ACADEMIC SEARCH ENGINES
ACADEMIC JOURNALS
A publisher of peer-reviewed open access journals. Academic Journals currently publish over 100 open access journals covering:
✔Art and Humanities ✔Engineering
✔Medical science ✔Social sciences
✔Biological sciences ✔Physical sciences
✔Agricultural sciences
ERIC
Is an internet-based digital library of education research and information sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education.
ERIC provides access to bibliographic records of journal and non-journal literature from 1966 to the present.
MICROSOFT ACADEMIC SEARCH
Is a great search engine from the software giant Microsoft.
It provides the ability to explore more than 38 million publications.
One of the best features of this search engine is that it provides trends, graphs, and maps for your academic research.
It contains more than 40 million publications and 20 million authors.
OAIster
Is a union catalog of millions of records that represent open access resources.
This catalog was built through harvesting from open access collections worldwide using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).
Today, OAIster includes more than 50 million records that represent digital resources from more than 2,000 contributors.
REFSEEK
Is an academic search engine which is simpler than Google even in appearance.
With a database of over one billion documents, web pages, books, journals, newspapers, online encyclopedias and articles.
VIRTUAL LEARNING RESOURCES CENTER
Allows you to explore educational sites with high-quality information.
It has indexed thousands of academic information websites.
With custom Google search, researcher will be able to get more refined results.
UNPAYWALL
An open database of 26,477,249 free scholarly articles.
The Open Access content is from over 50,000 publishers and repositories which are easy to find, track, and use.
DOAJ
Is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. DOAJ is independent.
All DOAJ services are free of charge including being indexed in DOAJ. All data is freely available.