Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines
OVERVIEW
Google Scholar is a powerful index of scholarly literature across disciplines, languages, time periods, and publishing formats.
It's noted for quickly surfacing highly cited peer-reviewed articles, as well as:
- abstracts
- books
- case law and patents
- conference papers
- dissertations and theses
- preprints
- reports
- web pages of a scholarly nature
