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

What you will learn today! What Google Scholar is What Google Scholar isn’t Set Up Search Tips and Tricks Content Source

What is Google Scholar? Image Source:http://nu.kz.libguides.com/google/scholar A very powerful search engine that specializes in the retrieval of journal articles, conference proceedings, books and other scholarly work instead of websites.

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 Image Source:http://nu.kz.libguides.com/google/scholar Content Source: http://nu.kz.libguides.com/google/scholar

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 Image Source:http://nu.kz.libguides.com/google/scholar Content Source: http://nu.kz.libguides.com/google/scholar

Google Scholar: Set Up Content Source: http://infohost.nmt.edu/~nmtlib/

Google Scholar – Set Up Log into your google account Image Source:http://nu.kz.libguides.com/google/scholar Content Source: http://nu.kz.libguides.com/google/scholar

Google Scholar – Set Up Image Source:http://nu.kz.libguides.com/google/scholar Content Source: http://nu.kz.libguides.com/google/scholar

Google Scholar – Set Up Image Source:http://nu.kz.libguides.com/google/scholar Content Source: http://nu.kz.libguides.com/google/scholar

Google Scholar: Search Tips & Tricks Content Source: http://infohost.nmt.edu/~nmtlib/

Google Scholar – Standard Search Image Source:http://nu.kz.libguides.com/google/scholar Content Source: http://nu.kz.libguides.com/google/scholar

Google Scholar – Standard Search Image Source:http://nu.kz.libguides.com/google/scholar Content Source: http://nu.kz.libguides.com/google/scholar

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 Image Source:http://nu.kz.libguides.com/google/scholar Content Source: http://nu.kz.libguides.com/google/scholar Displays all editions of a particular work.

Google Scholar – Search Tips & Tricks Image Source:http://nu.kz.libguides.com/google/scholar Content Source: http://nu.kz.libguides.com/google/scholar

Google Scholar – Search Tips & Tricks Image Source:http://nu.kz.libguides.com/google/scholar Content Source: http://nu.kz.libguides.com/google/scholar

Google Scholar – Search Tips & Tricks Image Source:http://nu.kz.libguides.com/google/scholar Content Source: http://nu.kz.libguides.com/google/scholar

Google Scholar – Search Tips & Tricks Image Source:http://nu.kz.libguides.com/google/scholar Content Source: http://nu.kz.libguides.com/google/scholar

Google Scholar – Search Tips & Tricks Image Source:http://nu.kz.libguides.com/google/scholar Content Source: http://nu.kz.libguides.com/google/scholar

Google Scholar –Search Tips & Tricks Image Source:http://nu.kz.libguides.com/google/scholar Content Source: http://nu.kz.libguides.com/google/scholar

Google Scholar – Search Tips & Tricks Image Source:http://nu.kz.libguides.com/google/scholar Content Source: http://nu.kz.libguides.com/google/scholar

Google Scholar – Search Tips & Tricks Boolean Operators Image Source:http://nu.kz.libguides.com/google/scholar Content Source: http://nu.kz.libguides.com/google/scholar

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 Image Source:http://nu.kz.libguides.com/google/scholar Content Source: http://nu.kz.libguides.com/google/scholar

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