Google Scholar: What is Google Scholar?

Google Scholar (scholar.google.com) is a free search engine that helps you find scholarly articles, theses, books, and other academic resources. It’s a great tool for college students because it searches a wide range of academic sources and shows results from many disciplines. You can use it to discover reliable information for your assignments and research projects, and often you’ll find links to free full-text versions of articles. Just type in your topic or keywords, and Google Scholar will show you a list of relevant scholarly works.

While Google Scholar contains links to many types of scholarly resources, not all of them are available to the general public. However, there are cases in which you can get links to the full text of journal articles, book chapters, and more. These include:

• The OSU Library subscribes to the journal
• The article is published in an open access journal, which means it is available to the general public at no charge
• The author has made the resource available on their website

Anyone can use Google Scholar, but OSU students, faculty, and staff can use it to access content that is provided to OSU by linking their Google Scholar account to the OSU Library.