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Google Scholar limits your search to scholarly literature. However, there are limitations:

• Some of the results aren’t actually scholarly
  • Check out this article for an example of one that looks scholarly at first glance, but isn’t a good source upon further inspection
• It isn’t comprehensive
  • Some publishers don’t make their content available to Google Scholar
• There is limited search functionality and refinement options

If you want to search Google Scholar, be sure to access it from UBC Library. To do this, click the Indexes & Databases tab on the UBC Library homepage, and search for Google Scholar. This way, you will access articles through your UBC credentials.