3 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know about Google Scholar. This is a GradHacker post by Andrea Zellner, PhD candidate in Ed Tech/Ed Pysch at Michigan State University, @andreazellner Right now I am in the midst of being a teaching assistant for the Proseminar course in our doctoral program. As part of my duties, I was asked to show my favorite research finding tricks. Naturally, I crowdsourced my suggestions and through this process I found that not many people were familiar with some of my favorite Google Scholar hacks. What else to do but write it up for Gradhacker? So here we go: my top 3 things you probably didn't know about Google Scholar 1. Log in to Google Navigate to Google Scholar Click on "Scholar Preferences" Choose "Library Links" and search for your library and choose "Find Library" (Troubleshooting note: you may also have to be logged in to your library proxy to make this work, but there is help text on the Library Links page). 2. 3.
What are your favorite ways to find research? Websites Like - Find Related Sites and Tools. Search Education – Google. Finding Google Images For “Reuse” On my popular The Best Online Sources For Images list, I briefly describe how to search for images on Google that are licensed for “reuse.” Google says if you use it, its “results will only include pages that are either labeled as public domain or carry a license that allows you to copy or redistribute its content, as long as the content remains unchanged.” You can get fuller text description of how to use this option at Google’s site. In addition, Randy Rodgers send a tweet of screenshots showing how to access this feature, and I thought it would be useful to embed them here and also add them to my Images “The Best…” list. It’s a simple two-stop process:
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