 Hi, my name is Alex. I'm a librarian at the University of Alabama and today I'm going to show you how to search for articles on Google Scholar. In this video, we'll cover basic keyword searches, refining your search by publication date, Google Scholar's advanced search, and some advanced searching tips. So we're going to be looking for articles about the use of VR in the classroom. We'll start with a fairly basic keyword search. On the right-hand side of the screen, you see if you can access the articles or not. Some are provided through Alabama databases, while others are freely accessible through the internet. One thing to know is that your search is sorted by relevance, not date. That's actually good, but for something like virtual reality, we'll probably want fairly recent articles. This article at the top is from 1992, and therefore maybe just a bit too old. So we can refine our search by date. You can find articles published since a certain year, or put a custom date range in. We'll limit our search to articles published since 2014. Google Scholar lets you refine your search even more when you use the advanced search. You can control the date, look for articles published in a certain journal, or buy a certain author, and be more specific in your keyword searches. So, for example, here I'm searching for the exact phrase virtual reality, and then combining that with at least one of these words. A few more things about the search results page. Under each article, you'll see the authors, a brief blurb, and a few links below it. One is Google Scholar's cited by function, and the other is the related articles button. The related articles button is just an easy way to find articles on a similar topic. The cited by function is important for a couple of reasons. For example, this article has been cited over 300 times since it was published in 2014. While that doesn't mean that it's inherently flawless article, it does show you that it's a relatively important one. You can also click on the cited by link and see a list of articles that cited it, which can be another easy way to find more articles. You can do a similar thing by looking at the works cited page of your original article. If you find an article there that looks promising, the easiest way to find it on Google Scholar is just to copy and paste it into the search bar with quotations around it. And that's all for now. If you have any questions, you can call us, text us, or visit ask.lib.ua.edu to ask a librarian.