1. Tuesday Tech Talks Skeen Library Presents Today’s Topic: Presented by:
Weekly drop-in sessions to improve information literacy.
Today’s Topic:
Google Scholar
Presented by:
Liz Lyons

2. What you will learn today!
What Google Scholar is
What Google Scholar isn’t
Set Up
Search Tips and Tricks
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3. What is Google Scholar?
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A very powerful search engine that specializes in the retrieval of journal articles, conference proceedings, books and other scholarly work instead of websites.

4. What is Google Scholar? Benefits: It’s free!
Full-text or metadata indexing
Covers a wide variety of fields and disciplines
Excellent source for preliminary research
Citation analysis
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5. What Google Scholar isn’t.
Limitations:
It’s free, you wont have full text access to everything
At the end of the day it’s a search engine
High recall, low precision
Search refinement is limited
Computer Curated vs. Human Curated
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6. Google Scholar: Set Up
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7. Google Scholar – Set Up Log into your google account
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8. Google Scholar – Set Up
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9. Google Scholar – Set Up
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10. Google Scholar: Search Tips & Tricks
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11. Google Scholar – Standard Search
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12. Google Scholar – Standard Search
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13. Google Scholar – Standard Search
Shows all material that is related to this subject area.
Displays all work that have cited this book
Saved to My Library
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Displays all editions of a particular work.

14. Google Scholar – Search Tips & Tricks
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19. Google Scholar –Search Tips & Tricks
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21. Google Scholar – Search Tips & Tricks
Boolean Operators
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22. Google Scholar – Search Tips & Tricks
Operator
Example
Description
DEFINE:
DEFINE: conspicuous
Will retrieve the definitions of a word from a dictionary.
site:
croup site: webmd.com
Will search within a particular site.
intitle:
intitle: vibration
Term must appear in the title of the document
allintitle:
allintitle: vibration, instrument, aircraft
All terms must appear in the title of the document
intext:
intext: waterfall
Term must appear in the text of the document
inurl:
inurl: vibration
Term must appear in the url.
allinurl:
allinurl: Socorro, mine, gypsum
Terms must appear in the url.
related:
related: webmd.com
Will find related sites
link:
link: nmt.edu
Lists all websites that link to the website you searched for.
AROUND(number)
hikingAROUND(30 miles)albuquerque
Proximity search
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23. Tuesday Tech Talks November 28th Skeen Library Presents Today’s Topic:
Weekly drop-in sessions to improve information literacy.
November 28th
Today’s Topic:
Presentation Prep
Presented by:
Liz Lyons