JOUR 201: News Writing and Reporting I

UMD Discover is the fastest way to find most content from the UMD Libraries' collections, including print books, eBooks, and some academic journal articles. Start your search on the Libraries' website:

lib.umd.edu

Tips:

• After you search for your keywords, make sure to sign in on the top right to view full results, save, and request items.
• Use the Advanced Search for more targeted searches.

Google Scholar (scholar.google.com) is a search engine specifically for scholarly literature, much of which is peer-reviewed. Search results include abstracts and links to paywalled academic journal articles; full-text open access journal articles, theses, and dissertations (including content from institutional repositories); book citations; and other literature like conference papers, preprints, abstracts, technical reports, court opinions, and patents.

Every search tool and database has pros and cons, and none can find every available resource at once. Google Scholar is especially good at finding individual English-language journal articles by title. For more complex research on a specific topic, try supplementing Google Scholar searches with subject databases and books.

Link Google Scholar to the UMD Libraries

Google Scholar will link you directly to articles the UMD Libraries subscribe to, making it easier to find full-text content. Turn on this feature before you start searching!

1. Go to Google Scholar.
2. Select the menu icon at the top left: 
3. Select 
4. Select Library links from the left sidebar.
5. Search University of Maryland Libraries in the search box.
6. Select University of Maryland Libraries - Find @ UMD from the options that appear (make sure to click the checkbox).
7. Select Save. Google Scholar will now recognize you as a UMD student on this computer/browser.

NOTE: Google Scholar will also show you full-text links if you have created a profile and are signed in, or if you're on a campus computer.

Find an Article From a Citation

1. Copy and paste the title of an article into the Google Scholar search box.
2. Locate the article in the results.
3. Select any of the links on the right side of the result to open a full-text version.
4. No full-text version? Place a request for the article (it's easy!).

Find Articles That Have Cited Yours

The Cited by function will show the research that has cited a given article. This is especially useful for literature reviews! Select the Cited by link below a search result to view the list.

Cite Articles

Google Scholar generates citations for articles in different formats. To get a citation:

1. Select the  Cite link below the article result.
2. Copy and paste the citation in the style you're using.
3. Make sure to double-check and edit the citation as needed! It will likely have formatting errors.

Find Research by Author

Many researchers have Google Scholar profiles that list their institutional affiliations and publications, like this example. Click any underlined author's name in your article search result.

Alternatively, you can search by name with the author search function: author:"safiya noble" or author:"s noble". This option also works for authors who don't have a Google Scholar profile.

Keyword Searching

Google Scholar brings back a lot of results in every discipline, so it doesn't always work as well for complex keyword searches. However, you can search "strings" of keywords and include some simple Boolean operators, like these examples:

social media youth advertising clickthrough
teenager (instagram OR tiktok)