Google Scholar And Its Uses
                     Google Scholar And Its Uses
Anthea Johnson
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Google Scholar is nothing but a very precious blessing for people seeking 
educative information on varied subjects, on the Internet. It (Google 
Scholar) is a vast database consisting of academic literature penned down 
by scholars. The purpose of Google Scholar is to provide easy access to 
the literature encompassing abstracts, journals, books, articles, to name a 
few. In fact, it’s a platform where people would in no way be hassled in 
searching for required information.
Google Scholar, which came into existence in the year 2004, keeps itself 
consistently updated with latest researches, developments, etc. This 
throws light on the fact that; it is of immense value to seekers of 
knowledge and especially to students aiming for higher studies. Here, it 
won’t be inappropriate to have a glimpse of few of the primary 
advantages of Google Scholar.
 You are enabled to carry out the search for literature, from single 
location.
 One can rest assured that the details they obtain here are up-to-date.
 On this platform, people are facilitated in keeping track of articles of 
their preference, in all aspects. To be clearer, you will know about the 
total number of times users have cited a specific article. Also, you shall 
be able to identify these users!
 Saving the literature for further reference becomes a simplified thing, 
courtesy the Scholar (Google).
If you intend to really benefit from Google Scholar, there are some key 
tips that you must never forget. These are:
 Make sure that you make a mention of dates in the searches. With this, 
you can rest assured that the details you obtain are the most recent ones.
 Equally important is the point that you include terms like 
“corresponding articles”, “entire versions”, among others, while 
searching.
 Do not ignore the references part of a write-up, so that you’ll be able to 
comprehend a subject in an in-depth way.
At this point, it needs to be admitted that Google Scholar has few 
shortcomings, as well. Perhaps, the most alarming of those is that, even 
predatory journals are getting included in search results (of Google 
Scholar). Now, let us see as to what exactly these journals are.
Predatory journals are classed as literature that gets published, without it 
having to undergo any sort of editing and review process. It is a rather sad 
state of affairs that, nowadays; there is no dearth of online publishers 
encouraging predatory journals. They (publishers) do so, with the sole 
intention of making money in an easy way! These journals get published 
almost in a jiffy, while genuine scholastic works consume fair bit of time 
before appearing on Worldwide Web.
Academicians and intellectuals have been voicing their concerns over 
appearance of predatory journals in Google Scholar, in the following 
manner:
 Only commonsense is what that is required to understand that the 
content of predatory journals is unreliable.
 Medicine & health is an avenue that is getting gravely impacted with 
these dubious journals, for this is the area where wrong/misleading 
information could even risk the lives of people!
 Due to the questionable practices of these types of publishers, actual 
scholars are being deprived of sufficient opportunities to publish their 
articles, papers, etc
Combating the menace of predatory journals is need of the hour. If this 
issue is not resolved, it won’t be too long before the very purpose of 
forming Google Scholar gets destroyed!
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