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Writing tools, support, and tips.
Best Ways to Use Google Scholar and Google Books
To find full text: use "FINDIT," which will take you to the library catalog.
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:
Sometimes the FiNDIT link appears to the right of the citation: 
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
