You will need to customize settings in google scholar to connect to isu library resources.

Not all materials listed in Google Scholar are freely available. Few books will be entirely online, for instance. In many cases, especially with journal articles, when you click on a title in your search results, you will only see an abstract of the article, and be asked to pay to see the entire article. However, Google Scholar also allows you to hook into our library subscriptions.

If you are on campus, Google Scholar recognizes your location and automatically shows you the link to the library materials.

If you are off campus, there are two ways of seeing links to library subscriptions:

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Google Scholar searches many of our publishers' websites, but also these databases:

During the fall semester, Google Scholar made slight tweaks to their page displays, which were the result of implementing a major new feature called My Library. This feature enables users to mark/star Google Scholar result records that you like, save them to a free account, and export them en masse to a citation management software package.

My Library is essentially a storage place for Google Scholar records. In order for this to work, users must sign in using a gmail.com email address. After running a search in Google Scholar, below each record in the results list will be something like this:

When the star is clicked, it will turn dark blue and that record is automatically added to the My Library page if you are signed in. If not, the system will route the user to the sign-in page, and then add the record, which stay in My Library until the user deletes them.

Authors who have a Google Scholar Profile will notice that My Library comes pre-populated with all the Google Scholar records for articles they have authored or cited. These records can be deleted if desired. Mark the items then click on the trash icon at the top of the list.

My Library provides the ability to export multiple records at one time to a citation management software such as Mendeley, EndNote or Zotero. From within My Library, simply check the box next to each record to export then click on the Export icon at the top of the list.

Setting a personal computer/device to enable full-text links to ISU Library subscribed content has also changed slightly. It is a bit more hidden and terminology is confusing now that there is a feature called My Library. Below are

See below for quick views of how to set full-text links for articles to ISU Library subscribed content, for use on a laptop or a smaller mobile device:

Note that terminology for ISU Library syncing with Google Scholar search results has changed from "GetIt@ISU" to "ViewIt@ISU".

Clicking save while logged into a gmail account, allows the system to remember settings from one session to the next. If the user isn’t logged in, settings are only remembered until the browser is closed.

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Connecting Google Scholar to the Library will add "Viewit@ISU" links to your search results. Clicking these links will prompt you to sign in to the Library and then query our collection. If the Library subscribes to the item you are looking for, you should be directed to the service that will let you access it.

Go to https://scholar.google.com
- You can perform these steps without a Google Account but signing in will save your changes so that they work across multiple devices.
Click the icon showing three horizontal bars on the top left of the webpage.
From this menu click Settings and then click Library links.
In the search box on the Library links page, enter iowa state
You’ll see three different options. Check the box for Iowa State University – ViewIt@ISU.
Click Save.