Google Scholar can be a handy tool to use to find additional information such as: scholarly literature, some of which can be found in the library collection and some freely available; conference papers or theses.
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✦ Fast and easy to use - familiar interface ✦ Friendly searching—tells you if your spelling is incorrect, and suggests other searches ✦ Great for snowball searching ✦ A very broad search across a lot of material |
✦ No guarantee of full text access ✦ Won’t search every database ✦ Retrieves material that isn’t academic ✦ Search algorithm may not bring back the most relevant results |
Use double quotation marks to search for an "exact phrase".
Example: "climate change adaptation strategies"
This would find results that include the exact phrase "climate change adaptation strategies" instead of individual keywords like climate, change, adaptation, and strategies scattered throughout different parts of the text.
Exclude terms from the search using a minus symbol (-).
Example: "climate change adaptation" -policy
This search will find results that include the exact phrase "climate change adaptation" but exclude any results that mention policy.
Search within an exact time period to limit results to a select time frame.
Example: "climate change adaptation strategies"
After running the search, under the date section click Custom Range and then choose the range to limit to, for example, the past 5 years (2019-2024).
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On campus?
Links will automatically show "full text @CDU" for CDU-subscribed articles. Open link in new tab.
Off campus?
You need to change your settings so that Find it @ CDU links automatically appear within Google Scholar in your search results:
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