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scholar"Stand on the Shoulders of Giants" is the motto for this feature. Serving academic researchers, Google SCHOLAR (http://www.google.com/schhp?hl=en) provides a "one-stop shopping" method for searching scholarly literature. This feature searches for:

  • peer-reviewed papers
  • theses
  • books
  • abstracts and articles from
    1. academic publishers;
    2. professional societies;
    3. preprint repositories;
    4. universities;
    5. other scholarly organizations

The results provide a bibliographic listing of resources pertinent to the keyterm used. These listings may or may not contain hyperlinks to the resource in question. An example of both a book and a journal article citation returned for the search query "celtic folklore," follows:

[BOOK] Celtic magic: tales

L Mac Uistin, MA Negrin - 1993 - Dublin: Chester Spring, PA: O'Brien Press; US distributor, ...Cited by 2 - Web Search - Library Search

Educational Psychology and Theory, Vol. 34, No. 3, 2002

Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2002 - dx.doi.org...of articles beginning with a paper by James C. Conroy and Robert A. Davis focusing on the gure of the Trickster, an especially potent force in Celtic folklore....Cited by 1 - blackwell-synergy.com - nuclearmedicinecomm.com - adsabs.harvard.edu - all 5 versions

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