, select "Review Articles" on the left to filter results to literature reviews or discussions related to your search. These provide relevant overviews of scholarship and approaches to your topic.
In the menu (
), click on Advanced Search (
):
Find articles...
Use operators to improve efficiency.
In the menu (), click on Settings (
):
| Find your affiliated library in the field. This will display the GetIt@IHEID or ViewIt@IHEID links in your search results. |