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My Library
My library is a feature in Google Scholar that allows you to save articles from your search results for reading, printing, or citing at a later time. It works with any existing Google account, so you don’t have to create or maintain another login. (If you have multiple Google accounts, you’ll want to pay attention to which account is signed in when you save articles!)
While you are viewing search results and signed into your Google account, just click the star under the article you’d like to save. It will turn dark blue. Once you’ve saved a few articles, you can click the “My library” link in the upper right hand corner of the screen to view them in a list. You can search the list or label them with a topic or assignment.
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Coverage |
Google Scholar says it contains “articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.” |
Includes scholarly, newspaper, and magazine articles, books, book chapters, theses, and other sources. |
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Access |
Searching is free. Some articles have freely available full text, many more do not. Often, you will end up at a publisher’s website who would like to charge you for the article. (Don’t pay, articles can be obtained through interlibrary loan.) |
Your library pays for access to the databases, many of which have full text and all of which can be requested via interlibrary loan. |
