Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites."
Google Scholar is best used as an adjunct to searching across many academic databases, as it does not provide comprehensive coverage of the literature of any discipline.
*Note: From off-campus, be sure to access Google Scholar via the U Sask Library's list of databases. Click here for help on customizing Google Scholar.
Search tips: Google Scholar
Use synonyms and alternate terms, as Google does not have "controlled vocabulary"
And is implied between words and phrases
Use the minus sign - instead of Not -- e.g. "leadership skills" -"higher education"
Use quotation marks for phrases such as "leadership skills"