How to configure Google Scholar to have it recognize you as a member of the UofT community
If you don't see Get full text when you are off-campus using Google Scholar, connect Google Scholar to our Library resources in order to read and download articles without paying unnecessary fees. Remember that the University of Toronto Libraries have already paid subscription fees for most of the articles.
To link Google Scholar to the University of Toronto Libraries, see the instruction below.
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uses natural language |
deletes and edit your keywords |
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includes feminist journals that are independent of commercial platforms |
includes theses, dissertations, student journal articles, as well as tabloid newspapers and some predatory/deceptive journals |
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does not own or store any full text because it is not a repository: downloading many articles is not possible without your UTORid (with password) |
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the users can see how many times an article/book has been cited by other publications |
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includes scholarly books from Google Books |
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allows users to search full text if it is available online (born-digital or digitized contents) |