Great place to start but can be missing articles. May also ask you to pay to read full-text.
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.
A worksheet to help you organize your search concepts and appropriate keywords and synonyms.
Identify the main concepts of your topic.
Brainstorm synonyms and alternative phrasings for each of your main concepts. Focus on using nouns and only use verbs or adjectives if necessary. Don't use minor words such as "the," "in," "on," or "of". Consider British as well as American spelling.
See if your subject database has specific thesaurus terms that relate directly to your search concepts. A database thesaurus will identify the proper terms to use in that database and will also suggest broader, narrower, and related terms for you to consider.
3. Learn how to combine search terms properly. Librarians call this "boolean searching"
from the University of Minnesota, Health Sciences Library
AND narrows a search - both terms must be present
OR broadens a search - either term will be present
NOT/NO eliminates items - one term is not present
4. Learn to use advanced search features such as truncation, phrase searching, and search limiting
Truncation: in many databases you can use an asterisk (*) to retrieve items with various word endings and spellings. For example: child* will find child, children, or childish. Other frequently used truncation symbols include a question mark (?) or a dollar sign ($).
Phrase Searching: most databases require quotation marks around the phrase. A phrase search will then locate only records containing the words in the particular order in which they appear. Example: "invasive species" instead of: invasive species
Limiting: many databases have advanced limiting features relevant to the subject. Check for limiting by year, publication type (e.g. research article or review article), gender, or age groups.
5.Follow the citations: find more studies by using citation searching.
Backward searching: look through the reference lists of articles you have found. The reference studies are likely to be quite relevant for you as well.
Forward searching: find articles that cite older articles. This allows you to move forward from a seminal work and discover what new research is based on that earlier research.
One More Tip!
Evaluate and modify your search as necessary. It’s a reiterative (and some would say never-ending) process.
Did you get what you expected to get from you search terms?
Did you too much information? Try these strategies:
Add another concept
Use only assigned keywords/topics results in major focus of the article (relevancy)
Search by a notable author
Use Limits: dates, gender, language, publication type etc.
Too little information? Try these strategies
Remove a concept
Use more general terms and don’t limit terms to assigned fields.
Try another database
Don't use limits
Are there other relevant keywords that are showing up in your results?
Are the authors accredited scholars and researchers?
How do you know when you are finished? When you are no longer seeing anything new in your searches, cited bys, and bibliographies!