Library Tips

Linking Google Scholar to Snow College Libraries

Using Google Scholar as a starting point for library and academic research is a good library research strategy. Google Scholar provides titles to many academic articles and books, but, often those titles are only accessible through a paywall. In other words, if you want to see the article from Google Scholar, you may have to pay to view the entire article.   

Fortunately, as a current student at Snow College you have free access to millions of articles and books. You can even access some of those articles by clicking on a link in Google Scholar!  

Creating a link to access articles in our library databases take less than three minutes!  Follow the simple steps below to create the link:

1. Navigate in a web browser to scholar.google.com
2. Next, select “settings” from the menu icon at the top left.
3. Click on library links in the left-hand menu
4. Type Snow College in the search box, hit enter, then check all the Snow College boxes
5. Click Save
6. When you are in a Google Scholar results page, clicking “Snow College Library” takes you to content provided by the Snow College library.
7. If you are using Google Scholar off-campus, you will be prompted to log-in using your Badger ID and password before you can access the article.

Note that if you are not logged into your Google account or you don’t have a Google account, you will need to repeat this process each time you use Google Scholar.

For more tips and tricks on how to quickly find academic, scholarly articles, visit our Snow College library tutorial pages.