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Why sometime Google Scholar asked me to pay for the full text?
Google Scholar often links to commercial publisher websites that may
ask you to buy a subscription or pay to access an article.
Advantages of Google Scholar
Some of the main advantages of Google scholar are briefly discussed in
below:
Full text articles available;
Search for many sources from just one search engine;
If available, the whole paper or article can be located;
The articles are ranked to produce the best solution to the search;
Abstracts and Citations can also be found;
Google Scholar's results are more academically related than most other
search engines;
Google scholar allows you to connect to library servers;
Ranks and lists search results in order of relativity to search query;
Show how many article cited your article.
You can find federal and state cases with Google Scholar’s powerful search
algorithm (similar to WestlawNext and Lexis Advance), and it will likely
return relevant results even if you do not use the proper search terms. Its
algorithm works best for issues that are commonly litigated.
You can limit your search results by keyword, date, and court.
You can create citation alerts and have them delivered to your email.
Limitations/problems of Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a search engine by Google. It can be accessed by going to
http://scholar.google.com/. It has many limitations of problems. Some of them are stated
below:
Some articles require payment for full view of text;
Some articles are available only as abstracts; others are pay-per-view.
Results may not be as comprehensive to search;
Google Scholar has less coverage in humanities and more in Science and
Technology;
Not all search results are always current and completely accurate;
A non-scholarly source can sometimes show up as a result;
Google Scholar does not cover non-English source.
It only shows those result only which are indexed on its database.
Old publications are not indexed on its database.
Only digital publications may capable to indexed on its database, those
publications which does not any digital format may not able to indexed on its
database.
Although Google Scholar has no database for legal articles, you can
keyword search to find articles, and it will provide links to articles hosted on
other websites.