Google Scholar
Apr. 12th, 2022 10:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI made a video for Class. I needed to create a brief (three minute) instructional tool that might be used in an academic library. (I ran over, but only by a minute!)
I started out with the idea, suggesting in the assignment description, of creating a guide for connecting Google Scholar to your institution's library account. As I worked though, I realized that I didn't have a good understanding of how Scholar is different from other searches and what situations it's good for. I decided to include a brief summary of that and started reading about the details.
I quickly realized that the topic was interesting, and helpful, in itself and could easily fill one of these small learning modules. We all probably know what Google Scholar is and may have used it before, but I found that neither I, nor Miriam (a post-doctoral researcher in the area of computer science) knew much about the the behind-the-scenes functioning of scholar. It's one of those tools that's really easy to use even without knowing a lot about it, but I think a little knowledge goes a long way toward making it work even better for you.
So my topic is Google Scholar, what it does, what to be careful of, and what it does for you. My audience is anyone working with academic literature, from undergrads to university faculty to professionals to curious laypeople.
Here's a link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1frvVJoL--KEfUj3GdcfpkeAO1MmBFuGW/view?usp=sharing
I started out with the idea, suggesting in the assignment description, of creating a guide for connecting Google Scholar to your institution's library account. As I worked though, I realized that I didn't have a good understanding of how Scholar is different from other searches and what situations it's good for. I decided to include a brief summary of that and started reading about the details.
I quickly realized that the topic was interesting, and helpful, in itself and could easily fill one of these small learning modules. We all probably know what Google Scholar is and may have used it before, but I found that neither I, nor Miriam (a post-doctoral researcher in the area of computer science) knew much about the the behind-the-scenes functioning of scholar. It's one of those tools that's really easy to use even without knowing a lot about it, but I think a little knowledge goes a long way toward making it work even better for you.
So my topic is Google Scholar, what it does, what to be careful of, and what it does for you. My audience is anyone working with academic literature, from undergrads to university faculty to professionals to curious laypeople.
Here's a link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1frvVJoL--KEfUj3GdcfpkeAO1MmBFuGW/view?usp=sharing
