Library Notes

What is Google Scholar?
Google Scholar is one of the many services of Google and it provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. You can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Because many of the full-text resources in Google Scholar are only available to subscribing institutions, the Google folks have provided a solution that makes it easier for you to access the electronic and print resources at Northwestern University when you are using Google Scholar.

How does it work?
You may have seen the Find it @ NU link while searching databases such as Ovid MEDLINE and Web of Science. Google Scholar has included this same link for NU users as a part of the Google Scholar search results. On-campus users will see additional links in Google Scholar search results which facilitate access to NU resources. These links lead to the library's servers which, in turn, direct them to the full-text of the article, when available.

Google Scholar

Off-campus users will need to set their Google Scholar preferences to include Northwestern University as a library link (see upper right-hand corner of Google Scholar search page). To access full-text, you will also need to be signed into the Galter Library Web site. Google Scholar is available at http://scholar.google.com/ or by choosing Scholar on the main Google page.