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Vendor:

Google

Brief Description:

Google Scholar is a specialized Google search engine that limits your search to scholarly material combed from Web sites, databases, and publication lists of the world's major academic publishers, scholarly and professional societies, and university repositories.

Full Description:

Google Scholar points to peer-reviewed articles, research papers, dissertations and theses, books and book chapters, edited volumes, and other scholarly materials published in a multitude of disciplines.

Google Scholar not only identifies these resources, but also leads to restricted or licensed materials that Helmke Library makes available only to IPFW students, faculty, and staff.

Because many scholarly materials are not freely available on the Web, IPFW now offers a handy tool called  that works to deliver these valuable goods directly to your desktop.

Follow these steps to configure Scholar Preferences within Google Scholar, where  appears as a hyperlink labeled FIND IT@IPFW:

• Go to the Google Web site, and choose the Scholar link under More
• Choose the Scholar Preferences link
• Type Indiana in the Library Links search box
• Check the box next to Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne - FIND IT@IPFW
• Select the Save Preferences button

Now try out a search in Google Scholar. View your search results and note the items that include the FIND IT@IPFW option. Here's what to do next:

• Select FIND IT@IPFW instead of the title link; clicking on the title may take you to the publisher's Web site but does not usually grant permission to access the article
• FIND IT@IPFW opens a window that shows your immediate delivery options: you may be able to access the full-text content (as a PDF or HTML file) in a database licensed by IPFW; you may choose to request the item from another library via Document Delivery Services; or you might want to make a photocopy from IPFW's print collections
• Also note that Google Scholar offers a Cited By link that takes you to other resources that cite the source document

Update Frequency:

Daily

Number & Type of Contents:

Peer-reviewed articles, research papers, dissertations and theses, books and book chapters, edited volumes, and other scholarly materials.

Geographic Focus:

Worldwide

Tools Available:

Google Scholar Help is available.

Type:

Abstracts, Databases, & Indexes

Subjects:

Accounting, African American Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Architectural Engineering Technology, Arts & Humanities, Audiology & Speech Sciences, Biography, Biology, Books, Business, Careers & Employment, Chemistry, Children's Literature, Civil Engineering & Civil Engineering Technology, Communication, Computer Engineering & Computer Engineering Technology, Computer Science, Construction Engineering Technology, Consumer & Family Sciences, Counseling, Courts, Criminal Justice, Dental Education, Early Childhood Education, Economics, Education, Electrical Engineering & Electrical Engineering Technology, Elementary Education, Engineering, Technology, & Computer Science, English, Finance, Fine Arts, Folklore, Foods and Nutrition, French, General & Multidisciplinary, Geosciences, German, Gerontology, Government, Health Sciences & Medicine, Hospitality & Tourism Management, Industrial Engineering Technology, Informatics, Information Systems, & Information Technology, Interior Design, Journalism, Labor Studies, Laws, Linguistics, Management & Administration, Maps, Marketing, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering & Mechanical Engineering Technology, Media & Public Communication, Music, Native American Studies, News & Current Events, Nursing, Organizational Leadership & Supervision, Peace & Conflict Studies, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Public & Environmental Affairs, Regulations, Religious Studies, School Administration, Sciences & Mathematics, Secondary Education, Serials (Journals, Magazines, Periodicals), Social Sciences, Sociology, Software Engineering, Spanish, Statistics & Facts, Systems Engineering, Theatre, Visual Communication & Design, Women's Studies, Writing (Creative, Professional, Technical)

Liaison:

P. Sandstrom

URL:

http://scholar.google.com/