Google Scholar is one of the best tools we've for searching bibliographic records. It takes to the main source of records. Basically, it provides information on citations, cited articles, sources, related articles, and versions of a particular record. It has major features like alerts, metrics, library, profile creation, period of any type of publication, and sorting. In this article, we will see how we can get bibliographic data. Before starting that, it is not like other databases that we can get the bulk of bibliographic data at the moment. Rather, we will do something simpler to urge our desired data. The steps are:
#Step 1: Basic search on Google Scholar
In the search box, we can query any terms or phrases. Here, "research data" has been selected and let's see what it gives.
We can see 5 different marked features on the search result page. Our query gave 39,20,000 (1) results. So, it's quite annoying and complicated. We will be doing something advanced form of the search strategy in the later step to get relevant results. We can filter our search by period (2); sort by abstract and everything (3); include patents and citations (4); we can access the article in pdf version (5), it gives both free and subscribed access.
#Step 2: Advanced search
There are two different frames in the above figure. In the first frame, we can see three bars (2) where we need to click to set our advanced search (2). In the next frame, we may use several searching parameters (3,5). But, in that case, we are going to do a minor modification. We will check " in the title of the article" instead of "anywhere in the article". It will reduce our search results. We also can directly search using the strategy allintitle: "research data". After doing that, we can select the period here; we will see how many articles were published in 2021 (till now).
#Step 3: Creating a library
#Step 4: Exporting the library
After clicking the My library, we will find our saved articles. For this demonstration, I have selected ten articles for my library.
First, we need to check the top blank box, which (1) will select all the saved articles. Second, we have to click the export button. We can see there are options for exporting. We can export it to a CSV file.
This is the exported file. We have eight attributes (Authors, Title, Publication, Vol, No., Pages, Year, and Publisher) of bibliographic records.
This is how we can do this job.