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Academic Skills: Research Guide: "How to" guides and videos

Resources to help with academic research, including databases, Google Scholar, how-to guides and discipline-specific resources.

Searching databases: finding newspaper articles

Searching Library catalogues

Setting up Google Scholar

If you use the standard Google Scholar site, you’ll often find results that aren’t freely available in full-text. To access more of the articles you need, change the settings in Google Scholar to link your results to the SLV's databases.

How to link into a Library's full-text subscription databases with Google Scholar

1. Go to scholar.google.com.au and click on Settings, which is the gear icon in the upper right-hand portion of the screen.

2. Click on Library links in the left-hand menu. 

3. Hit Save and conduct a search in Scholar.  Click the GetIt@Library link attached to each search result, which contains full-text links to the Library's subscriptions. You will be prompted to log in with your ID and password before being granted access to the full text.

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