Using Google Scholar in the Best Way

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Using Google Scholar in the Best Way
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What is Google Scholar?
Google Scholar is an academic search engine. It
is a subset of the normal Google search. It
provides academic results including research
articles from reliable sources. It provides
results from the thesis, peer-reviewed journals,
books, university websites, academic
repositories, and professional societies. Google
Scholar is a free academic search engine with
various advantages and advanced options for
customizing search.
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What is the History of Google Scholar?
Google scholar was first released in 2004 and
from then new features are continuously added in
the search engine. In 2010, Google scholar alerts
were introduced while citations were launched in
2011. In 2012, a new user interface was
introduced along with the facility of getting
results in various formats. Saving of search
results in the Google scholar library for
logged-in users was introduced in 2013. In 2018,
Google scholar metrics were released for the year
2018.
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How the Results are Customized in Google Scholar?

• Search Results Through the search result
  options, the user may be able to set the number
  of search results per page, open each selected
  result in the new browser window, and can use
  links to import citations into BibTeX, EndNote,
  RefMan, and RefWorks through bibliography
  manager.
• Languages The search can be customized to obtain
  the results in the required languages. Presently,
  the search can be obtained in 13 different
  languages.

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• Library Links If you have access to any of the
  library, you can submit the name of the library
  and get library access links to have the full
  text of articles.
• Account Account setting may allow you to sign
  out or to use your previous search activity to
  get the relevant results.
• Button Google scholar button is an extension
  that needs to be installed. Google Scholar button
  allows you to look for papers as you browse.

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How to Use Google Scholar in the Best Way?

• Effective keywords Avoid using long sentences as
  your search query. Instead, make a list of unique
  keywords related to your requirement to get the
  most relevant results.
• Date preferences You can customize your search
  by inserting a range of years. This helps you in
  retrieving the most recent articles.
• Efficiently using the search options Google
  scholar provides various search options and you
  should use them effectively to narrow down your
  search. You can also use quotes to concentrate
  your search.
• Proper use of Boolean operators Google scholar
  allows the use of Boolean operators to customize
  the search. You should know the use of various
  Boolean operators such as AND, NOT, and OR.

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How Google Scholar more Effective than Normal
Google Search?
Google scholar search provides more relevant
academic search results as compared to normal
Google search. Unlike normal Google search, the
Google scholar search avoids the general articles
or articles from unreliable sources in the search
result. Further, the format of the search string
in Google scholar is quite similar to normal
Google search. This provides a more comfortable
experience for the user.
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What are the Important Features of Google
Scholar?

• Coverage Google scholar is one of the most
  powerful academic search engine that crawls into
  almost all the free libraries and is supported by
  various reputed organizations such as American
  Chemical Society and Elsevier.

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• Links to contents Google scholar also provides
  accessible links to the users for full text. It
  also allows the user to use this service with
  their credentials.
• Citation alert and support Google scholar
  provides citation support and alerts for those
  articles that are recently indexed by the search
  engine.
• Searching within the articles Google scholar
  also allows the user to search within the
  articles to retrieve a relevant article.

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What is Advanced Google Search?
Advanced Google search is an important feature to
narrow down the results of your search query. It
is important to note that you should familiar
with the advanced search options otherwise you
might skip the relevant articles.
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What are the Limitations of Google Scholar?

• The authenticity of articles to be judged by the
  user.
• Many of the articles provided by Google scholar
  are not free.
• The ranking of the article is not done by date
  but by relevancy.
• The quality of results depends upon the source
  from which Google Scholar extracts the
  information.

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What are the Various Other Alternatives to Google
Scholar?
There are various other alternatives to Google
scholar. Microsoft academic, launched in 2015, is
one of the strongest competitors of Google
scholar. Other academic search engines include
CiterSeerX, AMiner, CORE, BASE, and Semantic
scholar.
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