By: C.J. Whitaker Jr.

SUBJECT AREA

Basically Google With Scholarly

Literature

Many Disciplines And Sources

Examples: Articles, Theses, Books,

Abstracts, And Court Opinions

MAJOR FEATURES

Search all scholarly literature from one

convenient place

Keep up with recent developments in

any area of research

Explore related works, citations,

authors, and publications

Check whos citing your publications,

create a public author

Locate the complete document

through your library or on the web

Aims to rank documents the way

researchers do , weighing the full text
of each document, where it was
published, who it was written by, and
how recent it has been cited in other
scholarly literature.

YEARS CONTENTS PUBLISHED

2006, supposedly was created to be a

competitor with Microsofts Windows
Live Academic Search

BOOLEAN OPERATORS

Does Not Use Boolean Operators Like

EBSCO Host And Other Databases

Very Helpful With Getting Better

Articles In Search Engine

WHAT SEPERATES GOOGLE SCHOLAR FROM

OTHER DATABASES?