Yes. Google Scholar is an easy to use research tool but it must be configured to search through library resources.
Google Scholar helps you find scholarly research on the internet through a broad search of scholarly literature using Google’s powerful search features. Using Google Scholar, you can find scholarly articles, official reports, theses, books, conference proceedings, abstracts, citations and more. Google Scholar is particularly good for finding official reports, government documents and other grey literature. To access full text, you have to use Google Scholar alongside the library to get all of the resources available which are relevant to your research.
It is very easy to configure your browser in 5 easy steps:
- Open your browser and navigate to Google Scholar - https://scholar.google.com
- Click on the three bars on the top left
- Click on the cog wheel
- Choose the third option - Library Links or Enlaces de bibliotecas
- Select the ECLAC library link shown and Click Save
Now that you have configured Google Scholar, you can conduct a search of the electronic resources found in Google Scholar and the paid resources subscribed to by the ECLAC Library.
In your results list, when you find a resource that you wish to look at and you click on this link Get it @ECLAC Library which accompanies the results list, you are able to access the full text of the resource immediately, if the library has a subscription to it.
Now that you have configured Google Scholar, you can conduct searches in both the library and on the web simultaneously. It's the power of Google applied to your scholarly research.
