Why Use Google Scholar
- The ubiquity of Google: biggest name recognition
- Popular search method, as it's a familiar interface for users: many institutions have integrated their databases, such that even if the resource is in a subscription database, you can then click on its title and access it via your institution's services
- Lets searchers follow you and get alerted when you have new publications
- Has its own popular impact tracking
- Very simple to set up and maintain
- Coverage: covers articles published between 2012 and 2016
Create a profile
- Go to scholar.google.com and click on "My Profile" in the upper lefthand corner
- Although you'll be using your UWin email later, you will need a Google account (GMail, etc) to start this process. Sign up for one now if you don't already have one.
- Fill in the profile form.
- Use your uwindsor address for the "email for verification"
- Be sure to enter your name as it appears in your articles
- Click on "Next"
- Scholar will send an email to the address you entered above. Verify your email.
- At this point, you can add articles
Add Articles
- Scholar will make suggestions, which you can go through and accept or reject (it often will pull articles in by authors with semi-similar names).
- Scholar will present groups of articles that it thinks belong to you.
- You can check off the group that actually were written by you.
- Then within the group, select all the articles that belong to you.
- Then, click the blue arrow in the right hand upper corner.
- If Scholar hasn't picked up one or more articles, you can add them manually, once you've finished your profile.
- From your completed profile homepage, click on the + sign next to the Title heading, then select "Add article manually"
- Fill in the relevant information, then click the blue checkmark to save
- This doesn't upload the actual item to Scholar, but rather creates a citation to it. Unfortunately, you aren't able to add a link to work located on SSRN, our insitutional repository, etc. However, Google will eventually index items on academic repositories, at which time the article will be linked.
Adjust Settings
- You can choose between having your profile updated automatically, or having proposed updates emailed to you
- Be very careful of auto-update! Ideally, don't allow Google Scholar to update your profile automatically. If you do elect to go with auto-update, check back regularily to ensure that other authors materials aren't being included in your profile.
- Once you have everything looking correct, you can choose whether to make your profile public or not.
- As a Scholar profile is an excellent way to promote your scholarship, we do suggest you make it public