Search Engines and Libraries

Academia

Is a platform for sharing academic research. Academics have uploaded 28 million papers, and 98 million academics, professionals, and students read papers on Academia every month.

Academicinfo

In-depth directory, a round up of the best and most useful links and resources within a specific subject area. In most cases they list both printed reference works and electronic resources.

BASE

Is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. It provides access for full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access).

Bioline

Is a pioneer in the provision of open access to peer reviewed bioscience journals published in developing countries. These journals contain timely research on public health, international development, tropical medicine, food and nutritional security, and biodiversity..

CIA World Factbook

Is a little different from the other resources on this list in that it is not an online journal directory or repository. It is, however, a useful free online research database for academics in a variety of disciplines.

Cochrane

Is a global independent network of researchers, professionals, patients, careers, and people interested in health. It gather and analyze the best available evidence to help people make informed decisions about health and health care. These are called systematic reviews.

CORE

It enables PubMed users to access full text links to articles hosted in CORE via its LinkOut service, providing researchers with a direct route to the research. It collects 207,255,818 scientific outputs along with 27,958,423 hosted documents bringing open science to everyone.

DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)

Is an independent database contains over 16 500 peer-reviewed open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities.

ERIC

Is a comprehensive, easy-to-use, searchable, Internet-based bibliographic and full-text database of education research and information.

EThOS

Is the UK’s national thesis service which aims to maximize the visibility and availability of the UK’s doctoral research theses. It demonstrates the quality of UK research, and supports the UK Government’s open access principle.

Google Scholar

It provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, and abstracts from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.

Iraqi Digital Repository

The largest Iraqi website includes more than (100,000) titles for theses and theses discussed in Iraqi universities (Since the establishment of postgraduate studies in Iraqi universities) In all scientific and humanitarian disciplines (updated constantly).

IVSL (Iraq Virtual Science Library)

It provides free, full-text access to thousands of scientific journals to which the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research is subscribing to from major publishers as well as a large collection of on-line educational materials.

JURN

A multidisciplinary search engine that provides links to various scholarly websites, articles, and journals that are free to access or OA. Covering the fields of the arts, humanities, business, law, nature, science, and medicine,

OpenDOAR

Is the quality-assured, global Directory of Open Access Repositories, to search and browse through thousands of registered repositories based on a range of features, such as location, software or type of material.

PLOS

Is a nonprofit, Open Access publisher empowering researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication.

PubMed

Is a research platform well-known in the fields of science and medicine. It was developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

Refseek

Is an academic search engine for students and researchers. Locates relevant academic search results from web pages, books, encyclopedias, and journals.

ResearchGate

Is the professional network for scientists and researchers. We help researchers connect and make it easy for them to share and access scientific output, knowledge, and expertise.

SAGE Journals

Is a global academic publisher of books, journals, and a growing suite of library products and services.

Semantic Scholar

is a unique and easy-to-use resource. It harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to efficiently sort through millions of science-related papers based on your search terms.

Science Direct

Search a wide varieties from foundational science to new and novel research, discover the large collection of Physical Sciences and Engineering publications, covering a range of disciplines, from the theoretical to the applied.

ScienceOpen

Is a discovery platform with interactive features for scholars to enhance their research in the open, make an impact, and receive credit for it, to bring researchers closer to the content than ever before.

Science.gov

Is a gateway to government science information provided by U.S. Government science agencies, including research and development results.

Sci-Hub

The first website in the world to provide mass and public access to tens of millions of research papers.

WorldCat

Is the world's largest network of library content and services. WorldCat libraries are dedicated to providing access to their resources on the Web, where most people start their search for information.