LibGuides: UGS 303: Science, Technology, Politics / Wellhausen: Google Scholar

What is Google Scholar?

Google Scholar is able to search 'the deep web' where many of our subscriptions live.

This does not mean everything on Google Scholar is 'free'. It can pull results from our holdings, but unless you are signed into our subscriptions with your EID/password, you cannot access the full articles.

Not everything on Google Scholar should be considered scholarly and there is no way to use the search to limit to scholarly. Like all Google products, the algorithm is proprietary, so I can't tell you how the results are pulled and from where.

What I advise is that you evaluate each source on its own merits. See page at left for help with evaluation or contact a librarian.

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Use this link to access Google Scholar, especially off campus as it authenticates you as a UT user.
Google Scholar uses the popular Google search engine to enable searches for scholarly materials such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from broad areas of research. It includes a variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Google Scholar includes full text and citations.
Use this link to access Google Scholar, and see our Google Scholar Guide for information on using this resource.
If you encounter a warning about the security certificate when using the FindIt@UT tool in Google Scholar, you can learn more about that using this guide.