UL Library Systems, Applications and Online Services: Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes and provides access to scholarly literature across many disciplines.

Google Scholar describes itself as providing "a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research."

In order to be recognised by Google Scholar as being affiliated to the University of Limpopo, and UL Library subscription resources, you need to change your Google Scholar settings by doing the following:

1. Go to Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com) 
2. At the top right select 'Settings' 

        3. On the left side select 'Library links' 

        4. In the 'Library links' search box, search for 'University of Limpopo'

        5. Select the checkbox for University of Limpopo - Turfloop Campus  

        6. Click on the 'Save' button 

        7. Close and re-open your browser 

After this setup you will then be able to connect to electronic resources which the University of Limpopo subscribes, given that those resources are part of your search results. 

1. Select the Google Scholar option provided by the Library Quick Search tool, or click on this link
2. Type in your keyword and search
3. If UL Library has access to a retrieved resource you will see a 'Fulltext@Limpopo' link.
4. Click on the link to access the resource

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Major difference between Google Scholar and library databases:

(Yale Library, 2020)