Exercise:
Search & Compare Web of Science and Google Scholar
Download the document below and keep it open on your computer as you go through the exercise. You will be copying and pasting text into a table.
Reflect on the advantages and disadvantages of each resource, and how you might use one or the other in your own research. Start developing this "pro and con" information in your workbook.
The Resources & Reflections page for the Citation Tools module includes links to some papers that compare these two resources in more depth.
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