Crawls "more scholarly" websites then Google, but not everything is scholarly. More work to determine if something is scholarly sometimes. Note: Be sure to setup to display library links for George Mason University Libraries to get full text articles.
The point of search for an articles is being able to read the ones that you want. Often, Google Scholar searches publisher websites that ask for money to view an article.
University Libraries might have an article, but not at the publisher website. Setting up library links with Google Scholar will display links to University Libraries.
Note: If you sign into Google Scholar, it will remember your settings
Select the Menu, then Settings.
Select library links from the navigation
Type mason into the search box
Select the George Mason University – Full-Text @ Mason checkbox
Access (searching and browsing) journals and eBooks published by Elsevier and its partners. Covers most disciplines, including science, medicine, economics and the social sciences.
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Access over 480 journals, books, book series (including Lecture Notes in Computer Science and Topics in Current Chemistry), protocols, and reference works published by Springer and its partners. Covers subjects in computer science, engineering, humanities, social sciences, law, business and economics, biomedical and life sciences. View a tutorial on this database here.
Search, browse, and access the full text of more than 2,000 journals published by Taylor & Francis covering the humanities, medicine, the social sciences, science, and technology. View a tutorial on this database here.
Provides full-text access to over 1200 journals. Subject areas includes the sciences, social sciences, business, education, law, computer science and technology.
Contains citations and searchable author abstracts, covering scholarly literature in journals, books and conference proceedings. Includes: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Book Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Current Chemical Reactions, Index Chemicus, and Emerging Sources Citation Index. Additional resources available by selecting from the dropdown list next to the Core Collection heading. Tutorial for the Web of Science: Core Collection database.
Citations and full-text articles in the area of computing and information technologies from journals, magazines, and conference proceedings published by the ACM.
Covers subject areas include the computing and applied sciences disciplines, engineering, computer theory and systems, new technologies, and more. Resources are academic journals, professional publications, and reference sources.
"You can search this computer science research database for free to find bibliographic information on major computer science journals and conference proceedings. dblp is a joint service of the University of Trier and Schloss Dagstuhl."
Provides full-text access to all journals, transactions and conference proceedings published by IEEE and IET. Accesses more than 1,000 books in the IEEE-Wiley eBook Library and IEEE-MIT eBook Library-Computing and Engineering Collection.
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Provides full-text articles on advanced technology from 1962 to present. Comprehensive coverage of research, emerging technologies, applications and companies in the areas of computer & information technology, information systems, databases, and many more.
Provides worldwide comprehensive coverage of topics ranging from computer security to web commerce. Comprises three core elements: Full -text journals, tables and figures, bibliographic abstracts. Covers resources from 1981 to present. View a tutorial on this database here.
Provides access to full-text engineering research articles and granular access to figures and tables within articles. Covers global literature on technological and engineering innovations from 1966 to present.
Search 9 different research databases simultaneously with this tool. Results are de-duplicated and relevance ranked. Databases searched include: Compendex, IEEE Xplore, Inspec, Medline, PubMed, Science Citation Index Expanded, ScienceDirect, SPIE Digital Library, and Springer Link.
Covers original life science research reports and reviews in traditional biological and biomedical areas; as well as references to primary journal literature on vital biological research, medical research findings, and discoveries of new organisms. Tutorial for the BIOSIS Previews database.
The U.S. National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database of literature on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health-care system, and pre-clinical sciences. Tutorial for the Medline database.
Comprises over 27 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations and abstracts include the fields of biomedicine and health, covering portions of the life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering. Provides access to additional relevant web sites and links to the other NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) molecular biology resources. View a tutorial on this database here.
Supports research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends. Covers U.S. and international scholarly journals, correctional and law enforcement trade publications, crime reports, crime blogs and other materials.
Provides summaries of important law enforcement and criminal justice publications including books, government reports, research reports, journals and unpublished research. Topics covered include corrections, courts, crime statistics, domestic preparedness, drugs, juvenile justice, law enforcement, and victims. Content range: 1970 to present.
The ABI/INFORM Collection includes international coverage and provides researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
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Covers scholarly journals for business topics such as marketing, management, human resources, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Includes author profiles, financial data, books, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, company profiles, SWOT analyses, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, datamonitor, and country reports from 1886.
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Supplies international business and news coverage from more than 8,000 sources including newspapers, newswires, magazines, trade journals, radio and television transcripts, and websites. Compiles company information and data and up to 5 years of historical market data. Contains photographs and pictures from Reuters and Knight Ridder. View a tutorial on this database here. See the Factiva link generator to generate permalinks to Factiva records.
Comprehensive source of business, industry, and investment information. Includes data and analysis of industries, companies, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, indexes, and current news gathered from S&P publications.
Delivers comprehensive suite of authoritative financial information. Up to 4 years of key financial information on over 400,000 global private companies; integrated screening and searching for public and private companies; full company reports in pdf format; ability to view competitors on both private and public companies. View a tutorial on this database here.
AMS peer-reviewed journals are of the highest quality in mathematical research. It offers searchable electronic versions that are available prior to the print versions.
Provides access to statistical data produced by U.S. Federal agencies, States, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. Charts, maps, views, rankings, time series and tables are available for use in the Data-Planet repository. Data-Offers capabilities to compare & contrast multiple data series, perform statistical calculations on the data, and customize output views.
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[Open Access] This journal "disseminates knowledge for the improvement of statistics education at all levels, including elementary, secondary, post-secondary, post-graduate, continuing, and workplace education."
"This journal covers topics including problems involving massive and complex data sets, solutions using innovative data mining algorithms and/or novel statistical approaches, and the objective evaluation of analyses and solutions."
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