LibGuides: How to Use Google Scholar: Get the Full Text (2024)

FAQs

How do I get full text on Google Scholar? ›

If you click an article's title, you may be taken to a publisher's site that will ask you to pay for full text. Instead, look for a PDF or HTML link to the right of the article. This is a free, full-text copy.

Google Scholar is a search engine of Google that provides full-text of the articles subscribed by the library or full-text to the free articles. Scholar also provides articles from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, and scholarly articles posted on the web.

If you have searched PubMed (or accessed PubMed through a web link) and located a citation of interest, check for full-text icons in the upper right corner of the display above the citation. Some full text articles may be free, for example those archived in the PubMed Central^® (PMC) database.

Databases are highly organized and allow students to search for information on a topic by keyword, subject, author, title, and phrase. Many databases at Clovis Community College provide access to full-text content, which means that you will find entire articles, not just summaries or citations of articles.

The quality and reliability of the sources indexed by Google Scholar can vary widely, and not all sources that appear in search results are peer-reviewed or credible. Therefore, it is important to carefully evaluate the sources you find, especially if you plan to use them in your own research.

What are the limiters in Google Scholar? ›

Sorting Results

After searching in Google Scholars, there are limiters on the left side of your search results. These limiters are there to help narrow your search results to a manageable number (between 30-80 sources).

To access the advanced search option, click on the three line icon in the upper left corner of the Google Scholar search page. Click on Advanced search.

Its activity, however, is illegal, because it infringes the copyright of the publishers.

Full-text refers to the entire text of an article, instead of an abstract or short summary.

For those available in full text, beneath each article in your results list you will find a Full text link. Where the journal has been fully digitised you will see a Full text - PDF link. ProQuest databases also index some open access journals.

Google Scholar has a 256 character limit for searches; Google limits to 150 words.

Google Scholar is not comprehensive

It is only searching and skimming what it finds on the Web within a particular context. Whether or not you are logged in may make a difference. Most content in Google Scholar is from 1995 on, although they will have some content from earlier years.