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BIOL 1000 - Strategies for Academic Success

A guide for students planning to major in the biological sciences.

Google Scholar - Advanced Search and Commads

Google Scholar has an Advanced Search that "hides" under the dropdown arrow at the end of the search box:

    

   

When you click on this dropdown arrow you will have extra options and thus greater control over your searches

  

If you click on the "anywhere in the article" option ...

    

  

 

... you can limit your search so that all the words you use must appear in the title:

 

     

It is also possible to use the command  " intitle: " in a standard Google Scholar search blank to limit certain words to the title while allowing other words to appear anywhere in the article.  Be sure that the term or phrase (which should be typed in quotes)  is entered immediately to the right of the colon in " intitle: "

   

Example 1 - a search for an article that contains the "videofluoroscopic" in the title and also contains the word "swallow" somewhere else in the article:

     

    

Example 2 - a search for an article that contains the phrase "problem based learning" in the title as well as the word "mathematics" and also contains the phrase "middle school" somewhere in the article: