Database Help

Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that focuses on scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. This is an excellent tool for known item searching or when you need to complete a partial citation. For databases more appropriate for comprehensive literature reviews, see our discipline-specific research guides.

You can get direct access to Reed library articles and resources from within Google Scholar, in addition to PDFs and links to free content.

If you are on the Reed campus and using a Reed network without a VPN, links to our resources should appear automatically.

In order to reach these same links when searching Google Scholar off campus, we recommend the following steps:

1. Go to Google Scholar with our custom link.
2. Login with your Reed account to save this setting for future visits.

If you find an article in Google Scholar but can't get the full text, you can request it via Interlibrary Loan (ILL). We'll try to get it from another library and will email it to you as a PDF.

1. In Google Scholar, select the double arrows just below the article description.
2. Select "Get it from Reed Library". You'll go to the library catalog. (If you don't see this link, be sure to follow the steps noted in the previous section, Add Library Links.)
3. Login to the Reed Library to get request options.
4. Select "InterLibrary Loan (ILL) Request".
5. Login to Interlibrary Loan with your kerberos username and password.
6. The article request form should be filled out. Review it, and select "Submit" at the bottom of the form.

If the above steps don't work, you can go directly to the Interlibrary Loan request forms and enter the required fields manually. Select New Requests from the main navigation menu, and then the type of request that is most appropriate.