Academic Databases And Search Engines

As the distinction between a Database and a Search Engine s, is unclear for these complex Document Retrieval System s,

See the general List Of Search Engines , for all-purpose search engines that can be used for academic purposes.

See Bibliographic Database s for information about databases giving bibliographic information about finding books and journal articles,

See Full-text Database s for information about those giving directly the full text of articles,

See Academic Database s for those with other contents, such as chemicals, DNA Sequences , or art objects. -->

Note that "free" or "subscription" can refer both to the availability of the
database or of the journal articles included. This has been indicated as precisely as possible in the lists below, which are current as of October, 2006.

GENERAL

BASE {Link without Title} (free index to academic content, mainly free)

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts {Link without Title} (subscription-based database aggregator)

EBSCO / EPNET {Link without Title} (subscription index to subscription articles in a variety of fields)

Google Scholar (free index to mostly subscription articles)

Ovid Technologies (subscription-based collections and indexes)

ProQuest (subscription index to subscription articles)

ScienceDirect (index to subscription articles)

Scirus (free index to academic web content)

Scitation

Scopus (subscription-based index to journal articles, web content, patents, etc.)

Sens Public {Link without Title} databases, Journals, other web content in social sciences, art and philosophy (several languages)

Web Of Science (subscription-based database aggregator)

Windows Live Academic (free index, still in beta)

PUBLISHER OR PLATFORM-SPECIFIC

Blackwell Synergy {Link without Title} (subscription-based collection)

Atypon Link {Link without Title} (Platform for various publishers: subscription-based collection)

HighWire (Platform for various publishers: subscription-based and free collection)

IngentaConnect {Link without Title} (Platform for various publishers: subscription-based collection)

JSTOR (Backfiles of many major journals; subscription-based collection)

OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS

Directory Of Open Access Journals (free collection and index)

LivRe! {Link without Title} (free list of journals)

Open J-Gate (free collection of articles)

SPECIFIC SUBJECTS

Agriculture

and Global Health, subscription-based databases for agriculture and environment)

Technology

IET Inspec (physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers, computing, information technology, manufacturing, production and mechanical engineering) {Link without Title}

IEEE IEEE Xplore (electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics) {Link without Title}

ACM (Computer science and engineering) {Link without Title}

Natural sciences, mathematics and computer science

ADS ( Astrophysics Data System ) (free index to Astrophysics , Geophysics & Physics journals and conference proceedings)

ArXiv (free index to free articles) .

CiteSeer (free index to free and subscription-based articles)

Libra (Academic Search) {Link without Title} (object level search engine, more reasonable ranking)

SPIRES (free index to all the literature of particle physics) most articles are free via ArXiv but it also indexes subscription journals and conferences.

The Collection Of Computer Science Bibliographies (free)

MathSciNet (a nearly complete index of mathematical journals maintained by the American Mathematical Society .)

Social sciences

ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center) (free index to subscription articles on education)

LISA (Library and Information Science Abstracts)

NBER (free index to subscription articles in economics)

RePEc (free index to partly free articles in economics)

SSRN (free index to mostly free articles in the social sciences)

Medicine

PubMed (free index to free and subscription articles)

HubMed (free alternative interface to PubMed)

EMBASE (Biomedical and pharmacological database)

KMLE Medical Dictionary (free access to multiple medical dictionaries, drug reference, and pubmed)

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