Finding full-text articles on Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a more academic version of Google because it can be used to search for journal articles and other scholarly publications. If it is something you use regularly, you could be interested in adding quick links to UoB-owned resources to your results list.

1. Go to Google Scholar and click on the Settings link (near the top)
2. Click through to Library Links and type “Bedfordshire” in the search box
3. When the results appear, tick the box next to the result “University of Bedfordshire – UoB access”.  (You can uncheck any other libraries, if you have previously set them up)
4. Then click on the Save button (at the bottom of the page)

Now when you search Google Scholar, you will see “UOB Access” to the right of some results. When you click on this link, you can navigate to the full-text of articles from journals UoB subscribes to.

(If you are prompted to sign in with a choice between Shibboleth or Open Athens, pick Shibboleth and use your usual login. Or you can authenticate via a UoB library resource before you start and that should work for the duration of your search session.)

You can also use Google Scholar to export references into RefWorks or other reference management tools.

This Just a Minute video summarises some of the other ways you can get the most out of Google Scholar. But remember it is probably easier and quicker to use the DISCOVER search platform - which lets you pinpoint full-text resources quickly - on the  Learning Resources website