The Google Scholar search engine appears more comprehensive in scope relative to ProQuest as well. This is attributable to the greater number of courses Google indexes from an academic standpoint to gain this data. While ProQuest does not have as much content accessible using Boolean search parameters as Google Scholar, of the documents it indexes, a higher percentage of them are accessible. There is also a greater level of flexibility in how citations are downloaded on ProQuest relative to Google Scholar. Support for APA, AMA, Turabian, and Harvard formats is available on ProQuest for example and not available on Google Scholar. This can be a significant time saving feature when larger papers are being researched.
When a Boolean search was completed using the Google U.S. Government Search, 58,200 documents were found, and like Google Scholar, when the exact search term "Tenured...
Google Scholar of the three search engines discussed is the most useful tool because in several of the entries, duplicated what was found in a Google book search and also provided citations as well. Google Scholar also provides PDF links of articles when available, which emulates the full functionality of EBSCO Host, ProQuest or Lexus/Nexus without the cost or the need to have approval from a university to use these research sources.
References
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