{"id":6478,"date":"2025-05-09T14:32:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T02:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/?p=6478"},"modified":"2026-05-20T12:12:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:12:27","slug":"use-google-scholar-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/2025\/05\/09\/use-google-scholar-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Google Scholar better"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/05\/google-scholar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"705\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/05\/google-scholar.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6493\" style=\"width:626px;height:330px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/05\/google-scholar.jpg 705w, https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/05\/google-scholar-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/05\/google-scholar-100x53.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The best way to get to Google Scholar and&nbsp;see&nbsp;more free articles has changed from April 2026.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you link Google Scholar to Massey Library, you&nbsp;get free access to the articles we have subscriptions for, instead of being asked to pay.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We strongly recommend you take these steps to get as much&nbsp;full text&nbsp;access as possible (and to avoid the error message we have been seeing lately):&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Go directly to&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Google Scholar<\/strong><\/a> or use the Google Scholar link from a Library web page (which now go directly to Google Scholar). This step is essential.&nbsp;\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If you have bookmarked or use a link that includes&nbsp;ezproxy.massey.ac.nz&nbsp;in the URL\/address bar, you should no longer use this for Google Scholar.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You may need to clear your cache if you go directly to Google Scholar but still see ezproxy.massey.ac.nz&nbsp;in the URL\/address bar.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Note the ezproxy prefix is still used for many other Massey resources to recognise you as a Massey subscriber.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Link to Massey Library<\/strong>.&nbsp;This will give you access to our subscribed articles through Google Scholar&nbsp;results.&nbsp;There are two ways to do this:&nbsp;\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Install the\u00a0LibKey\u00a0Nomad extension in your browser.\u00a0This is the preferred method, as it links you to Massey, tries to find the article for you from a range of sources, and works on many other sites including Google.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thirdiron.com\/downloadnomad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Get\u00a0LibKey\u00a0Nomad<\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Or go to&nbsp;the&nbsp;\u2018hamburger\u2019&nbsp;icon at top left&nbsp;of Google Scholar&nbsp;and select&nbsp;\u2018Settings\u2019.&nbsp;Click on&nbsp;\u2018Library&nbsp;links\u2019.&nbsp;Search for Massey and tick the box next to&nbsp;\u2018Massey University Library&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;Check for Full Text\u2019.&nbsp;Click Save.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/05\/google-scholar-settings.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/05\/google-scholar-settings-750x345.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6479\" style=\"width:551px;height:254px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/05\/google-scholar-settings-750x345.jpg 750w, https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/05\/google-scholar-settings-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/05\/google-scholar-settings-768x353.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/05\/google-scholar-settings-100x46.jpg 100w, https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/05\/google-scholar-settings.jpg 1527w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Sign in to your Google account&nbsp;if you have one.<\/strong>&nbsp;Signing&nbsp;in&nbsp;gives&nbsp;extra full text access.&nbsp;There are two ways to do this:&nbsp;\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sign in to Google in your usual way, in the browser you are using for Google Scholar.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Or go to the \u2018hamburger\u2019 icon at top left of Google Scholar and select \u2018Settings\u2019.&nbsp;Click on \u2018Account\u2019.&nbsp;Click on \u2018Sign in\u2019 and follow the prompts. Click Save.&nbsp;Do this in each browser you use for Google Scholar.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/05\/image-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"534\" height=\"252\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/05\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/05\/image-1.png 534w, https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/05\/image-1-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2025\/05\/image-1-100x47.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>If you would like&nbsp;help&nbsp;please email\u202f<a href=\"mailto:library@massey.ac.nz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">library@massey.ac.nz<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best way to get to Google Scholar and&nbsp;see&nbsp;more free articles has changed from April 2026.&nbsp; If you link Google Scholar to Massey Library, you&nbsp;get free access to the articles we have subscriptions for, instead of being asked to pay.&nbsp;&nbsp; We strongly recommend you take these steps to get as much&nbsp;full text&nbsp;access as possible (and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-2","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6478"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6628,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6478\/revisions\/6628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}