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Google Scholar and Google Search Tips

Always connect to Google Scholar via the library website, either from the Databases List or from a Research Guide.
On Google Scholar, under Scholar Preferences, you can manually set your Google Scholar Library Links.

Click on the link to see tips and watch a short video

If you want ONLY results from an educational site, end your keyword search with site:.edu

If you want ONLY results from a government site, end your keyword search with site:.gov

If you want ONLY results from museum sites, end your keyword search with site:.museum

(Note: no spaces between colons and be sure to include the period after the colon)

To get ONLY results with PDFs, end your keyword search with filetype:pdf

To get ONLY results with PowerPoint, end your keyword search with filetype:ppt