Google Scholar is one of many secondary search engines that Google has developed to make location of specialized information easier. Google Scholar searches across scholarly literature, including books, journals, reports and other types of academic publications. It includes some fulltext, if the fulltext is freely available.

Google Scholar will also link to academic publications that are available by subscription only. General Google users have to pay to view the fulltext of these articles, but the University of Manitoba Libraries and Google Scholar can give you direct access to our ELibrary collections through UMLinks.

Please Note that to use this feature of Google Scholar, you must either be at a University of Manitoba network computer, or go through regular off-campus authentication procedures for Elibrary, if you're using Google Scholar from home.

• Go to the Google Homepage at www.google.com
• Select "Scholar"
• You should see a search box like the one below:

• When you find an article or book you want to view, Google will link you directly via UMLinks to the full-text if it is available. You must use a University of Manitoba network computer, or be connected through our server.

• If the information is not available in full-text format, print the citation information (title of article, journal title, author, page numbers, etc.) and search for the item in BISON, the University of Manitoba Libraries Catalogue




Key Resources
How to Activate UMLinks in Google Scholar
Searching BISON for Journals
Google Scholar Help
Chat with a Librarian