Google Scholar is a useful resource that searches across a wide range of academic literature. It pulls results from publishers, university research repositories and scholarly websites.
Use it to find the following kinds of material:
- Academic articles
- Theses
- eBooks
- Abstracts (from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories etc.)
Getting the most out of Google Scholar
When you are searching Google Scholar on-campus, lots of the journal articles etc. that you discover are available to you through Library subscriptions. This is because we’ve set up full-text access to our resource through Google Scholar within the university IP range.
We want you to get the most out of Google Scholar when you’re working from home too – so here’s how to configure it to allow access to Abertay Library’s subscriptions wherever you are.
You can also set-up Google Scholar to import citations directly into your favourite reference management tool *Remember, you can use whichever reference management tool you like but we will only offer training and support for RefWorks.
Configure your Settings
- Go to https://scholar.google.co.uk/
- Select 'Settings' from the top of the screen
- Go to Library Links, search 'Abertay' then select 'View It @ Abertay'
- Click the save button to keep your preferences
- Under the Search Results section you'll see 'Bibliography Manager'
- Under 'Show links to import citations into', select RefWorks from the drop-down meu
- Click the save button to keep your preferences