Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a free and advanced version of 'web search engine' by Google which is only designed to search scholarly literature across the web. Google Scholar is become online in November 2004 and slowly growing its popularity. Many of us are unaware that such kind of search engine is also provided by Google, basically it is most useful tool for students, teachers, scientist and any person on earth planet who want to gain information from journals, technical reports, theses, books etc. Google Scholar helps you to narrow down search result and find relevant work across the web in the world of scholarly research and provide better result in the form of 'Citation'.

As Google Scholar in not like regular web search engine its features slightly differ from other web search engines. Google Scholar is NOT built to bring videos, news, images in its search result for any 'Search Query' but it bring out Most Relevant scholarly literature across the web and libraries and that is beauty of this scholar Google which definitely help to find most relevant & relevant information.

When it comes to features of advanced Google Scholar following thing comes promptly in mind:-

1. It can Search diverse sources from one convenient place
2. Helps to Find articles, theses, books, abstracts or court opinions
3. It also Locate the complete document through your library or on the web
4. Learn about key scholarly literature in any area of research

Any one who can able to search with Google web search engine can easily use ‘Google Scholar’; it’s not a big deal but still there are few specific techniques that we need to understand to search better result with Google scholar which are I highlighted below.

1. Searching with a ‘Phrase’- It is as like using regular Google web search, here in view to search a specific phrase what we need to is to “Enclose that phrase in Quotation mark” ( same as I did here). Phrase is nothing but a combination of many words together like “ABCA12 Proteins”. This help to narrow your search and to bring more relevant search results.
2. Search with ‘Title’- Using operator “intitle:” will help to bring the results whose title includes your given keywords. Example- search with intitle:ABCA12 Proteins ……and see the results that comes out and one can found that ABCA!@ Proteins are underlined in each title.
3. Search with ‘Author’ name- One can use "author" query to search with an author name of any article or books.
4. Advanced Search- Same like regular web search Google added advanced search option in Google Scholar. One can find more about it at Google's own website about Google Scholar Advanced Search

Google Scholar is a different search engine than regular web search and it brings only articles and research papers and mostly text document but its pattern to bring out search result are as same as Google web search engine, here also Google brings out most relevant search result and documents at the top of search result page

In blue color one can see the Title of article and below the title found details of article like publication information, including the journal name, date, and publisher of that given article. Once you clicks on the title of article Google will take to that article to provide what you looking for.