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    What is Google Scholar?

    Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online journals of Europe and America's largest scholarly publishers, plus scholarly books other non-peer reviewed journals.
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    • Top positive comment  about 4 years ago • 0 replies
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    For basic scientific research, does not bubble like its parent "Google"
    Good for curious beginners and early advanced academia.
    Includes citations (sometimes), some duplications (I can live with that).
    Free ... more advanced academic search engines are not free
    Is not for shopping nor popular culture.
    In my test (IMHO) far more accessible results for curious seekers than more academic search-engines.
    Settings via the hamburger-icon (top-left corner) are saved as cookies
    ... No tracking cookies in my experience, so far
    ... If cookies are a worry, blocking google.com does [NOT] block scholar.google.com
    My search for "coconut oil" returned excellent sources (Cambridge University) without all the opinionated spooks usually turned up by "consumer" search engines.

    A keeper https://scholar.google.com :)

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    A great quantity of papers with most papers being free
    Positive comment • 8 months ago • as an alternative to  ResearchGate ResearchGate

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    Google Scholar was added to AlternativeTo by camis on Apr 26, 2012 and this page was last updated Jan 5, 2021.

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