How to link University of Central Missouri (UCM) to Google Scholar – Google scholar provide two ways to make it easier to access the electronic and print resources in your library.
Library Links – Library links are article-level links to subscription full text for patrons affiliated with a library. This program works best for electronic resources, such as journal and conference articles.
Library Search –Library search offers links to book catalogs where the patron can check local availability of a book, or request a library loan. This program works best for print resources, such as textbooks and monographs.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature. Google Scholar is a good resource for finding scholarly sources online but if it doesn’t know that you have rights to access online articles and other sources from a library, it might send you to a page which asks you to pay for the article you want.
With a few adjustments to your preferences, you can tell Google Scholar to point you to the resources that the library provides for the UCM community.
Before you get started, change your “Settings” so that Google Scholar knows you are affiliated with University of Central Missouri (UCM) when working off-campus.
Follow these steps to add UCM to your Google Scholar preferences:
1. Go to https://scholar.google.com/
2. Click “Settings” in the left menu bar
3. Click “Library links” on the left side of the screen:
4. In the search box, type University of Central Missouri
5. Check the boxes that appear
6. Click “Save”
