Skip to main content

Google Scholar: Home

Quick Help

Not finding what you need? Use the contact information below!

    Main Access Services Number:
    260.982.5364

    Text-A-Librarian:
    260.232.2755

  Email-A-Librarian:
  librarians@manchester.edu

   Ask-A-Librarian:
   Use the "send us a question" pop up

Research Consultations:
Librarian Contacts Found HERE

 Your Library Account:
 Renew Items & View Account HERE

Please Note: The text-a-librarian and chat services are available Mon - Fri, 8am - 6pm. Every attempt will be made to answer evening and weekend questions in a timely manner.   

Regular Library Hours:
Mon - Thurs: 7:45am - 12:30am
Fri: 7:45am - 7pm
Sat: 12:30pm - 5pm
Sun: 12:30pm - 12:30am

Google Scholar Search

About Google Scholar

About Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a specialized Google search allowing users to narrow results to scholarly literature including articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions. Results are either available freely on the internet, while others are available through library databases and interlibrary loan.

Google Scholar Pros

  • Ease of use similar to a Google web search
  • Connection to Manchester University subscriptions on/off campus
  • Search by cited feature and copy/paste citations
  • Researcher profiles available

Google Scholar Cons

  • Full text not available or restricted without subscription in some cases - $$
  • Proprietary ranking system
  • Citation information often incorrect
  • Lack of advanced search features in general

PALNI

Private Academic Library Network of Indiana logo

Adapted with permission from a guide created by a PALNI Task Force.
https://libguides.manchester.edu/googlescholar
libguides.manchester.edu
crawl=CC-MAIN-2019-30
37143
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:LFUQWX7JU3S24N3NOMTCYRWQPVWGZW66
<urn:uuid:3aa3bb4c-eeb7-43bd-bfd5-d95538e13e42>
2019-07-24T06:20:19Z
18.233.235.237
text/html
sha1:XWPP5NY34R7PPDQTGFM7Z73SPE7ZHKRK
<urn:uuid:f6dc204f-9aae-4e51-90be-b71b44877569>
https://libguides.manchester.edu/googlescholar
response
<urn:uuid:6b7859f5-4207-4805-a68c-f3ebd304be42>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-30
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for July 2019
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-157-130-49.ec2.internal
software: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/