Google Scholar Preferences
Did you know that Google Scholar can link into subscription databases, allowing you to use it as a federated search for databases like JSTOR and Science Direct? That you can import citations into Refworks or Endnote?
Just click the little Scholar Preferences link to the right of the search box. From there, you can change your language, add a library for full text subscriptions, change the results display, and choose a citation manager.
And don’t forget to check the Advanced Search as well. Advanced search allows you limit by subject (such as “Biology, Life Sciences, and Environmental Science”), which is really handy when you are searching for keywords that are used differently in different fields.
Unfortunately it’s not really linking into the databases, though it’s not a bad federated search engine. As described on their library links page - http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/libraries.html:
For libraries that make their resources available via a link resolver, we are now offering the option to include a link for their patrons to these resources as a part of the Google Scholar search results.
How does it work?
On-campus users at participating schools will see additional links in Google Scholar search results which facilitate access to their library’s resources. These links lead to the library’s servers which, in turn, direct them to the full-text of the article.