2. Academic database
• collection of information
that is commonly used for
research and writing,
including access to
academic journals.
• Credible content and
powerful search tools
3.
4. Academic Search Premier: This EBSCO
database provides access to the latest
research published in thousands of
scholarly journals.
JSTOR: This non-profit database covers
more than a thousand academic journals,
and a university or library affiliation
provides access to the full text of articles.
It can be terrific for background research,
but it does not provide access to the latest
studies.
Academic One File: This database, often
available through public libraries, has
access to thousands of journals.
5.
6. Google Scholar: this database is
free to anyone, but access to the
studies listed in your search results
may be restricted.
Microsoft academic Search: this
evolving database has tools for
seeing connections between
researchers and their work. It
provides a “profile” of many
academics and charts how their
findings have been cited.
7. Directory of Open Access
Repositories (Open DOAR): This site,
run by the University of Nottingham
(U.K.), aggregates databases from
around the world, locating open access
research across disciplines.
PubMed Central: This database from
the U.S. National Institute of Health has
more than 2 million open accesses,
full-text studies that relate to public
health and policy issues.
8. National Bureau of Economic
Research: A nonprofit research
organizations that publishes top
scholarships in the economics
discipline.
Social Science Research Network:
This open-access database has
hundreds of thousands of important,
current papers, many of which are
available for free download as PDFs.
9. Directory of Open Access
Journals: A growing database that
covers only journals that is free
and opens to the public.
Mendeley: A database that
crowd-sources selected studies
from participating scholars
around the world.
10. Public Library of Science (PLOSS): The
flagship journal of this open-access
academic project, plus one, features original
peer-reviewed research on science and
medical topics; many studies have policy
implications.
High Wire: A library and database project
from Stanford University that provides full
access to a huge collection of research.
Full Texts Reports: A site that aggregates
research-related studies and reports from
across the universe of information.
11. Open CRS: The Congressional Research
Service (CRS) operates as a quasi-think tank
that provides reliable, unbiased background on
policy issues.
RAND Corporation: Non-partisan think
tank that produces a wealth of information on
social science topics.
Pew Research Center: Leading survey and
research organization that not only does
polling on salient issues on the news but
provides deep, analytical reports around the
issues.
12. Russell Sage Foundation: An
organization that is tied into a large
network of social science scholars
across the United States.
The Brookings Institution: A non-
profit think-tank, Brookings has a
large network of scholars that
produce reports and papers on a
wide variety of important news
topics.
13. Zetoc: One of the world’s
most comprehensive research
databases, this Jisc service
gives you access to over
28,000 journals and more than
52 million article citations and
conference papers through the
British Library’s electronic
table of contents.
14. software program that helps
users find information stored on
a personal computer, or a
network of computers, such as
the Internet.
most often used to find pages,
files, news, images, and other
data on the Web.
16. Yahoo: major global Internet
search engine, based in Sunnyvale,
California. Launched in 1995,
Yahoo! was the first online
navigational guide to the World
Wide Web. It began as a student
hobby and evolved into a global
brand, used freely by millions of
people.
17. The Microsoft Network
(MSN):Corporation that provide
news, information, entertainment,
and electronic mail (see e-mail) to
users of personal computers and
wireless communication devices.
MSN also acts as an online service by
providing Internet access on a
subscription basis to customers, who
connect to the service over telephone
lines or cable television lines.
18. Moxdex: an open source
search engine built entirely
using different open source
technologies, has been
tweaking and refining its
search results while in beta
testing.
19. Object search: This engine
automatically categorizes search
results on-the-fly into hierarchical
clusters.
Wolfrom alpha: A so-called
‘answer engine’, the service
answers queries directly based
on the search terms rather than
providing a list of results.
20. Core: An experimental service,
allowing keyword and semantic
search of over 10 million open access
articles.
Base: is one of the world's most
voluminous search engines especially
for academic open access web
resources from over 2,000 sources. It
is bigger than CORE, but the
discovery tools are not as advanced.
22. NAME DISCIPLINE(S) DESCRIPTION ACCESS
COST
PROVIDERS
AgeLine Sociology,Gerontology Includes information on
aging-related topics,
including economics, public
health andpolicy.
Subscription EBSCO Publishing[6]
Cochrane
Library
Medicine,Healthcare Includes reviews of
research to promote
evidence-based healthcare.
Subscription Wiley Interscience[35]
Directory of
Open Access
Journals
Journals The Directory Of Open
Access Journals (DOAJ)
lists more than 10,000
open access journals
(September 2014) in
multiple research areas.[48]
Free Lund University[49]
dblp
computer
science
bibliography
Computer science Comprehensive list of
papers from major
computer science
conferences and journals
Free Produced by Schloss
Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center
for
Informatics and University
of Trier, Germany[50]
National Diet
Library
Collection
Multidisciplinary Japanese. Catalog for the
National Library of Japan.
N/A National Diet Library[94]
