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- Pubmed, and online articles indexed in Pubmed
- Ingenta.com and online versions of articles indexed in Ingenta
- ACM Portal, IEEE, American Institute of Physics, arXiv.org, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature.com, American Medical Association and other medicine journals, Nature.com
- SpringerLink,Wiley Interscience, Cambridge journals, Taylor and Francis, Sage Publications, Blackwell-Synergy, and others
- Online preprints of articles posted by authors on their websites
- Online dissertations and theses
- Instructional materials put up on the web
- Specific web sites dedicated to scholarly or near-scholarly material.
- Google Books (books.google.com)OpenWorldcat records for books-- but not all books; it appears that only books cited in other Google Scholar-indexed materials are included.
Not all of any of these collections is searchable through Google Scholar; only article collections that provide at least an abstract for free can be indexed, and not all of the available content has been or will be indexed.
So, what is Google Scholar good for?
- Finding OpenWorldcat books by subject or keywordsFinding journal articles by title and abstract (not subject) across a wide variety of electronic journals
- Finding materials by author across disciplines.
- Finding preprint copies of journal articles on the web
- Searching for articles and resources by subject across disciplines
- Finding websites and papers that cite a particular paper or book
- Academic research when academic indexes are not available, or to supplement academic indexes
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- In some cases, when full text is available, there is inadequate descriptive information to show where the article came from. Use the WebSearch function to check for citations.
- Currently, the subject skew is toward science and medicine, and social sciences and humanities are not as well covered.
- Dissertations available through UMI are not well covered.
- There is little restricted subject indexing.
- It is in no way comprehensive, and has limited field searching and proximity searching; turn to subject area indexes for sophisticated searching.
- Boolean logic searching (AND, OR, NOT) and word-root truncation (stem*) are not available. Again turn to subject indexes.
When using Google Scholar, bear in mind that the search algorithm is subject to change without notice and not well-documented to the public.
How do I search Google Scholar?
Go to scholar.google.com and type in your search terms. Boolean logic (AND, OR) will be ignored, so don't bother with it.
Setting Preferences
Set your preferences so that you will see items owned by Drew. Click on Scholar Preferences and go down to Library Links: 
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OpenWorldcat searching (Library Search)
The entire body Some of OpenWorldCat has been made available to GoogleScholar for indexing.
Book entries are likely to look like this: 
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