1. Google Scholar Google Scholar allows the researcher to search for scholarly articles on a broad range of subjects.

2. Google Scholar Includes Google Scholar includes articles, books, theses abstracts and court opinions. It is a database, but the library’s databases should also be used in most cases.

3. Google Scholar Includes Some academic publishers, some professional societies, some online repositories, and a limited number of web sites.

4. Weighing Citations in Google Scholar Google Scholar wants to rank documents just as academic researchers rate citations, weighing the full text of each document, where it was published, who wrote it, and how often it has been cited.

5. Getting to Google Scholar To get to Google Scholar, one can go to google.com and then click to an address for Google Scholar. Or, one can go directly to Google Scholar by using the following web address: http://scholar.google.com

6. Search Using Google Scholar, one can search by the author, title, and subject. To search by author, place the author’s name in quotes following the word author: for example – author:”author’s name” To search by title of an article, place the entire title in quotation marks.

7. Publication Using the advanced search, it is possible to restrict results to only a specific publication.

8. Court Opinions To search for legal information, a user can choose Legal Opinions and journals. In the advanced search, the user can search for court opinions from a particular jurisdiction.

9. Category Search Using Google Scholar’s advanced search, it is possible to search for items related to a specific broad area. Please note: the areas are very broad.

10. Email alerts It is possible to obtain periodic email alerts on a specific topic. To do this, click on the envelop icon on the green bar below the search results.

11. Cited Using Google Scholar, the user can see when an article has been cited. Simply click on the cited by link.

12. Bibliography Manager Google Scholar includes a Bibliography Manager. A user can set preferences as to the citation format

13. Limitation Google Scholar is limited to 1000 citations on a particular subject. The user can try formatting a different search to reveal other citations. As a matter of fact, the search might prove to be too general as written.