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Scholar Search Tips. Get the most out of Google Scholar with some helpful tips on searches, email alerts, citation export, and more. Finding recent papers Your search results are normally sorted by relevance, not by date. To find newer articles, try the following options in the left sidebar: click "Since Year" to show only recently published papers, sorted by relevance;click "Sort by date" to show just the new additions, sorted by date;click the envelope icon to have new results periodically delivered by email.

Locating the full text of an article Abstracts are freely available for most of the articles. Click a library link, e.g., "FindIt@Harvard", to the right of the search result;click a link labeled [PDF] to the right of the search result;click "All versions" under the search result and check out the alternative sources;click "Related articles" or "Cited by" under the search result to explore similar articles. Getting better answers Searching Google Scholar It finds documents similar to the given search result. Literaturverwaltung — Amys Welt. How to Use Google Search More Effectively (Infographics) | MakeUseOf Geeky Fun. 100 Useful Tips and Tools to Research the Deep Web.

By Alisa Miller Experts say that typical search engines like Yahoo! And Google only pick up about 1% of the information available on the Internet. The rest of that information is considered to be hidden in the deep web, also referred to as the invisible web. So how can you find all the rest of this information? Meta-Search Engines Meta-search engines use the resources of many different search engines to gather the most results possible. SurfWax. Semantic Search Tools and Databases Semantic search tools depend on replicating the way the human brain thinks and categorizes information to ensure more relevant searches.

Hakia. General Search Engines and Databases These databases and search engines for databases will provide information from places on the Internet most typical search engines cannot. DeepDyve. Academic Search Engines and Databases The world of academia has many databases not accessible by Google and Yahoo! Google Scholar. Scientific Search Engines and Databases Science.gov. Literaturrecherche: So geht's richtig!