Library Guides: PLSC 1: American Politics: Principles, Processes and Powers: Google Scholar

Google Scholar

Google Scholar
Limit your google search to just scholarly literature. The short video below has some tips and tricks and shows how to link google scholar to Penn State's full text resources.
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.

Connecting Google Scholar to your library account

Video: Connecting Google Scholar to your Library Account: A Tangent. You may notice when you click on a title in your results list that the site may ask you to pay to access this information. As a member of Penn State, you should never pay for a resource using Google Scholar. The following video shows you how to select and save your settings in your browser.

Go ahead and open up Google Scholar and follow along.