Academic Search Engines and Databases for Scholarly Literature

IEEE Xplore

IEEE Xplore (ieeexplore.ieee.org)

Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) & Reference works

https://www.base-search.net

BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library (Germany) and contains indexed documents.
Subject coverage:multidisciplinary

Target Audiences: Scholars.

Directory of Open Access Journals

http://www.doaj.org

DOAJ is a free search engine for scientific and scholarly resources.

Subject coverage:

Target Audiences: students and researchers

Educational Resources Information Center

https://eric.ed.gov Eric is populated by the US Department of Education

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Google Scholar

http://scholar.google.com

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JURN

http://www.jurn.org JURNis a search tool for free academic articles and books. is powered by a Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) Subject coverage: Multidisciplinary
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Lib Guides Community

http://community.libguides.com Subject coverage: library study guides
Target Audiences: students and researchers
Developed by: Springshare.

Microsoft Academic

https://academic.microsoft.com/

Subject coverage: Multidisciplinary
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Refseek

http://www.refseek.com

(in public beta version) attempts to search open source, newspaper, and web content for academic content. Subject coverage: multidisciplinary
Target Audiences: students and researchers.

ResearchGate

https://www.researchgate.net/search

ResearchGate is a social networking site for scientists and researchers.

Wolfram Alpha

http://www.wolframalpha.com
Wolfram Alpha is an “answer engine“

OpenDOAR

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