University Libraries

Google Scholar searches for scholarly journals, books, theses, conference papers, etc.

Some things to note:

• It lacks most of the search limiting functions of other article databases.
• Google does not make clear what journals it searches or excludes or what years are covered.
• Google's definition of "scholarly" may not agree with ours!
• Never pay for an article! C&P the title into Articles Plus to see if we have it. IF not, use Interlibrary Loan to request it for free.

Did you know?
• You can set  Google Scholar to find the full text of articles in OU Libraries:
  • Click on the icon.
  • Configure the settings like this:
  •  should show up in your search results. You may have to login to get to the full text.