Research Guides: Google for Researchers: More Google Search Tools

Google Books Search

Google Book search works just like a web search. If the book is out of copyright, or the publisher has given Google permission, you'll be able to see a preview of the book, and in some cases the entire text. If the book is in the public domain, you're free to download a PDF copy.

Google Scholar Search

Use Google to find scholarly literature available on the web.

Did you know you can:

Find articles, books, and reports using Google Scholar,
Find court opinions,
Search by author or title,
Sort by date, and more.

Learn more about Google Scholar at Google Scholar Search Tips

More Google Search Tools

Fact Check Explorer
Fact Check Explorer is a fact checking database from Google. Google does not endorse or create any of these fact checks.
Google Images
Works like regular web search, but your results are only images. You can also upload an image, and find out where the same image can be found on the web (click on the camera icon in the search box).
Google Docs (Research Tool)
Google Docs provides you with free equivilents for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access. Documents are stored and retrieved from the web. While composing in Google docs, you can do web research from within the document. Click Tools, then Research, or CTRL + ALT + SHIFT + I
Google Dataset Search
Use this Google search to search across large datasets.
Google Public Data Explorer
The Google Public Data Explorer takes large data sets and makes them palatable for public consumption, taking numbers, figures and other data and turning them into bar graphs, line graphs, maps and bubbles. You can also you can upload data and use Google's explorer tools to explore it visually.
Google Scholar Citations
Check who is citing your publications, graph your citations overtime, and view publications by colleagues. Requires a Google sign in.