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.
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.
Finding information on the World Wide Web is one thing, trusting it is another. You must be a critical consumer of materials you find on the Web. Quality and validity are not guaranteed when anyone can publish anything, anytime, without the benefit of scholarly peer review. Use this guide to analyze the web sites you find.
