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Scholarly Publisher's Toolkit

Creating your profile in Google Scholar

Associate your works in Google Scholar by establishing either a public or private directory of your citations. The listing can be created in literally minutes, then allow google to do all the heavy lifting on listing your future publishing as well as keep track of who’s citing you!  To get started, visit: http://scholar.google.com/intl/en-US/scholar/citations.html or choose the Get My Own Profile button on the right hand side above the Citation indices.See the example below for Albert Einstein’s citation page.

albert einstein google scholar profile

Configuring Google Scholar From Home - A one time set up to view Molloy's holdings!

On Campus Users:

No configuration is necessary. When you conduct a search within Google Scholar, articles that can be linked to full text will have a "Molloy Full Text" hyperlink at the right of the results as illustrated below:

screenshot showing google scholar search results with link to Molloy full text

Off Campus Users:

You can connect via the instructions in the GET IT FAST box yellow lightining bolt in black circle or use the GoogleScholar searchbox provided on this guide. You can also manually configure Google Scholar on your home computer or laptop in a few simple steps:

Once you are in Google Scholar, click on the three vertical lines in the far left, then the gear icon for Settings or just go directly to the settings.

  1. Scroll to where you see Library Links and enter Molloy then click the Find Library Button
  2. Put a check in all available resources as indicated below
  3. Additionally, under the Search Results/Bibliography Manager, you can Show Links to Export Into: RefWorks. Note: You must be have a RefWorks account in order for the export feature to work, as it will ask you to sign in. 
  4. Click SAVE to apply your changes

screenshot of library links in google scholar settings

 

screenshot of bibliography manager in google scholar settings

Setting Additional Preferences: While in the Scholar preferences, you may also want to take a moment to set the Search Language to English and if desired, 

  1. Test your settings. Conduct a sample search. Links to Molloy should appear to the right, links to ProQuest and RefWorks appear below the citation as indicated in the first screenshot above. Didn't work? Use the methods indicated in the GET IT FAST box on the right.

Get it fast

yellow lightning bolt over black circleIf students and faculty access Google Scholar via our A-Z Database links, no configuration is required. Simply enter your network or Canvas username and password and you will be automatically linked to all of Molloy's full text databases.

Or, click on the link below.