Google Scholar is a global search tool that searches for scholarly resources across many disciplines and sources.
Unlike Primo Search, which searches only CSU Library's holdings, Google Scholar searches everything, and so will find resources that are not necessarily available to you. But if you use the Google Scholar page provided by CSU Library, you can at least see, and link to, the online items to which CSU subscribes. Another way to achieve this is to set your Google Scholar preferences to show CSU Library holdings - instructions are in the Library's video tutorial on Using Google Scholar below.
Pros and Cons: Advantages of using Google Scholar:
Pros and Cons: Disadvantages of using Google Scholar:
Some hints on using Google Scholar: