Google Scholar
Google Scholar is essentially a specialised web search engine that searches scholarly resources. It's like the science search engine, Scirus , in that it covers specific scholarly material as opposed to the web in general. Google Scholar uses the powerful Google searching algorithms, and when the results are displayed, it indexes the fulltext of results, links to related articles, and lists who the articles are cited by. So in general, Google Scholar sounds like the definitive cross-resource scholarly searching and linking engine! However, it's not perfect, and there are some very important caveats to keep in mind if you use it It doesn't distinguish between articles you have access to, and articles you don't . So a list of search results might display an article, but that doesn't mean that you'll be able to read it. If the Library subscribes to a database that's listed in the search results, when you click on the link, you'll be brought to the fulltext