Academic Journals and Search Engines
This document provides a comprehensive list of academic resources for researchers, including platforms for sharing research papers (such as Academia and ResearchGate), databases of scholarly journals (like JSTOR and ScienceDirect), reference management tools (such as Zotero and RefWorks), and search engines for academic literature (like Google Scholar and Core).
Academia - A platform to share research papers, allowing researchers to keep track of the latest work.
Academic Journals - A broad-based publisher of peer-reviewed open-access journals.
African Journal Online - The world’s largest and preeminent platform of African-published scholarly journals.
American Society of Civil Engineers - Access a broad range of Civil Engineering literature published by the ASCE.
Base - A robust search engine especially for academic open-access web resources.
Bibsonomy - A system for sharing bookmarks and lists of literature.
Cambridge Journals - A portal to access journals published by Cambridge University Press.
Citationsy: Citationsy is a reference management tool that helps you create citations, reference lists, and bibliographies. It’s an online tool, available as a browser plugin, that can import citations from various scholarly databases.
Cite This For Me: Cite This For Me is a user-friendly citation tool that allows you to build your bibliography using various citation styles. It also offers a browser extension that helps you cite as you browse.
Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies - A collection of bibliographies of scientific literature in computer science from various sources.
Core - Provides access to millions of scholarly articles aggregated from many Open Access repositories.
DeepDyve - Provides access to many journals for a subscription.
EBSCOhost - A database interface that accesses many databases in different disciplines.
Elsevier - A platform that provides access to science, health, and technology journals and books.
Google Scholar - A comprehensive database of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources.
HighWire: Free Online Full-text Articles - A division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire Press hosts the largest high-impact, peer-reviewed content repository.
Journal Guide - A tool that helps researchers to evaluate scholarly journals.
Journal Seek - A database of journal information available on the internet.
JSTOR - A digital library for scholars, researchers, and students, offering a wide range of content in various disciplines.
Lazy Scholar - A tool that helps to find free scholarly full texts, metrics, and easy citations.
Leibniz Information Centre For Science and Technology University Library - Indexes all reports of German publicly funded projects and many scientific papers.
Microsoft Academic - A comprehensive database of academic papers covering many disciplines.
NRC Research Press - Canadian-based science publisher.
OA.mg - A database of over 240 million scientific works, with PDFs for all Open Access papers in their catalog (~ 40 million).
Open Access Scientific Journals - Offers various open access journals in several scientific fields.
OVID: Ovide is an experimental single-user writing and editing software. It was constructed in the context of research into publication formats in the Humanities and Social Sciences and is, therefore, particularly suited to this field. However, it could probably be helpful to others. It allows you to produce high-quality static websites, printed documents, and working files suitable for editing in other environments (markdown, HTML, XML-TEI).
Oxford Journals - A collection of academic and research journals published by Oxford University Press.
Paperpile - A reference management software and service, primarily for Google Docs.
PubMed - Database offering well over 27 million citations for biomedical literature.
ProQuest - A global information content and technology company providing resources for research in various fields.
Quetzal Search - Comprehensive scientific literature search and organization tool for life science researchers.
RefWorks - A premier reference management service that supports the needs of students, faculty, and librarians.
Research Gate - A social networking site for scientists and researchers.
SAGE Journals - A gateway to world-class journal research curated by SAGE Publishing.
ScienceDirect - A leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles from more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals.
ScienceDomain - An open-access publisher serving the scientific community.
Science Publications - Provides access to scientific research information to the scientific community and the public.
SciSpace is a tool that helps researchers create, collaborate, and publish their research.
- Extension: SciSpace Chrome Extension - Helps researchers to find and share research articles.
SCIRP - An academic publisher of open-access journals.
Springer - Provides access to millions of scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols, and reference works.
Taylor & Francis Online - Provides access to academic journals and part books in humanities, social sciences, behavioral sciences, science, technology, and medicine.
Wiley - An online library offering a broad collection of books, journals, and research resources.
World Digital Library - A project of the U.S. Library of Congress, carried out with UNESCO, offering access to significant primary materials from countries and cultures worldwide.
World Science - A global science gateway providing access to national and international scientific databases and portals.
Zetoc - Provides access to the British Library’s Electronic Table of Contents of around 20,000 current journals and around 16,000 conference proceedings published annually.
Zotero - A free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.