- Google Scholar: While regular Google can be a helpful tool, sometimes you just need scholarly results, and that’s just what this tool does, paring down results to the most reliable and academic sources.
- JSTOR: A digital library of more than 1,500 academic journals, books, and primary sources. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. Free membership (content access is restricted to several articles a month) or paid membership (no restrictions).
- Google Correlate: A tool on Google Trends which enables you to find queries with a similar pattern to a target data series. The target can either be a real-world trend that you provide (e.g., a data set of event counts over time) or a query that you enter. In other words, the pattern generates the keywords rather than the keywords generating the pattern. So you do have to think in reverse.
- Online Journals Search Engine: Find just about every journal out there that’s available online, both free and pay, with this search engine.
- Directory of Open Access Journals: It’ll show you where the best free online journals related to your subject area can be found.