Why Google Scholar?

Try Google Scholar using terms from your course(s) and see what you find. It's my favorite tool at the Library Commons Help Desk. You'll find lists of articles, books from Google Book Search, articles cited by other scholars, sometimes full-text.

Now many of our expensive full-text journals are linked through Google Scholar, so you can get access to thousands of articles because we have subscriptions. Try it and see. Will it sometimes be frustrating? Certainly, but think of your searching as an adventure. Most often you will find something really good and useful. The Alvernia linking software is new to us so it will take some time to get the bugs out. Try often.

http://scholar.google.com/

Off campus you may need your external access information to get to the full-text subscriptions. Some articles are free to everyone, but many are not. Sometimes even finding a title or abstract is a help. It's worth a look.