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BA214 - Business Communications: Using Google Scholar

Articles to use for BA214 assignment

Using Google Scholar

Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com/) is a special search in Google that looks for scholarly journal articles, books, patents, and technical reports or white papers. You can set up Google Scholar on your computer so that it will link to e-journal articles in the library's collection.

Use the Google Scholar search space to search, just as you would in the regular Google search. Since you are searching for scholarly sources, it is best to use more formal or specialized terms to search, for example "adolescents" instead of "teenagers," or "Puma" instead of "cougars."

Setting Up Google Scholar

You can set up your Google Scholar to find Chemeketa e-journals articles.

Follow these steps to have Google Scholar results show Chemeketa e-journal articles:

  1. Go to https://scholar.google.com
  2. Click the Options button (hamburger menu).
  3. In the options menu, choose Settings.
  4. In Scholar Settings, click on Library Links.
  5. Use the search space to look for Chemeketa.
  6. Select Chemeketa Community College - full text articles  and ProQuest Fulltext from the results.
  7. Don't forget to click the Save button.

How to Use Google Scholar

picture of google scholar search results screen, showing the main results, the available links, and the date limiter

In the Scholar results page, the journal article links at the right that say either "Full text @ Chemeketa" or [filetype] from [URL], as in "[PDF] from umich.edu," are the ones that are available to you without cost.

Book results are indicated by [Book] before the title and are linked to Google books, which may or may not have the full text available. Since Google doesn't know what books Chemeketa has, it's worthwhile to use Library Search to see if the book is available at Chemeketa or another regional academic library.

If the item is not available in print or online through Chemeketa's library or its partners, you can fill out an Interlibrary loan form.

You can limit results by publication date by using the date filters at left of search results.