Google Scholar Link from Databases A-Z
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. It is a search engine where you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
Google Scholar search options from UCF Library.
- Full Text @ UCF links to access sources at UCF Libraries.
- Bibliography (citation) manager options to export and manage citations (RefWorks or EndNote)
Understanding Google Scholar
Pros of Google Scholar
- Eases of use
- Search by cited feature
- Full text available with subscription
- Good source for grey literature
Cons of Scholar
- Full text available may not always the final publisher's version
- No limiter for just scholarly publications
- Limited option to limit or narrow search results
- Not everything is indexed in scholar
Semantic Scholar
Semantic Scholar provides free, AI-driven search and discovery tools, and open resources for the global research community.
Multidisciplinary scope
Semantic Scholar covers all STM and SSH disciplines including biology, medicine, computer science, geography, business, history, and economics. More than 200 million papers are sourced from partners such as PubMed, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, SAGE, Wiley, ACM, IEEE, arXiv, and Unpaywall.