Medicine, Nursing, and Other Health Fields

Articles and information about medicine, nursing, pharmacology, and other health fields, as well as JH medical libraries and institutions.

Best Ways to Use Google Scholar and Google Books

To find full text:



You can fix Scholar so that you always see the links on the right to our full text.
  • On your laptops and other devices, go to Scholar --> Settings (upper left corner) --> Library links -->
    enter "johns hopkins" --> click everything that comes up:



Also:  save your time.

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

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Tip:

  • 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 one of the reference management tools at the bottom of the box:

OR, if you always use one of these, just configure Scholar so that it always sends your citations there:  at the top left in Scholar, choose Settings, Search Results, Bibliography Manager:

Google Books

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

  • However, copyright law usually prevents showing 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