Google Scholar is a free search engine for scholarly literature. Use it to find papers, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions from academic publishers, universities and repositories.
Search scholarly literature
Google Scholar is particularly useful for tracing citations, finding related work and discovering open access versions of papers. Pair it with our catalogue to locate print copies held in NLS branches.
Search tips
- Put exact phrases in quotation marks, for example
"reading culture". - Use author: to search by author, for example
author:Kapasule. - Use the date filters to limit results to recent research.
- Follow the cited-by links to find newer work that builds on an article.
- Check the NLS catalogue for print copies before you visit a branch.