Google Scholar is a search engine which provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
To set preferences for USC:
Click on Scholar Preferences.
Go to the Library Links section.
Next enter USC, and click Find Library.
Select the boxes for University of Southern California, & click Save Preferences.