Library Guides: PL SC 468: Politics and the Media: Use LionSearch and Google Scholar

LionSearch Basics

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an integrated search of books, e-books, research articles, newspaper articles, and other publications.

For full text items, click the "full text online" link to go to the full text of the article.

If you see the Penn State "GetIt" menu and you need to click the word "article" to get to the full text.
If there is no "article" link, click the word "journal" to get to the journal page and look for the correct year, volume, issue and pages for the article you need.

Tip: Save the relevant sources into the LionSearch temporary folder by clicking on the small folder icon to right side of the item. When you are finished compiling your sources, click on the folder icon at the top of the screen and email or print (which allows you to copy into your clipboard) the references so you can easily add them to your project.

CAVEAT: computer systems make mistakes when auto-formatting.

Citation and Writing Guides
Double check your final paper against the appropriate Citation Style!

Don’t lose your work! Unless you sign up for Refworks, items are saved in LionSearch ONLY for your current session. You won’t be able to go back later and see a list of saved items.

Scholarly Articles in LionSearch

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Select Scholarly & Peer-Review under the Refine Your Search limits on the left.

Books in LionSearch

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Select Book / eBook under the Content Type limits on the left.

Google Scholar

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Limit your search in Google to just scholarly articles. Be sure to adjust your settings to choose the Penn State University which will provide links to full text content.
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Once you set your institutional preferences, links to full-text, if available at Penn State, should appear.

Using Google Scholar (2 min video)
The basics of using Google's articles search engine.