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Google Scholar searches across many disciplines and sources, including articles, theses, books, online repositories, universities, web sites, etc. There is no comprehensive list of what publications it covers.
Search example: Dr. Julie Bowker (http://psychology.buffalo.edu/about-us/faculty/bowker/)
Be Aware:
Google Scholar released Google Scholar Citations in 2011. It allows you to create a scholar profile from existing Google Scholar data. It displays your publications and citations, and calculates your h-index and i10-index (i.e. number of articles with at least ten citations).
To set up a profile: click on the My Citations tab and set up a profile. For details click here. The service offers the option to automatically add new articles to your public or private profile. Once your profile is set up and you made it public, a Google Scholar search will display your profile at the top of the page.
You can also keep track of your cited references in Google Scholar by setting up an alert with My Citations in Google Scholar. The best way to do this is to search for the item(s) you want to track and once you've found a set of results you like, click the alert icon on the results page. This will bring you to a screen that will look something like this:
Once you click create alert, Google Scholar will e-mail you every time it discovers a new citation to the article.
Here are some programs that you can try out that will help you manage the Google Scholar data.