Searching for Scholarly Research

In class we used many new search engines for scholarly information for our research projects.  One search engine I used was Google Scholar.  I’ll admit, it was very hard to find information using this search.  After typing in search keywords four or five different ways I still could not find much relevant information.  When searching on Google, it is much simpler to find examples, but not easy to tell if the source could be considered scholarly.  A constant difficulty I encountered is law cases.  Since my topic has to do with teachers and plagiarism a lot of searches ended up with 50 page court cases describing legal situations in perfect detail.  So it’s not going to be easy, but I am going to have to look harder for better research.