FYS 120L: Animals & Society

Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com) is a free search engine which scours the web for academic publications, such as: journal and conference papers, theses and dissertations, academic books, pre-prints, abstracts, technical reports and other scholarly literature.

One benefit of using Google Scholar is that the search engine is configured like the general Google web search, making it a familiar process for most users. Another benefit is that it searches for a wide variety of information resource types and provides citation information. 

Some drawbacks of using Google Scholar is that the search results may include unpublished, non-scholarly, and/or non-peer-reviewed information, and there isn't a way to limit those types of results, which can make it difficult to know whether a specific resource is appropriate for your assignment. Also, many of the results in Google Scholar will not include full-text access, which means you may still need to use library databases or resource sharing in Catalyst.

There are two options for locating full-text materials identified in a Google Scholar search: using the Library Links feature in Google Scholar or using the LibKey Nomad browser extension.