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ECS 300: Using Google Scholar

Venn diagram of our search

  • For further explanation and visuals of Boolean logic, click here

Using Google Scholar

  • IMPORTANT: To be able to access digital content from the U of R through Google Scholar, click here for Google Scholar access when you're off campus. You will then be asked for your U of R username and password. Your ID is your last name, without hyphens or spaces and in lower case, and your password is the barcode number (not student number) on your student ID card. Or you can use your U of R e-mail/URCourses/computer account ID and password instead
  • Or, from the regular Google page, click more at the top of the page, then Scholar
  • Searches scholarly books, book chapters, articles, and reports, some of which may be available online through free online journals and reports, or through some U of R databases
  • Click the little wheel icon in the top right of the screen: . This is Scholar's Options button
  • Click Scholar Preferences, especially when searching from home
  • At Collections, click in the box next to include patents to get rid of them
  • In the search box at Library Links, type: regina and click Find Library. This will tell Scholar to give you links to items that the U of R Library owns
  • Select University of Regina - Where Can I Get This? from the list that appears
  • Scroll down to the bottom of the page. At Bibliography Manager, click in the radio button next to Show links to import citations into and select RefWorks from the drop-down menu: this will allow you to download records of items you're interested in to RefWorks, save them there, and create bibliographies from them
  • Click Save Preferences
  • Back in the main Google Scholar page, click Advanced Scholar Search beside the Search button: here you can search by filling in the blanks with Boolean operators supplied for you
  • Works much like the regular Google Advanced Search
  • We’ll search for teaching methods for mathematics with aboriginal/first nations children
  • There are three concepts: teaching methods, mathematics, and aboriginal
  • The aboriginal concept has several possible synonyms
  • At with all the words, type: mathematics
  • At with the exact phrase, type: teaching methods
  • At with at least one of the words, type: "first nations" aboriginal indigenous
  • At Date  Return articles published between, type: 2009, then 2011
  • At Search only articles in the following subject areas, click in the box next to Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities
  • Click Search Scholar at the bottom of the page