Google Scholar
A simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.
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.
Users enter search queries and Google Scholar indexes and returns relevant scholarly articles, theses, books, abstracts, and court opinions from across the web.
students, researchers, and academics
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- launched
- Business model
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