Help - With Google Scholar in Our Library

Google Scholar™ Coverage
Google Scholar™ is a subset of Google™. It covers a portion of the scholarly literature. Coverage appears to be strongest in science and technology. Google Scholar™ does not list what journals or publishers it covers, so it is impossible to know exactly what is being searched.. We recommend that you use Google Scholar™ only as a supplement to your searching of our Library Databases. Your results may contain items that are:

Duplicate or fragmentary
Not scholarly works at all (syllabi, newsletters, etc.)
Offers to sell you the item

Using the Library's Find It! system with Google Scholar™

Click on 'scholar preferences'.

1.	Type 'cal poly pomona' in the search box.
2.	Click on 'Find Library'
3.	When the check box appears for 'Cal Poly Pomona Find It!' click on that.

Click on 'Save Preferences'; return to searching. Click here to see how to use Find It!.

Narrowing your search

If you are getting too many results, you may want to narrow your search. This can be done by using the Advanced Search screen.

Limit your search terms to only appear in the title
Search exact phrases
Limit to an author, journal title, or date range

You can also limit by broad subject areas.

Google ScholarT Limit by Broad Subject Categories

Google Scholar™ Results Google Scholar™ indexes articles, reports, books and other documents. The amount of access to the full text of your results will vary. There are at least 6 types of results:
Full Text Documents Click on the document's title to access the full text.( As a general rule, always click on the title before any other links when using Google Scholar™).

Citation (with web search) An article citation will have a 'cited by' link that takes you to pages that have the full citation information. The 'web search' link performs a Google Search for that citation- which might lead to the full text of the item.

Citations to books will often have a 'Library Search' link, which will send you to Open World Cat™, a page that shows you what libraries own that book. Note: This feature does not always accurately reflect what the Cal Poly Pomona Library owns. To be certain, check the Library Catalog.

An Ordinary Book Record will also have a 'library search" link and possibly an 'SFX' link.

A Book Record for a Book in Google Print™ has a linked title that allows you to search for keyword occurrences within books, but you probably will not be allowed to read the entire book there. Use the 'SFX' or 'Library Search' links to locate the book.

Articles with the 'SFX-Full Text' Link: For citations for which Google is aware that the University Library has a subscription entitling Cal Poly users to full text, you will see a 'SFX-Full Text' link prominently displayed right after the title. If the title link doesn't get you the full text, then try the 'SFX-Full Text' link

Articles can have unpredictable amounts of information: clicking on a title may get you the entire article, just an abstract, or just a citation. If the title link doesn't work, the links to the web sites listed at the bottom might lead to full text. If not, try the 'SFX' link (if there is one).

The Cited By link will give you items that have cited this older article.

If you need to get copy of an article from a citation and are not able to use SFX, see Help - Finding Articles From A Citation. When you access Google from on campus, you will be able to get full text for a lot of the Library's subscriptions without using SFX.

Much of this page is based on the University of Tennessee Libraries Google Scholar FAQ and Using Google Scholar at the GSU Library.

This page is not affiliated with Google™ or Google Scholar™.

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