 Google Scholar, as you know, is a great resource for scholarly articles. But have you ever found the perfect article and were asked to pay for it or couldn't access it? Or just couldn't find what you wanted? Here are a few tips that will help you get better results when searching Google Scholar. It can function as a backdoor into the Laurier Library catalog and databases. To make this work, first go to your settings, choose library links, type in Laurier, hit search, and save the setting. You only need to do this once for Laurier to be saved. Now the Get It at Laurier link will appear whenever Laurier has subscribed to a journal. This link gives you free access to articles otherwise unavailable to you. But what happens if an article has no Get It button and you can't access it? Click on the versions link to see if there is one that is open source or otherwise freely available. Sometimes searches produce numerous results but not enough that are really pertinent to your topic. By default, Google Scholar searches every word in your sources. But you can change this. Go to advanced search and then search within titles. This strategy can produce more targeted results. Are you still having trouble finding enough good sources? If you find one good article, click on the related articles link to find more sources like it. Are the articles that you find dated? Clicking on the cited by link will retrieve more current articles. You can also narrow down your results by date ranges. And note that if there are citations to your article in Web of Science, they will show up here. Do you need to cite an article? Google Scholar provides a handy quotations icon that links to an already formatted citation that you can copy and paste into your bibliography. It is always a good idea to proofread citations for possible errors. And keep in mind that not everything in Google Scholar is peer reviewed. If you have any questions, just ask us at library.wlu.ca.help.askus. Let us know whether or not this video was helpful.