Alternative Search Engines
Searching for Scholarly Resources Beyond Google
Can't find information using Google? Try different search engines.
There are several academic search engines with open access or free access below.
General Information Search Engines
Pulls from over one billion web pages, encyclopedias, journals and books. Focuses more on scientific and academic results—meaning more results will come from .edu or .org sites, as well as online encyclopedias.
Simply ask a question or enter search topics or tools, and iSeek will pull from scholastic sources to find exactly what you are looking for.
Academic Articles
Find peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories,
Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources
Search over 100 million cross-publisher articles and counting
Access to millions of scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols, reference works, and proceedings.
Global and Economic Research
Science
Portal to U.S. government science information
More than 33 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books
Office of Scientific and Technical Information—a branch of the Office of Science within the U.S. Department of Energy.
Peer-reviewed journals and articles
Education
Unique Searches: PDF Searches, Resource Locater, and Data Sources
Search Engine for PDFs, both free and premium accounts
Use this to locate resources available in libraries around the world. You will need active memberships with the libraries or reciprocal lending privileges to check out items.
Searches that correlate with real-world data