Alternative Search Engines

refseek

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.

WolframAlpha

Computational Knowledge Engine. Search a topic or question here.

iSeek

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.

Infotopia

“Google-alternative safe search engine.”

Mendeley

Search over 100 million cross-publisher articles and counting

Springer Link

Access to millions of scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols, reference works, and proceedings.

Bioline

Open access to global research journals from developing countries

RePEc

A collaborative collection of research in Economics and other related sciences.

Science.gov

Portal to U.S. government science information

PubMed Central

More than 33 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books

WorldWideScience

Office of Scientific and Technical Information—a branch of the Office of Science within the U.S. Department of Energy.

Semantic Scholar

Semantic Scholar is a free AI-powered research tool for scientific literature

Sem

Elsevier Science Direct

Peer-reviewed journals and articles

PDFDrive

Search Engine for PDFs, both free and premium accounts

Google Trends

Searches that correlate with real-world data