Searching for scholarly information
Google Scholar helps you find scholarly works, mostly articles. Google Scholar searches for your keywords in journals, papers, theses, books, and other scholarly literature. The results offer bibliographic information and suggest how to obtain the full text of a work.
The content and features of Google Scholar are described in About Google Scholar (opens in a separate window).
Presentation of scholarly information is far from being standard. For instance, one journal title can be spelled several ways. As a result, search gets a little fuzzy. In case of doubt, it's a good idea to try several variants of your search terms.
Search results are very informative and can serve as stepping stones for further search.
The Advaned Scholar Search page has no alternatives in search operators, except the author: operator.
The details of the Advaned Search page are described here.
Look closely at the results page. It has many useful features that will help you with search.
For example, author names on the left hand side of the results page, Recent articles link for recent research, and more.
Just enter your keywords and the publication name.
Check the boxes for the subject areas you're interested in searching.
Search by title
There is no operator for title search, but you can submit a title in quotations as an exact phrase.
Search by author
The author: operator limits search to author names.
You may need to try different spellings of an author's name.
Other ways to search by author are by enclosing the author's name with initials or first name in quotes and searching without the author: operator, or by using the form on the Advaned Scholar Search page.
The author: operator mixes well with standard Google search features such as + or - signs, etc..
