{"id":2336,"date":"2018-06-19T10:16:07","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T14:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/?page_id=2336"},"modified":"2018-08-23T11:34:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T15:34:37","slug":"google-scholar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/portals\/camed\/google-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"A Note on Google Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you complete your questions you may find yourself using the popular Internet search engine<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/?inst=11700586978546356267\">Google Scholar<\/a>, which can be a valuable tool for retrieving &#8220;gray literature&#8221; that may not be published in the journals indexed by other databases. However, search with caution and remember:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google Scholar&#8217;s results are numerous and not necessarily displayed in a helpful order. For example, an article from 1992 may be at the top of your results, while a 2016 article may not appear until 10 pages later. Additionally, while you can limit to specific year ranges, Google Scholar doesn&#8217;t allow you to simply order your results by date, author, etc., which many subscription databases do.<\/li>\n<li>The sources searched by Google Scholar are not disclosed, so you will never know exactly what information you are or are not searching.<\/li>\n<li>Google Scholar does return results from PubMed. However, some research suggests that PubMed results found by Google Scholar may be as much as a year out of date.<sup>1<\/sup><\/li>\n<li>Currently it is unknown how often Google Scholar is updated. Be advised that this means you may be missing critical recent literature.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For tips and hints for best searching Google Scholar check out:<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/intl\/en\/scholar\/refinesearch.html\">Advanced Scholar Search Tips<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>1. \u00a0 Giustini, D., &amp; Barsky, E. (2005).<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.library.ualberta.ca\/jchla\/index.php\/jchla\/article\/view\/22437\/0\">A look at Google Scholar, PubMed and Scirus: Comparisons and recommendations<\/a>. Journal of the Canadian Health Library Association: 26,85-89.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you complete your questions you may find yourself using the popular Internet search engine\u00a0Google Scholar, which can be a valuable tool for retrieving &#8220;gray literature&#8221; that may not be published in the journals indexed by other databases. However, search with caution and remember: Google Scholar&#8217;s results are numerous and not necessarily displayed in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9631,"featured_media":0,"parent":350,"menu_order":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2336"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4417,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2336\/revisions\/4417"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}