Google Scholar

If you would like to obtain full-text articles directly from your web search results or your Google Scholar search results, you need to:

• Download the Google Scholar Button plug-in for your web browser
  
  
• Enable the Library link in your Google Scholar Settings

You can then:

• Obtain full-text articles from any of your web search results by highlighting the article title, or author, citation and then simply click on the Google Scholar Button;
  
  
• You will be taken directly to the article available from the Library's collection.
  

To do so, you only need to follow the following three steps illustrated on the right:

• Download the Google Scholar Button
  
• Add the Library Link to your Google Scholar Settings
• Search and access
  

Google Scholar Button is a plug-in and is available for Firefox, Chrome and Safari.  You should download the plug-in for the browser you use frequently.

• Firefox 
  

• Chrome
  

• Safari - Search Google Scholar Button, and download it from your search result. 

Once you have downloaded the plug-in, the Google Scholar Button  should appear in your browser tool bar  .

Now, you need to add our library link to your Google Scholar settings. 

• Go to Google Scholar (scholar.google.com), click Settings
• Click Library Links on the left, type in California State University, Los Angeles in the search box, and click the search button
• You will see California State University - Los Angeles - FREE @ CSULA Lib Online appears below the search box, and make sure to check the box and click Save
  
  

• Do a Google search using an article title as shown below.  Once you see the search result, highlight the title, and click the Google Scholar Button in your browser's tool bar.
  
  
• You will see a pop-up box with the selected article, and the button will appear if the article is available full-text online from any of the library's subscription databases. 
• Click the or the green PDF button to access the article in full-text. 
• The quotation mark on the upper right corner of the pop-up box takes you to the article citation in APA, MLA, or Chicago style, and you can export the citation to your citation management tool, such as, RefWorks.
• If you are off campus, you will be asked to login with your MyCSULA Identity ID and password to access the full-text article.