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A Scholarly Google.

On Monday we used Google Scholar, while using Google scholar I tried a simple search for my topic and it turned up several results that I did not see in a regular Google search.  Google scholar also showed me citations that I in turn used to track down the full articles.  I also used EasyBib to store some of the locations for the articles and journals that I found, EasyBib did also allow me to evaluate some of the websites addresses by telling me whether the website was credible or not.  Google Scholar was nice to use but I still prefer the likes of EBSCO and Lexis Nexis academic, maybe it’s because I have spent a little more time with them but I like the way they let you narrow your search so you can choose from journals, newspaper articles to just court cases.

Scholarly Search

When I searched google scholar for atricles on my topic, I quickly used quotations and “AND” to make my search more specific. The sources I got from google scholar were a lot different from regular google searches. A regular search gave me a lot of news articles, which are opinionated to a point. However google scholar gave me articles that were more analytical and factual than a news article. Although it was harder to find more relevant articles, I did find a very good article on Lexis Nexis that I’m sure I will be using.