Google Scholar is definitely one of the best academic search engines out there. I usually use it as a springboard to initiate scholarly searches around particular topics of interest. It is also a great platform for reference mining. Google Scholar provides a wide range of important features that allows you to get way more than results for your search queries. The visual below outlines 6 interesting tips to help you make the best of Google Scholar. More specifically, these tips are how to:
- Refine your keywords
- Search for articles by specific authors
- Search for articles in a specific publication,
- Search for articles published within a specified timeframe
- Create Google Scholar alerts
- Locate the full text of an article.
