Google Scholar searches across academic sites including publishers, universities, professional societies, online repositories and research organisations to give you access to a wide range of scholarly content. These include journal articles, e-books, conference proceedings, theses and more.
It offers:
- Broad subject coverage - complementing specialist health databases
- Full-text indexing (i.e. searching across all the words in articles or chapters) - very useful for hard to find information topics
- Access to 'grey literature' not indexed elsewhere
- Citation linking (to identify the most influential research impact and enabling 'cited by' search functionality)
- Options to set up alerts, export to Endnote, save articles into a Library and more
- Personal research profiles to promote your work and track your citations
