Academic Search Engines and Databases for Scholarly Literature
IEEE Xplore
IEEE Xplore (ieeexplore.ieee.org)
Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) & Reference works
BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library (Germany) and contains indexed documents.
Subject coverage:multidisciplinary
Target Audiences: Scholars.
Directory of Open Access Journals
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
Subject coverage:
Target Audiences:
Google Scholar
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
Target Audiences:
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
Target Audiences:
Refseek
(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
Directory of Open Access Repositories.
Articles
Academic Search Engines and Databases for Scholarly Literature, articles_in_research_methodology, Career opportunities in the industry, Extramural Funding Opportunities / fellowship-opportunities, home, Index of RESEARCH METHODOLOGY, Methodology, Research Methodology, research methodology, Research Methodology, RESEARCH METHODOLOGY, RESEARCH METHODOLOGY FOR CHEMISTRY, Resources to help with paper writing, Scientific method, रसायन के लिए शोध पद्धति