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Google Scholar: tips tricks / Searching Google Scholar Google Scholar searches for scholarly material including books, journal articles, conference papers, chapters, and theses on a wide range of subjects. Results are sorted by relevance, based on fulltext matching, where it was published, who wrote it, and how often it has been cited. Please note, the tips and tricks described in this guide are subject to change. Default search settings include: not case sensitive capital letters of search terms are ignored AND search terms are automatically combined using AND keyword searches the fulltext of scholarly material, including citation and abstract Options to refine your search include: synonyms Google automatically searches for matching and similar meaning words tourism finds tourist “phrase searching” use quotation marks around phrases “hearing loss” OR results include either search term. OR must be in capital letters ipod OR mp3 exclude use – immediately before a search term you want to exclude ipod –itunes include use + immediately before automatically excluded search terms that you want included +the intitle: finds results with your search term in the document title intitle:mp3 author: finds results with your search term as the document author author:Jones date range to change from Any time, select an option from left side of the results screen document type Choose Articles or Case law or My library, or deselect include patents Advanced Scholar Search This screen offers further ways to refine your search, including searching within a