Film Studies

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly and peer reviewed literature. From one search box, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites

As of March 2015, Wikipedia reported that approximately 160 million documents were indexed by Google Scholar. Coverage of topics in Google Scholar varies from discipline to discipline as many journal publishers do not allow Google to index their articles; in many cases searching subject specific databases will result in a better choice of articles.

If you are searching with Google Scholar on-campus you will automatically be given access to articles for which Ryerson has a subscription.  If you are using Google Scholar off-campus, you will need to configure Google Scholar to get access to those articles.

For Google Scholar to know that you are affiliated with TMU (and that you should have access to TMU resources), you will need to configure your Google Scholar Preferences as follows:

1. Go to scholar.google.ca and click on the Three bar (hamburger) menu (upper left) 
2. Click on Settings
3. Choose Library Links from the left-hand menu
4. Enter Ryerson in the search box
5. Click in the box beside Toronto Metropolitan University - Check TMU Libraries
6. Scroll down and click on the Save Preferences button

Once configured, you will see Check TMU Libraries links when you search Google Scholar and you will have access to all TMU's subscription resources.

Chrome users can install the Google Scholar Button to make finding articles and formating citations easy.  You can use it to:

• Find full text of articles
• Re-do your web search on Google Scholar
• Format references in APA, MLA or Chicago style and copy them into your paper.

To take full advantage of the Google Scholar Button when off-campus, remember to configure your Google Scholar settings so that it knows you are from Ryerson and provides access to TMU subscribed resources.

Sometimes while you are surfing the web you will come across a great resource but are unable to access it due to a paywall. Use this off-campus URL builder to create a URL that will check to see if TMU has access to the resource. If we do not have access, you will get a “Access to this resource is not allowed” message.