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List of Academic Databases and Search Engines PDF
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This page contains a representative list of major databases and search engines useful in an academic setting for finding and accessing articles in academic journals, or
in repositories, archives, or other collections of scientific and other articles. As the distinction between adatabase and a search engine is unclear for these complex document
retrieval systems, see:
the general list of search engines for all-purpose search engines that can be used for academic purposes
bibliographic databases for information about databases giving bibliographic information about finding books and journal articles.
Note that "free" or "subscription" can refer both to the availability of the database or of the journal articles included. This has been indicated as precisely as possible in the
lists below.
Free abstracts;
AJOL: African Scholarly journals published
Multidisciplinary Subscription African Journals OnLine[8]
Journals OnLine in Africa[7]
full-text
Contains 7 discipline-specific
subsets.
Directory of Open
Journals Free Lund University[46]
Access Journals
Comprehensive list of papers
DBLP Computer science from major computer science Free University of Trier, Germany
conferences and journals
Working papers and articles
about economics in Colombia.
More than 5,000 documents
Dotec-Colombia Economics from more than 50 institutions Free Dotec-Colombia [47]
in the country. Dotec-
Colombia automatically links
all documents in Repec
The American Economic
Association's electronic Produced by the American Economic
EconLit Economics database, the world's foremost Subscription Association.[48] Available
source of references to from CSA,DIALOG, OCLC, OVID, and AEA.[49]
economic literature.
Biomedical database with a
EMBASE Biomedicine,Pharmacology strong focus on drug and Subscription Elsevier[50]
pharmaceutical research.
Education literature and
ERIC: Educational Produced by the United States Department of
resources. Provides access to
Resource Education Free Education.[51] Also available by subscription
over 1.3 million records dating
Information Center fromOCLC, CSA.
back to 1966.
The world's leading database
Food Science and Produced by the International Food Information Service.
Food science,Food of information on food
Technology Subscription Access provided by OVID, Web of
technology,Nutrition science, food technology and
Abstracts Knowledge, Dialog,DataStar and STN International[52]
nutrition
FOREASt: Free Covers over 300 free and open
East Asian Studies Free Internet East Asian Library[53]
Open Resources for access resources for studying
Name Discipline(s) Description Access Cost Provider(s)
humanities.
Electronic database for legal
LexisNexis Law (general) and public-records related Subscription Reed Elsevier
information
Available in print
MathSciNet Mathematics Subscription American Mathematical Society[75]
as Mathematical Reviews
Produced by the United States National Library of
Medicine, theUnited States National Institutes of Health,
MedlinePlus Medicine Free
and the United States Department of Health and Human
Services[76]
The Mendeley research
catalog is a crowdsourced
database of research
documents. Researchers have
uploaded nearly 100M
Mendeley Multidisciplinary documents into the catalog Free Mendeley[77]
with additional contributions
coming directly from subject
repositories like Pubmed
Central and Arxiv.org or web
crawls.
Produced by Merck & Co.. Available
from CambridgeSoft
Merck Index Chemistry,Biology,Pharmacology Also available in print. Subscription
Corporation,Dialog, Knovel, MedicinesComplete,STN
International[78]
Meteorological and
Produced by the American Meteorological Society.
Geoastrophysical Meteorology,Astrophysics,Geology Subscription
Available from Dialog[79] and CSA.[80]
Abstracts
Provides many innovative
Microsoft Computer Science and a limited extent ways to explore scientific
Free Microsoft
Academic Search on information science papers, conferences, journals,
and authors[81]
Name Discipline(s) Description Access Cost Provider(s)
NBER: National
Bureau of Economics Free National Bureau of Economic Research[82]
Economic Research
Abstracts of scholarly journal
National Criminal
articles, agency and NGO United States Department of Justice,Office of Justice
Justice Reference Criminology, Sociology Free
reports, and conference Programs[84]
Service[83]
proceedings
National Diet Japanese. Catalog for the
Multidisciplinary N/A National Diet Library[85]
Library Collection National Library of Japan.
OAIster Multidisciplinary Free OCLC [86]
A web portal for academic
search and rank and technical
Odysci Academic Computer Science,Electrical
collaboration, in the computer Free Odysci [87]
Search Engineeringand related research topics
science, electrical engineering
and related research topics.
Open Access Provides Searching and
Journals Search Multidisciplinary Browsing of Open Free Open Access Journals Search Engine (OAJSE).[88]
Engine (OAJSE) AccessJournals
Open J-Gate Journals Index of open access journals Free Informatics India Ltd.[89]
Indexes European grey
OpenSIGLE Grey literature Free Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique[90]
literature.
Free abstract &
Philosophy Journals, series, conference
Applied ethics,Philosophy,Religious preview;
Documentation proceedings, and other works Philosophy Documentation Center[91]
studies Subscription
Center eCollection from several countries online.
full-text
Index of books, journals,
Philosophy
Philosophy disserations, and other Subscription Philosophy Documentation Center[91]
Research Index
documents
PhilPapers Philosophy Free PhilPapers[92]
Philosophy of science e-print
PhilSci Archive Philosophy Free PhilSci Archive[93]
archive
Name Discipline(s) Description Access Cost Provider(s)
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