Google Scholar – searching for articles and saving files
The most important functionalities
- free, commonly used tool gathering databases containing scientific publications and links to Open Access materials
- easy search for scientific articles and access to materials from various disciplines and sources
- intuitive operation, clear interface (following the Google pattern), many methods of searching the content (especially articles with a high impact)
- bibliography formatting according to a chosen style
- fast indexing of new articles
Recommended above all to university teachers and students:
- working on projects requiring access to the latest research results
- writing bibliography for their own papers as it includes a bibliography formatting system (MLA, APA, ISO 690) and generating records for reference managers (BibTeX, EndNote, RefMan, RefWorks)
- monitoring the state of research on a certain topic
- looking for a certain author’s papers