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Explore engineering articles, patents, standards, and other information.
Best Ways to Use Google Scholar and Google Books
To find full text:
Make sure that you are on Hopkins wifi or otherwise logged in.
Go to Google Scholar.
Click the little arrows UNDER the Google Scholar citation, and FINDIT@JHU will appear:
You can 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:
Save your time.
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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
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 results, you may also see books.
- If you click on the title, you will be taken to Google Books
- However, copyright law usually 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
