Tuesday, February 5, 2008

scholar.google.com

Google Scholar is a search engine for academic papers and documents, or "scholarly literature", as they put it. You can find many references for your "review of related literature" here, although many sites provide only abstracts and not the full text of documents. If you hit a dead end with an article that you can't read for free, search for related work of the authors -- maybe you'll find other sites that have more information.

This is also very helpful when your topic is something that is too current ("blogging habits of high school students", "social networks" etc) for your school library to have gotten good resources on it already.

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