Google Scholar- A great search tool for effective research

Doing research is a common activity found in every classroom today. In the schools I work in, most of that research is being done digitally, on Chromebooks or tablets. With the overwhelming amount of resources out there, how can one be sure they are effecting researching? A great starting point is found within Google called Google Scholar.

Within Google Scholar users can freely search an abundance of scholarly literature consisting or articles, references, citations, patents. case law and more. A great feature of Google Scholar is that users can create "Alerts" for search queries and receive an email when something comes up. Secondly, within the "My library" section users can save articles for later use. There's even a My Citations section that will search and find and save any articles written by you, the user!

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