Google Scholar
scholar.google.comA simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.
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About
Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes scholarly literature across many disciplines and formats, including articles, theses, books, abstracts, and court opinions. Users can perform basic or advanced searches filtering by author, publication, date range, and keyword placement. It serves as a central discovery tool for academic and research content from a wide range of sources.
Problem
Finding and accessing scholarly literature across diverse disciplines is time-consuming and fragmented.
For
students, researchers, and academics
How it works
Users enter search queries and Google Scholar indexes and returns relevant scholarly articles, theses, books, abstracts, and court opinions from across the web.
Business model
free
Status
launched
Company
Google