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Getting the most out of Google Scholar Workshop

Google Scholar Workshop Program

Welcome to the Getting the Most out of Google Scholar workshop

Facilitated by Kate Langan, Associate Professor,University Libraries

The workshop will be a guided practice session. I will share my screen as I walk you through following topics: 

  • overview Google Scholar, what it searches, how it ranks results, and how to access articles
  • linking google scholar to WMU Libraries 
  • overview of basic and advanced search strategies 
  • understanding the results list and how to manipulate it 
  • three main ways of accessing articles 
  • organizing and saving results using the Google Scholar "My library"

URLs we will be using: