The truth is that nbsp;Google Scholar has become everyone’s crutch in college. You type any nonsense in there and it spits out a bunch of <a href="https://www.empresadeserviciosweb.com/servicios/artigo/”>articles for you to use as references. The thing is pricey because it pulls together work from every corner, even from those nobody has ever heard of.
Anyone who lives by publishing or needs to show their work to CNPq lives off Google Scholar Brazil. The version here has some interesting biases, it pulls a lot of articles from USP, Unicamp, and the humanities crowd loves it because back in the day you had to pay to access certain things. Not anymore, Google takes care of that.
The first step is to log into Google Scholar with your regular Google account. There’s no secret to it, but if you don’t log in, you lose the ability to save articles to your library. And look, saving is great because later you can find everything in one place, without having to redo the whole search again.
The real struggle is when you find the article but the full text isn’t available. Then you go hunting for that Google Scholar PDF. A lot of people don’t know this, but if you click the link on the right side of the article, sometimes there’s a PDF hidden there, straight from the university repository. Not always, but when it’s there, it’s a relief.
Doing a Google Scholar search without filters is a recipe for getting lost. If you enter a very generic word, it comes back with 500,000 results and most of them are useless. Better to go straight to advanced search and enter a specific title or an author you already know.
A big help is that you can set everything up in Google Scholar Portuguese. The Portuguese interface is pretty smooth, but look, English results will always show up first. If your thing is only national articles, you have to dig into the side filters to limit the language.
Anyone who works with Google Scholar Health lives in paradise. The health field is the one that deposits the most articles there, there’s everything. From half-baked case studies to respectable meta-analyses. The problem is there are a lot of paywalled articles, so you can only see the abstract and that’s about it.
And for those who think the whole thing is only on Google, Google Scholar SciELO is practically the same thing because SciELO indexes everything there. In practice, when you search on Scholar, you’re already scanning the SciELO database too. So there’s not much point in choosing one or the other.
