Google Scholar

Most of us use the internet to search for something almost everyday, and Google is one of the most common of the online search engines. The only problem, is the colossal heap of information, some helpful, some not, that is dumped upon your lap in .17 seconds. Chris Nolan, who is an Assistant Librarian here at Trinity, gave us some great tips to help narrow down our searches and get the best, most accurate information possible. One such tip he gave us was Google Scholar, an extra feature of Google that I personally had never even heard of. Google Scholar provides you with scholarly articles that are not often viewed through a regular search, but have far better, more reliable information. When you type in your criteria to search for in Google Scholar, many legitimate articles, books, magizines, scientific journals, news results, images, etc., pop up on your computer screen for you to use as actually valid information. And if you want to limit your findings to just books, Google has a subset of Google Scholar called Google Books which does just that; instead of articles, news and images, your results show only books. The internet can be an overwhelming place with the easy access to all sorts of information of varying degrees of truthfulness, thank goodness there’s a sure site to find good information on.