Advanced searching in Google Scholar doesn't require the researcher to use Boolean operators or speech marks or brackets, however, you can improve your search results if you do.
On the Boolean Search tab we saw how AND, OR, and NOT actually work and on the Library Plus tab we saw how it could be used in a database but in a search engine like Google Scholar (and in some other databases) you have to set out how you want your search to work.
Let's say that we're looking for our Healthcare Students' Experience of Placements again. We've worked out all of our variant terms that we want to search for. And, hopefully, we've also worked out how we want them to be combined.
Search 1 would be: Healthcare OR radiography OR nursing OR "occupational therapy"
Search 2 would be: Experience OR perception OR satisfaction OR attitude
Search 3 would be: Placement OR "clinical placement" OR "practice placement"
Search 4 would be: Students
To put this search into a search engine (or one of the databases that requires you to set your search out this way) it would look like this:
(Healthcare OR radiography OR nursing OR "occupational therapy") AND (Experience OR perception OR satisfaction OR attitude) AND ( Placement OR "clinical placement" OR "practice placement") AND Students
The brackets tell the search engine what to look for first. So in this case it will do all of the searches within the brackets first (all of your OR searches, in the same way that you did them separately when you searched Library Plus). Then, when it has those results, it will add them all together (the same as your Search with AND search that you did in Library Plus) and it will then present you with your results. (135,000)
You can click on Custom range... in the sidebar to limit by date.
Directly below that is the option to sort your results by date rather than relevance.
To the right of your results (if you completed the Google Scholar settings set-up from the Using the Internet tab) you should occasionally see Check our E-Journals A-Z, and you can click on that link (if you're logged in to UDo) to see whether we have full-text access to that article. We won't always have full-text access as it tends to map over to journal titles rather than directly to the articles but if you click on the link it will let you know one way or the other.
In order to get to the advanced search box in Scholar you have to perform one search on the main screen in the single search box to get your results page and then on the top right of the screen is a small, greydownward pointing arrow.
If you click on that you get a couple of options, click on Advanced Search.
You can see that it's input multiple ANDs carried through from our advanced search in the single search box, these can be deleted and if you wanted other terms to appear or a term to be excluded, or to look for a particular author then you can add that to the various boxes.