Definitely, the information that we are going to extract from Academic Google (in English, Google Scholar ) deserves a reminder. Contents and academic literature ; free books, notes, magazines, scientific journal articles, citations, summaries...etc. We will not find it anywhere else part.
An example; for the search for “architecture” we have access to more than 900,000 books and articles mostly in free format.
Not bad at all if we compare it with other dedicated portals to content curation or specialized in scientific bibliography and academic .
If at the time we already saw how to find Doctoral Theses for our different projects. Now we want to show you a tool that, although unknown to some, in reality is a immense digital library where free academic information and in many quality cases awaits us for your consultation and download.
An ICT application for both teachers and users who represents a bibliographic search engine and teacher , so let's see… What's the point of Is google academic useful? And how can we search simple.
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It is an instrument or tool based on a web search engine bibliography of education and culture in all fields. It's the scientific google !
The search engine lets users search for studies or texts reviewed by specialists, bibliography specialized, theses, journals, summaries, books and articles from sources. All information is extracted from academic publishers, professional societies, libraries, repositories of preliminary prints or good universities.
The Google Scholar Library (Referred to in English) searches different sources from a a single platform, finding citations , books , documents academic papers , abstracts scientists and full-format articles through each other's personal library or on the same network.
As if that were not enough, he is able to get information about notes academics that are “the stuff” in a field of determined scientific research.
In the following scheme we can perceive what we are going to find in spanish…
You have to take into account that this platform, unlike from generic search engines or repositories that discoverable on the Web. When you start a session, allows you to show that the results are sorted by bibliographic relevance and usefulness .
In addition, we will have educational documents available with supporting links in the main index; resources such as scientific articles in Spanish and even English, Thesis… etc. It is a virtual campus of the knowledge with thousands of PDFs to train and investigate!
To understand the advantages of operation of this bibliographic search engine . Although it is not necessary be registered to locate the data on the Google Scholarly Articles , yes that's convenient because that way we can save the resource… How to search in the bibliographic database?
When we enter from HERE to locate data (Search initial – Let's remember the name in English Google Scholar by the URL that appears):
First it will return a « search simple « , that is, putting any phrase or word in the search box. In particular, we must have a series of considerations unlike the locator traditional :
This video explains the keys to investigate in this browser …
We can rummage by default, remembering that Google Chrome will recognize the country where we are and the results will be according to relevance and references or in advanced search where we can identify more features. Two tricks… We can use the operator
On the right side of the search engine we find other tabs of interest that provide us with research options:
We can identify the search language of google education , the number of results or according to the number of quotes.
Shows us results by categorization and relevance within the platform itself.
The Google Scholar Alerts is a great tool in which we can configure with a Email the power to be updated about the topics, news, and authors that interest us.
Track citations to your posts. Appears in the search results of
It is used to save the documents that we have found in a search of interest as well as those documents in which that we are the author.
Many researchers and students find material for their projects and studies . The portal indexes libraries, publishers, bibliographic databases, repositories, links to books, scientific journals, conference papers, dissertations, scientific-technical reports…etc . It's a great scholar and online dictionary of knowledge!
In the following image we can identify an example of Google Scholar search:
As we see in the database bibliography , we have complete books in PDF and sorted by date, year or if it is included in any patent or citation scientific .
To add a book or article to the Google portal chrome , first, we have to create an account with our "Google+" profile and add data of the "user scientist". But let's see a tutorial on how to create a researcher profile in Google Scholar …
Next, we have to take some considerations into account so that our documents can be recognized in the library :
In the documentation classification, take into account factors such as the full text of each article, the publication site, the name of the author and the frequency with which it has been cited and relevant citations, in other specialized sources of the same industry .
The most relevant references and citations appear at the top of the page, in the same way that happens with searches before Google. In addition, it has a box personalized search engine on the occasion of a greater effectiveness and precision of results.
Remember the following tutorial to improve the positions of the document you upload
It is important to note that documents that have more citations or citations will be the first appear in searches since it is understood that they are the most relevant.
The dating frame on Google academic let the authors make simply track the citations of your articles.
You can check who cites your posts, create a graph citations over time and calculate multiples kinds of dating statistics. Definitely represents an educational tool that can help greatly in obtaining information from quality.
Actually, you have other options that are also interesting but that are outside Google Universitario as some call it, for example, the Google advanced searches , which returns very exact data and that few of us practice. (It's like the search engine normal, but in the advanced version)
We can find an infinite number of books and documents of all the themes that we can imagine, is to have a “scientific Google” at home. So try it!
This last information is taken from an article in the present portal about we learn how to find books of free architecture on the net, which is actually applicable to any theme since we show portals to find free academic books and search techniques.
Another project we already talked about was the street view of Google maps before urban planning to recognize changes in the cities, or the interesting Google Earth for the presentation of projects.
In short, we want to remember a tool that It can be of great help when it comes to detecting and selecting information for our architecture projects, media environment or any other sector.
