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Template:Short description This page contains a representative list of major databases and search engines useful in an academic setting for finding and accessing articles in academic journals, institutional repositories, archives, or other collections of scientific and other articles. As the distinction between a database and a search engine is unclear for these complex document retrieval systems, see:
- the general list of search engines for all-purpose search engines that can be used for academic purposes
- the article about bibliographic databases for information about databases giving bibliographic information about finding books and journal articles.
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 list:
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| Name | Discipline(s) | Description | Access cost | Provider(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Academic Search | Multidisciplinary | Several versions: Complete, Elite, Premier, and Alumni Edition<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | Template:No | EBSCO Publishing<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Aerospace & High Technology Database | Aerospace, aeronautics, astronautics | Template:No | ProQuest<ref>Aerospace & High Technology Database Template:Webarchive</ref> | |
| African Journals OnLine (AJOL) | Multidisciplinary | Scholarly journals published in Africa<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> | Template:Partial | African Journals OnLine<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| AgeLine | Sociology, gerontology | Includes information on aging-related topics, including economics, public health and policy | Template:No | EBSCO Publishing<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| AGRICOLA: Agricultural Online Access | Agriculture | Template:Partial | Produced by the United States National Agricultural Library. Free access provided by NAL.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Subscription access provided by ProQuest,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> OVID.<ref>AGRICOLA (Ovid)</ref> | |
| AGRIS: Agricultural database | Agriculture | Covers agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, aquatic sciences and fisheries, human nutrition, extension literature from over 100 participating countries.
Material includes unique grey literature such as unpublished scientific and technical reports, theses, conference papers, government publications, and more. |
Template:Yes | Produced by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. AGRIS |
| Airiti Inc | Multidisciplinary | Template:No | Airiti Inc<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| Analytical Abstracts | Chemistry | Template:No | Royal Society of Chemistry<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| Analytical Sciences Digital Library | Analytical chemistry | Template:Yes | National Science Digital Library and the Analytical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| Anthropological Index Online | Anthropology | Index only (no abstracts or full-text) | Template:Yes | Royal Anthropological Institute<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Anthropological Literature | Anthropology | Template:No | Maintained by Harvard University. Non-Harvard access provided by OCLC<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| Arachne | Archaeology, art history | German language | Template:Yes | German Archaeological Institute & the University of Cologne<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Arnetminer | Computer science | Online service used to index and search academic social networks | Template:Yes | Tsinghua University<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Arts & Humanities Citation Index | Arts, humanities | Part of Web of Science | Template:No | Clarivate Analytics<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| arXiv | Physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology and statistics | Repository of electronic pre-prints of papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics, and quantitative finance. | Template:Yes | Cornell University<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| ASCE Library | Civil engineering | All civil engineering disciplines including structural engineering, geotechnical engineering, transportation engineering, construction engineering, environmental engineering, engineering mechanics, sustainability, water resources, irrigation. hydraulics, hydrology, waterways, urban planning, cold regions | Template:Partial | American Society of Civil Engineers |
| Association for Computing Machinery Digital Library | Computer science, engineering | Template:No | Association for Computing Machinery<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| Astrophysics Data System | Astrophysics, geophysics, physics | Template:Yes | Harvard University<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| ATLA Religion Database | Religious studies | Provides information on topics such as biblical studies, world religions, church history, and religion in social issues | Template:No | <ref>ATLA Catalog Template:Webarchive</ref> |
| AULIMP: Air University Library's Index to Military Periodicals | Military science | Template:Yes | Air University<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine | Multidisciplinary | Template:Yes | Bielefeld University<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| Beilstein database | Organic chemistry | Template:No | Available from Elsevier under the product name Reaxys<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| Bibliographie de civilisation médiévale | Medieval studies | A bibliography of monographs on the Middle Ages. As of 2018, it contains about 65,000 fully classified bibliographic records. | Template:No | Produced by the University of Poitiers. Available from Brepols Publishers.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Biological Abstracts | Biology | A complete collection of bibliographic references covering life science and biomedical research literature published from more than 4,000 journals internationally. | Template:No | Available from Thomson Reuters<ref>Biological Abstracts at Thomson Reuters Template:Webarchive</ref> |
| BioOne | Biology, ecology, and environmental science | A full-text aggregation of more than 180 scientific journals publishing current research in Biodiversity Conservation, Biology, Ecology, Environmental Science, Entomology, Ornithology, Plant Science, and Zoology. | Template:Partial | Available from BioOne<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Bioinformatic Harvester | Biology, bioinformatics | A meta search engine for 50 major bioinformatic databases and projects | Template:Yes | Available from Liebel-Lab KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
| Book Review Index Online | Book reviews | Template:No | Thomson Gale<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| Books in Print | Books | Template:No | R.R. Bowker<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| CAB Abstracts | Applied life sciences | Bibliographic information service providing access to applied life sciences literature. | Template:No | CABI<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Chemical Abstracts Service | Chemistry | Template:No | American Chemical Society<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| Chemisches Zentralblatt Structural Database | Science, chemistry | web-based retrieval application that provides language independent access to the information contained in Chemisches Zentralblatt | Template:No | Available from the InfoChem<ref name="InfoChem">Template:Cite web</ref> |
| ChemXSeer | Chemistry | The project seemed abandoned in 2018. | Template:Yes | Pennsylvania State University<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index | Social sciences | Template:No | Nanjing University<ref>Chinese Social Science Citation Index (in English) Template:Webarchive</ref> | |
| CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health | Nursing, allied health | Template:No | EBSCO<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| CiNii | Multidisciplinary | Database of 15 million articles in the Japanese language from 3600 journals | Template:Partial | National Institute of Informatics<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| CHBD: Circumpolar Health Bibliographic Database | Medicine | Template:Yes | University of Calgary<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| Citebase Search | Mathematics, computer science, physics | Semi-autonomous citation index of free online research | Template:Yes | University of Southampton<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| CiteULike | Computer science | Template:Yes | ||
| CiteSeer | Computer science | Replaced by CiteSeerX. | Template:Yes | Pennsylvania State University<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| CiteSeerX | Computer science, statistics, mathematics, becoming multidisciplinary | Template:Yes | Pennsylvania State University<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| Civil engineering database | Civil engineering | A bibliographic database covering all of ASCE's publications since 1872 | Template:Yes | American Society of Civil Engineers |
| Cochrane Library | Medicine, healthcare | Includes reviews of research to promote evidence-based healthcare. | Template:No | Wiley Interscience<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| CogPrints: Cognitive Sciences Eprint Archives | Science (general) | Template:Yes | University of Southampton<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies | Computer science | Template:Yes | Alf-Christian Achilles<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| Compendex | Engineering | Electronic version of Engineering Index. | Template:No | Elsevier<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| COnnecting REpositories | Multidisciplinary | Template:Yes | Open University<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| Current Index to Statistics | Statistics | Limited free search<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | Template:No | American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Current Contents | Multidisciplinary | Part of Web of Science. Contains 7 discipline-specific subsets. | Template:No | Clarivate Analytics |
| Directory of Open Access Journals | Journals | The Directory Of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) lists more than 10,000 open access journals (September 2014) in multiple research areas.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | Template:Yes | Lund University<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| dblp computer science bibliography | Computer science | Comprehensive list of papers from major computer science conferences and journals | Template:Yes | Produced by Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics and University of Trier, Germany<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| EconBiz | Economics | EconBiz supports research in and teaching of economics with a central entry point for all kinds of subject-specific information and direct access to full texts. | Template:Yes | Produced by the German National Library of Economics – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (ZBW)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| EconLit | Economics | The American Economic Association's electronic database, the world's foremost source of references to economic literature. | Template:No | Produced by the American Economic Association.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Available from EBSCOhost, ProQuest, OVID, and AEA.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| EMBASE | Biomedicine, pharmacology | Biomedical database with a strong focus on drug and pharmaceutical research. | Template:No | Elsevier<ref>EMBASE Template:Webarchive</ref> |
| ERIC: Educational Resource Information Center | Education | Education literature and resources. Provides access to over 1.3 million records dating back to 1966. | Template:Yes | Produced by the United States Department of Education.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Also available by subscription from OCLC, CSA. |
| Europe PMC | Biomedical | A database of biomedical and life sciences literature with access to full-text research articles and citations.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Includes text-mining tools and links to external molecular and medical data sets. A partner in PMC International.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | Template:Yes | EMBL-EBI<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| FSTA – Food Science and Technology Abstracts | Food science, food technology, nutrition | The world's leading database of information on food science, food technology and nutrition | Template:No | Produced by IFIS Publishing. FSTA can be accessed through EBSCOhost,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> IHS Inc.,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Ovid,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Proquest Dialog,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> STN<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and Web of Science.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| GENESIS | Women's history | Descriptions of women's history collections from sources in the UK, as well as women's history websites. | Template:Yes | London Metropolitan University<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| GeoRef | Geosciences | Template:No | American Geosciences Institute | |
| Global Health | Public health | Specialist bibliographic, abstracting and indexing database dedicated to public health research and practice. | Template:No | CABI<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Golm Metabolome Database | Mass spectrometry | The Golm Metabolome Database (GMD) is a reference mass spectra library of biologically active metabolites quantified using gas chromatography (GC) coupled to mass spectrometry (MS). | Template:Partial | Golm Metabolome Database<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> |
| Google Patents | Patents | Template:Yes | ||
| Google Scholar | Multidisciplinary | Template:Yes | Google<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| HCI Bibliography | Human-computer interface | An electronic bibliography for most of HCI for researchers, developers, educators, and students | Template:Yes | Gary Perlman<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| HubMed | Medicine | An alternative interface to the PubMed medical literature database | Template:Yes | Alf Eaton<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| IEEE Xplore | Computer science, engineering, electronics | Template:No | IEEE<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| Index Copernicus | Multidisciplinary science | Scientific journal database – the IC Journal Master List – contains currently over 2,500 journals from all over the world, including 700 journals from Poland. The journals registered in this database underwent rigorous, multidimensional parameterization, proving high quality. The Ministry of Science and Higher Education acknowledged the IC Journal Master List by placing it on the list of scored databases, for being indexed in IC JML journals get additional points in the Ministry's evaluation process.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | Template:Yes | Index Copernicus International<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Index Theologicus | Theology, religious studies | International scientific open access bibliography for theology and religious studies. The IxTheo lists monographs, collected works, journals, essays, encyclopaedia articles, reviews as well as databases, archive materials, literary remains, blogs, podcasts, research data and other electronically available content from all fields of theology. The analysis is carried out across languages, media and denominations.
In addition to current theological literature in numerous languages, the database also contains historical titles dating back to the 16th century. Over 1,200 international theological and religious studies journals are continuously analysed and indexed with all articles and reviews. |
Template:Yes | IxTheo<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Information Bridge: Department of Energy Scientific and Technical Information | Multidisciplinary | The Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical Information provides free public access to over 266,000 full-text documents and bibliographic citations of Department of Energy (DOE) research report literature. Documents are primarily from 1991 forward and were produced by DOE, the DOE contractor community, and/or DOE grantees. Legacy documents are added as they become available in electronic format. | Template:Yes | United States Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Informit | Multidisciplinary | Australasian aggregator of bibliographic databases and journals | Template:No<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | RMIT Training Pty Ltd<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| IngentaConnect | Multidisciplinary | Template:Partial | Ingenta<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| Indian Citation Index | Multidisciplinary | Indian Citation Index (ICI) is a home grown abstracts and citation database, with multidisciplinary objective knowledge contents from about 1000 top Indian scholarly journals. It provides powerful search engine to fulfill search and evaluation purposes for researchers, policy makers, decision makers etc. | Template:No | ICI<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| IARP | Multidisciplinary | Open-access knowledge management system incorporating grants, publications, conferences in natural and social & behavioral sciences. The site provides tools to build graphic reports. | Template:Yes | Volunteer collaboration<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Inspec | Physics, engineering, computer science | The leading bibliographic database providing abstracts and indexing to the world's scientific and technical papers in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computing, information technology, manufacturing, production, and mechanical engineering. | Template:No | IET<ref>INSPEC Template:Webarchive</ref> |
| INSPIRE-HEP | Physics (high energy) | Template:Yes | CERN, DESY, Fermilab, SLAC and IHEP<ref name="INSPIRE-HEP">Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| International Bibliography of Humanism and the Renaissance | Renaissance studies | A bibliography of academic publications on European culture and history in the 16th and 17th centuries. As of 2018, it contains about 355,000 fully classified bibliographic records. | Template:No | Brepols Publishers<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| International Directory of Philosophy | Philosophy | Contains information on university philosophy departments and programs, philosophical societies, research centers, journals, and philosophy publishers in the U.S., Canada, and approximately 130 other countries. | Template:Partial | Philosophy Documentation Center<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| International Medieval Bibliography | Medieval studies | A multidisciplinary bibliographic database covering Europe, North Africa and the Middle East for the entire period from AD 300 to 1500. As of 2018, it contains about 440,000 entries. | Template:No | Produced by Leeds University. Available from Brepols Publishers.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| International Philosophical Bibliography | Philosophy | A bibliographic database focusing on the history of philosophy and continental philosophy. | Template:No | Produced the Université Catholique de Louvain. Available from Peeters Publishers.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| J-Gate | All scholarly journals | J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global e-journal literature. J-Gate provides seamless access to millions of journal articles. | Template:Partial | Available from J-Gate<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| JournalSeek | Multidisciplinary | Open access journals in different language | Template:Partial | JournalSeek<ref name="journalseek">Template:Cite web</ref> |
| JSTOR: Journal Storage | Multidisciplinary | JSTOR Collections: Current Journals; Archived Journals (first issue through 3–5 years ago); Books; and Primary Source Collections FREE Resources: 3 articles every 2 weeks (Register and Read Program, archived journals). Also, early journals (prior to 1923 in US, 1870 elsewhere) free, no registry necessary. |
Template:Partial | JSTOR<ref>JSTOR</ref> |
| Jurn | Multidisciplinary | Jurn is a free-to-use online search tool for finding and downloading free full-text scholarly works. In 2014 Jurn expanded beyond open access journals in the arts and humanities, to also index open journals in ecology, science, biomedical, business and economics. Jurn is actively curated and maintained. | Template:Yes | Jurn<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| L'Année philologique | Classical studies | Over 860,000 bibliographical entries, including keywords, abstracts, and links to the full text. | Template:No | Produced by the Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique. Available from Brepols Publishers.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Lesson Planet | Education (K-12) | Over 400,000 teacher-reviewed classroom resources including lesson plans, worksheets, educational videos, and education articles. | Template:Partial | Lesson Planet<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| LexisNexis | Law (general) | Electronic database for legal and public-records related information | Template:No | Reed Elsevier<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Lingbuzz | Linguistics | A free archive of linguistics articles, with a focus on syntax, semantics, phonology and morphology. | Template:Yes | Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics, University of Tromsø<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Linguamatics | Medicine, healthcare, patents | Interface for searching MEDLINE, ClinicalTrials.gov, FDA Drug Labels, PubMed Central, and Patent Abstracts.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | Template:No | Linguamatics |
| MathSciNet | Mathematics | Available in print as Mathematical Reviews | Template:No | American Mathematical Society<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| MEDLINE | Medicine, healthcare | Easy-to-use interface to search and retrieve citations and abstracts for biomedical and health journals. | Template:No | EBSCO<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| MedlinePlus | Medicine | Template:Yes | Produced by the United States National Library of Medicine, the United States National Institutes of Health, and the United States Department of Health and Human Services<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| Mendeley | Multidisciplinary | The Mendeley research catalog is a crowdsourced database of research documents. Researchers have uploaded nearly 100M documents into the catalog with additional contributions coming directly from subject repositories like Pubmed Central and Arxiv.org or web crawls. | Template:Yes | Mendeley<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Merck Index | Chemistry, biology, pharmacology | Also available in print. | Template:No | Formerly produced by Merck & Co.,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> now available from the Royal Society of Chemistry<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts | Meteorology, astrophysics, geology | Template:No | Produced by the American Meteorological Society. Available from Dialog<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and CSA.<ref>Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts at CSA Template:Webarchive</ref> | |
| NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research | Economics | Template:Yes | National Bureau of Economic Research<ref>The National Bureau of Economic Research</ref> | |
| Microsoft Academic | Multidisciplinary | Provides many innovative ways to explore scientific papers, conferences, journals, and authors<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | Template:Yes | Microsoft |
| Microsoft Academic Search | Multidisciplinary | Template:Yes | Microsoft | |
| Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph | Multidisciplinary | Provides an RDF data set about scientific publications and related entities, such as authors, institutions, journals, and fields of study. The data set is based on the Microsoft Academic Graph.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | Template:Yes | University of Freiburg |
| MyScienceWork | Science | Database includes more than 70 million scientific publications and 12 million patents. | Template:Yes | MyScienceWork |
| National Criminal Justice Reference Service<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | Criminology, sociology | Abstracts of scholarly journal articles, agency and NGO reports, and conference proceedings | Template:Yes | United States Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| National Diet Library Collection | Multidisciplinary | Japanese. Catalog for the National Library of Japan. | Template:N/a | National Diet Library<ref>Japanese National Diet Library Collection in English</ref> |
| OAIster | Multidisciplinary | Template:Yes | OCLC<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| OpenAlex | Multidisciplinary | Template:Yes | OurResearch<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| OpenEdition.org | Humanities, social science | OpenEdition offers the academic community four international-scale publication and information platforms in the humanities and social sciences | Template:Yes | Cléo (UMS 3287) CNRS EHESS University of Avignon<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| OpenSIGLE | Grey literature | Indexes European grey literature. | Template:Yes | Institut de l'information scientifique et technique<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Paperity | Multidisciplinary | Aggregator of open access journals and papers. Contains more than 1,500,000 full-text articles and 4,200 journals covering all academic disciplines and different languages. Provides full-text article search, RSS feeds and a mobile application to access the literature. | Template:Yes | Paperity |
| Philosophy Documentation Center eCollection | Applied ethics, philosophy, religious studies | Journals, series, conference proceedings, and other works from several countries online. | Template:Partial | Philosophy Documentation Center<ref name="pdcnet">Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Philosophy Research Index | Philosophy | Index of books, journals, dissertations, and other documents | Template:No | Philosophy Documentation Center<ref name="pdcnet"/> |
| PhilPapers | Philosophy | Template:Yes | PhilPapers<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| POIESIS: Philosophy Online Serials | Philosophy, applied ethics, religious studies | Journals and series, online access for institutions with print | Template:Partial | Philosophy Documentation Center<ref name="pdcnet"/> |
| POPLINE | Population, family planning, reproductive health | POPLINE® contains the world's most comprehensive collection of population, family planning and related reproductive health and development literature. An international resource, POPLINE helps program managers, policy makers, and service providers in low- and middle-income countries and in development-supportive agencies and organizations gain access to journal articles and other scientific, technical, and programmatic publications. | Template:Yes | Knowledge for Health, Center for Communication Programs, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Project MUSE | Humanities, social science | Project MUSE is a provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. MUSE provides full-text versions of scholarly journals and books. | Template:No | Project MUSE, Johns Hopkins University Press<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| PsycINFO | Psychology | The largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. It contains over 3.7 million records with bibliographic information and extensive indexing, more than 60 million cited references, and has comprehensive coverage dating back to the mid-19th century, with sporadic coverage going back as far as the 16th century. | Template:No | Produced by the APA.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Available from several database vendors.<ref>PsycINFO vendors list Template:Webarchive</ref> |
| Psychology's Feminist Voices | Psychology | An online, multimedia digital archive containing the profiles of 250 feminist psychologists who have shaped and continue to transform the discipline of psychology. Profiles are organized in two sections, "Women Past" and "Feminist Presence." All profiles on the Feminist Presence section contain original interview transcripts and video clips with the psychologist discussing their feminist development and academic career. | Template:Yes | Based at York University, Toronto, Canada<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| PubChem | Chemistry | Template:Yes | National Center for Biotechnology Information and the U.S. National Library of Medicine<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| PubMed | Biomedical | A database primarily of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics | Template:Yes | National Institutes of Health and the U.S. National Library of Medicine<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| PubPsych | Psychology | PubPsych is a free information retrieval system for psychological resources. It offers a comprehensive and balanced selection of resources from a growing number of international databases with a European focus, covering the needs of academic and professional psychologists. | Template:Yes | Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information |
| Questia: Online Research Library | Multidisciplinary (historical) | Template:No | Questia<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature | Journals and magazines | Coverage: 1983–present. | Template:No | H. W. Wilson Company<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Reader's Guide Retrospective: 1890–1982 | Journals and magazines | Template:No | H. W. Wilson Company<ref name="ret">Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| RePEc: Research Papers in Economics | Economics | Template:Yes | Volunteer collaboration<ref name="RePEc">Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| Reader's Guide Retrospective: 1890–1982 | Journals and magazines | Template:No | H. W. Wilson Company<ref name="ret"/> | |
| RePEc: Research Papers in Economics | Economics | Template:Yes | Volunteer collaboration<ref name="RePEc"/> | |
| Rock's Backpages | Music | Primary documents from the history of rock and roll | Template:Partial. Limited free access with registration. | Backpages Limited<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Russian Science Citation Index | Scientific journals | A bibliographic database of scientific publications in Russian. | Template:Yes | Scientific Electronic Library<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| SafetyLit | Multidisciplinary | Citations and abstracts of journal articles and reports from researchers working in the more than 35 distinct professional disciplines (architecture – zoology) relevant to preventing unintentional injuries, violence, and self-harm. | Template:Yes | SafetyLit Foundation<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> in cooperation with the Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and the World Health Organization's Department of Violence and Injury Prevention<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| SciELO | Journals | SciELO is a bibliographic database and a model for cooperative electronic publishing in developing countries originally from Brazil. It contains 985 scientific journals from different countries in free and universal access, full-text format. | Template:Yes | FAPESP, CNPq, and BIREME |
| Science.gov | Multidisciplinary | A gateway to government science information and research results. Science.gov provides a search of over 45 scientific databases and 200 million pages of science information with just one query, and is a gateway to over 2000 scientific Websites. | Template:Yes | Science.gov Alliance, 18 scientific and technical organizations from 14 federal agencies that contribute to Science.gov. United States Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information serves as the operating agent for Science.gov.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Science Accelerator | Multidisciplinary | A gateway to results of DOE research and development and major R&D accomplishments of interest to DOE. | Template:Yes | United States Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Science Citation Index | Science (general) | Part of Web of Science | Template:No | Clarivate Analytics |
| ScienceOpen | Multidisciplinary | Search engine for natural and physical sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Incorporates arXiv, PubMed, and SciELO. Integrated with ORCID for overlay and peer review services. All articles display Altmetric scores. | Template:Yes | ScienceOpen<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Scientific Information Database (SID) | Engineering, technology, medical science, basic science, human sciences | It is a free bank with multipurpose goals, containing engineering & technology, medical, basic science, human sciences papers. | Template:Yes | Scientific Information Database<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| SCIndeks – Serbian Citation Index | Multidisciplinary | A combination of an online multidisciplinary bibliographic database, a national citation index, an Open Access full-text journal repository and an electronic publishing platform. | Template:Yes | CEON/CEES – Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science, Serbia<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Science Direct | Science, including medicine | Template:No | Elsevier<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| Scopus | Multidisciplinary | Scopus is the world's largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature. It contains over 20,500 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers. While it is a subscription product, authors can review and update their profiles via ORCID.org or by first searching for their profile at the free Scopus author lookup page. | Template:No | Elsevier<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| SearchTeam | Multidisciplinary | Students search together collaboratively for scholarly articles and resources | Template:Yes | Zakta<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Semantic Scholar | Multidisciplinary | It is designed to quickly highlight the most important papers and identify the connections between them. It currently includes on computer science and biomedical publications. | Template:Yes | Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| SemOpenAlex | Multidisciplinary | SemOpenAlex extends the capabilities of OpenAlex by providing semantic representations of scholarly metadata. It integrates knowledge graph-based features to enhance the discovery of research trends, collaborations, and literature interconnections across all domains. | Template:Yes | OpenAlex Project<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Shibata | Multidisciplinary | A scientific database covering diverse disciplines, including life sciences, physical sciences, social sciences, and humanities, with publications available in multiple languages. | Template:Yes | Yubetsu<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Social Science Citation Index | Social science | Part of Web of Science | Template:No | Clarivate Analytics<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Socol@r: Socolar | Multidisciplinary | Scholarly open access resources in different language | Template:Partial | Socolar<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| SPRESI Database | Science, chemistry | chemical structure and reaction database, product name: SPRESIweb, SPRESImobile | Template:No | Available from InfoChem<ref name="InfoChem"/> |
| SSRN: Social Science Research Network | Social science | Contains an abstracts database and an electronic paper collection, arranged by discipline. | Template:Yes | Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Sparrho | Multidisciplinary | Sparrho is a personalised platform that allows users to discover, curate and share over 60 million scientific research articles and patents from 45k+ journals and preprint servers. | Template:Yes | Sparrho<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| INSPIRE-HEP | Physics (high energy) | Template:Yes | CERN, DESY, Fermilab, SLAC and IHEP<ref name="INSPIRE-HEP"/> | |
| The Lens | Multidisciplinary | The Lens functions as an aggregation platform, drawing bibliometric data from various sources such as Crossref, PubMed, Microsoft Academic, and OpenAlex, and integrating them using advanced analytics to provide enriched, contextual information. | Template:Yes | Cambia |
| TOXLINE | Toxicology | TOXLINE is the National Library of Medicine (NLM) bibliographic database for toxicology. | Template:Yes | Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. |
| SpringerLink | Multidisciplinary | Template:Partial | Springer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| Ulrich's Periodicals Directory | Periodicals | Template:No | ProQuest<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| VET-Bib | Social science, education | European vocational education and training (VET) literature | Template:Yes | European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Web of Science | Multidisciplinary | Includes other products, such as Social Science Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Biological Abstracts & The Zoological Record | Template:No | Clarivate Analytics<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> |
| WestLaw | Law (general) | Template:No | Thomson Reuters | |
| WorldCat | Multidisciplinary | Unified catalog of member libraries' catalogs | Template:Partial | OCLC<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| WorldWideScience | Multidisciplinary | WorldWideScience is a global science gateway composed of national and international scientific databases and portals. WorldWideScience accelerates scientific discovery and progress by providing one-stop searching of databases from around the world. Multilingual WorldWideScience provides real-time searching and translation of globally dispersed multilingual scientific literature. | Template:Yes | The WorldWideScience Alliance, a multilateral partnership, consists of participating member countries and provides the governance structure for WorldWideScience. United States Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information serves as the operating agent for WorldWideScience.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Zasshi Kiji Sakuin: Japanese Periodicals Index | Journals | Japanese. | Template:Yes | National Diet Library's Online Catalog,<ref>Zasshi Kiji Sakuin (at NDL)</ref> MagazinePlus,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> CiNii<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| Zentralblatt MATH | Mathematics | First three records free without subscription. | Template:No | Springer Science+Business Media<ref>Zentralblatt MATH Template:Webarchive</ref> |
| The Zoological Record | Zoology | Unofficial register of scientific names & papers in zoology. Coverage 1864–present. | Template:No | Clarivate Analytics<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
See also
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- Academic publishing
- Google Scholar
- Lists of databases
- List of digital library projects
- List of educational video websites
- List of neuroscience databases
- List of online databases
- List of online encyclopedias
- List of open access journals
- Lists of academic journals