HOW TO USE GOOGLE SCHOLAR

1. Use FINDIT links.
 

FINDIT shows you *all* of the ways to get our full text, not just what Google wants to show you.
 

• On the library home page, choose ARTICLES --> Google Scholar:
  
  
  
  
  
  If you start from the library home page, you will always see the little arrows.
   

• Click the little arrows UNDER the citation, and FINDIT@JHU will appear:
  
  
  
  

2. Fix Scholar so that you always see those FINDIT links.

• On your laptops and other devices, go to Scholar --> Settings (upper left corner) --> Library Links -->
  enter just "johns hopkins" --> click everything that comes up:
  
  
  

3. Save your time.

• In most databases including Scholar, it's best to use Advanced Search, to focus your search and save time:

Also,

• UN-check "patents" (unless you want them) and "citations" (these are usually ephemeral things that you won't be able to find)
• Always choose a date range

4. Easy export into a citation manager

• Find an article or other item in any database
• Copy its title
• Paste the title into Google Scholar and find that citation
• Under that citation, click the quotation marks

• Click "RefWorks" (which is at the bottom):

OR, if you ALWAYS use RefWorks, just configure Scholar so that it always sends your citations to RefWorks:  at the top left in Scholar, choose Settings, and RefWorks:

GOOGLE BOOKS

In your Google Scholar list of article results, you may also see books.

• If you click on the title, you will be taken to Google Books
• However, copyright law prevents them from showing you the whole book
• Search the library catalog for the book you want -- if we have it, you can see 100% of it
• If we do not have a book in any format, you can request it through BorrowDirect or Interlibrary Loan: 
  Library home page --> Get Materials