How Do You Find Scholarly Articles Online?
• Turn to Google Scholar. To begin with, this is a good place to search for scholarly works. It can be found at: http://scholar.google.com. It may have your own country’s URL ending though, so you can also simply google “Google Scholar” for the local return. This search mechanism provides you with the opportunity to search across numerous disciplines and sources. It searches journals, theses, abstracts, articles, etc. • Simple keyword searches may not be as beneficial in terms of returns as in the normal Google search engine. Try using the advanced search options to search for phrases, titles, authors, etc. • The returns in the search will be a list of citations in order of relevance (rather than chronologically as you usually get with academic article searches). When you click on one, it will give you publication information, such as the name of the journal, date of publication and the publisher. If you click on the article title, you’ll get more information and possibly be taken to a
