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Why use Google Scholar?
Google Scholar
Q: Why use Google Scholar instead of Google?
A: It searches for scholarly literature on the Internet.
Search Tips
For Google Scholar search tips, check the following tabs.
Advanced Search
Click on the drop down menu arrow on the far right of the search box to use Advanced Search in Google Scholar.
File Type Search
To search for a specific file type: e.g. doc, enter your search term and filetype:doc.
Use polystyrene packaging filetype:pdf to find results that are pdf documents on polystyrene packaging in Google Scholar.
Site Search
Searching for a specific kind of site
To find educational or government sites, type in your search term and one of these: site:ac, site:edu, site:govt, site:gov. Please also check the Finding Official Information page in the online tutorial.
Finding a term in a title or url
To find the term in the title of a page, type in allintitle:polystyrene.
To find the term in the url, type in allinurl:polystyrene . Use the limit date, usage rights, numeric range, and more under Advanced Search.
Check the Google site that describes these and other ways of refining your Google search
Beware
Google Scholar is not comprehensive - you won't find everything. There may not be much recent content, not everything is available full-text, and some content isn't scholarly.
University of Auckland Library databases can provide more focused or in-depth results due to better coverage, quality control and search functionality.
Activity:
Using the embedded website below, find the conference paper from Google Scholar which describes this project.
Seidel, M.C., Shahbazpour, M., & Tedford, J.D. (2007) Sustainability in practice: A case of environmental packaging for ready-to-assemble furniture. In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Sustainability Engineering and Science, University of Auckland, 21-23 February, 2007. Auckland, New Zealand Society for Sustainability Engineering and Science. 11p.
