About Google Scholar
Google Scholar searches the full text of millions of journal articles from thousands of journals... plus books, theses, patents, legal decisions, PDFs on university websites and other information on the web that Google categorizes as "scholarly."
It can be a great resource for finding journal articles, although it does not provide the fine-tuned searching capabilities of some of the specialized search tools.
Proxy Server Bookmarklet
- Proxy Server Bookmarklet- A cool tool that helps you access the library's subscription journals without having to pay for articles.
- Install it on your computer once, and use it anytime you see a link asking you to pay for an article.
- Once you log in as with your UM credentials, you will usually be brought to the actual article or an MGetIt link.
Google Scholar
Never pay for an article you find online!!! If you go to http://scholar.google.com from your personal computer, you will probably be asked to PAY for journal articles. Don't do it!
Access Google Scholar via the library's link, then validate yourself as a UM student. Do your search and you'll see "Availability at UMichigan" links in the results that will bring you to the articles FOR FREE!
Here's how the screen will look if you log in via the library:
