 Google Scholar is a great tool for finding scholarly articles online. If you've searched in Google Scholar before, you've probably encountered an article that sounds perfect for your topic only to find that you can't access the full article because it's behind a paywall. By connecting your Google Scholar account with the IRSC Libraries databases, you can quickly see if you have free access to articles that would otherwise be closed off to you behind a paywall via the IRSC Libraries databases. When combined with IRSC Libraries, Google Scholar functions like a power search of the library databases and scholarly articles available freely on the web. Start by typing scholar.google.com in the address bar of your browser. If you're already logged into a Google product on this computer, you may see your avatar in the upper right hand corner. If not, click on sign in in the top right corner. Log in with your Google credentials which are your Gmail address and password. This allows Google Scholar to remember your library settings for next time. Now that we're logged in, we're going to use the hamburger menu in the top left to save IRSC Libraries to the settings. Click on the hamburger menu then click on settings. On the left side of the screen, click library links. In the search field, type in Indian River State College and click search. Indian River State College will appear below with an empty box to the left of it. Check the empty box. Now click save. Now we're back at the home page. Just like with the regular Google search page, you can type in any search terms you'd like to start with. For this example, I will search for articles about the disease multiple sclerosis. I got 1.85 million results. These are sorted by relevance by default, but you can see on the left I have some options to limit by or sort by date. My assignment requires articles from the last five years, so I will click on custom range and type in 2015 to 2020. I now have 261,000 results. Near the right hand edge of the page, you can see some hyperlinks in blue next to some of the results. If you do not see any hyperlink next to an article title, then the full text of the article is probably not available to you. You can click on the title and see what is available, but it's likely to be just the abstract and the paywall. For results with the PDF or HTML link on the right side, you can likely access the full text of the article by clicking on that link. Articles with full text at IRSC to the right of them should be available to you through the IRSC Libraries databases. Be sure you are logged into the Libraries databases in another browser tab, then click full text at IRSC. If you weren't logged in, you should be prompted to log in now. You'll log in through my Pioneer portal. Use your Rivermail email address and password. You may also notice on the results screen under each title are hyperlinks labeled sided by and related articles. By clicking on sided by, you can see other articles which have sided this article. This is a great way to find related sources which are often newer and more specific. By clicking on related articles, you will see a list of similar articles on topics discussed in the original article. Like the regular Google search, Google Scholar also offers an advanced search option. Click on the hamburger menu, then click advanced search. A window will pop up in front of the normal search screen. You can use the advanced search to search by keyword, author or publication and to filter your results by date. Congratulations! Now you're ready to power search the IRSC Libraries databases using Google Scholar.