What is Google Scholar?
             Google Scholar is a simple way to search for scholarly literature. You can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. In some cases you get a full-text article, in others, just the abstract. For some complete articles, you may have to go to university or public library databases (with a student or card holder's login).

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• Vancouver Public Library
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• ERIC provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text.

How are articles ranked?
        Google Scholar aims to sort articles the way researchers do, weighing the full text of each article, the author, the publication in which the article appears, and how often the piece has been cited in other scholarly literature. The most relevant results will always appear on the first page.

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