Google Scholar: A Tool to Search Scholarly Information on the Web

Abstract

Google Scholar is the scholarly search tool of the world’s largest and most powerful search engine, Google. It enables the users to search for scholarly literature including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Google Scholar gets its information directly from publishers and by crawling the Web for scholarly content. Following a descriptive method of study, the paper provides a detail history and development timeline of Google and Google Scholar. Discusses in detail the features, search strategies, citation indexing values of Google Scholar.