Research resources
Academic search engines
Academic search engines
BASE is a search engine especially for academic open access web resources. BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.
BASE is a search engine especially for academic open access web resources. BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
Microsoft Academic provides search results from continually refreshed and extensive academic content from over 80 million publication.
Microsoft Academic provides search results from continually refreshed and extensive academic content from over 80 million publication.
iSEEK™ Education is a targeted search engine that compiles hundreds of thousands of authoritative resources from university, government, and established noncommercial providers.
iSEEK™ Education is a targeted search engine that compiles hundreds of thousands of authoritative resources from university, government, and established noncommercial providers.
RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than one billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers.
RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than one billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers.
Open access research sources
Open access research sources
CORE (COnnecting REpositories) is to aggregate all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and make them available to the public. In this way CORE facilitates free unrestricted access to research for all.
CORE (COnnecting REpositories) is to aggregate all open access research outputs from repositories and journals worldwide and make them available to the public. In this way CORE facilitates free unrestricted access to research for all.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a community curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a community curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
OAIster is a union catalog of millions of records representing open access resources that was built by harvesting from open access collections worldwide.
OAIster is a union catalog of millions of records representing open access resources that was built by harvesting from open access collections worldwide.
OpenDOAR - The Directory of Open-Access Repositories provides a quality-assured listing of open access repositories around the world. OpenDOAR is maintained by SHERPA Services, based at the Centre for Research Communications at the University of Nottingham.
OpenDOAR - The Directory of Open-Access Repositories provides a quality-assured listing of open access repositories around the world. OpenDOAR is maintained by SHERPA Services, based at the Centre for Research Communications at the University of Nottingham.
Online theses
Online theses
British Library EThOS is the UK’s national thesis service which aims to provide a national aggregated record of all doctoral theses awarded by UK Higher Education institutions, and free access to the full text of as many theses as possible for use by all researchers to further their own research.
British Library EThOS is the UK’s national thesis service which aims to provide a national aggregated record of all doctoral theses awarded by UK Higher Education institutions, and free access to the full text of as many theses as possible for use by all researchers to further their own research.