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  1. List of academic databases and search engines

    Biomedical research literature published from more than 4,000 journals internationally. Subscription Thomson Reuters: Cabells: Multidisciplinary: 35,000 Database to discover, evaluate, and compare journals. Journal listings include publication info, submission guidelines, and metrics. Subscription Cabells: Chemical Abstracts Service: Chemistry

  2. JSTOR Home

    Harness the power of visual materials—explore more than 3 million images now on JSTOR. Enhance your scholarly research with underground newspapers, magazines, and journals. Explore collections in the arts, sciences, and literature from the world's leading museums, archives, and scholars. JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals ...

  3. Google Scholar

    Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Search across a wide variety of disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions.

  4. The best academic research databases [Update 2024]

    Organize your papers in one place. Try Paperpile. 1. Scopus. Scopus is one of the two big commercial, bibliographic databases that cover scholarly literature from almost any discipline. Besides searching for research articles, Scopus also provides academic journal rankings, author profiles, and an h-index calculator. 2.

  5. Literature Search: Databases and Gray Literature

    Gray Literature. Gray Literature is the term for information that falls outside the mainstream of published journal and mongraph literature, not controlled by commercial publishers. includes: hard to find studies, reports, or dissertations. conference abstracts or papers. governmental or private sector research.

  6. PubMed

    PubMed is a comprehensive database of biomedical literature from various sources, including MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. You can search for citations, access full text content, and explore topics related to health, medicine, and biology. PubMed also provides advanced search options and tools for researchers and clinicians.

  7. Scopus

    Scopus: Comprehensive, multidisciplinary, trusted abstract and citation database. Quickly find relevant and authoritative research, identify experts and gain access to reliable data, metrics and analytical tools. Be confident in advancing research, educational goals, and research direction and priorities — all from one database.

  8. Scopus

    Your brilliance, connected. Scopus uniquely combines a comprehensive, expertly curated abstract and citation database with enriched data and linked scholarly literature across a wide variety of disciplines. Scopus quickly finds relevant and authoritative research, identifies experts and provides access to reliable data, metrics and analytical ...

  9. Scopus

    About Scopus. Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track ...

  10. Literature

    NCBI's Literature resources include the world's largest repository of medical and scientific abstracts, full-text articles, books and reports, as well as supporting resources for cataloging and indexing the materials. How to. Obtain a full-text article; Find related articles; Set up automated searches and alerts; Create a collection

  11. Academic Databases

    The ERIC database is the premier education literature database for scholarly research. This guide covers search types and strategies, filters, and full text options. ... We have compiled the top list of research databases for healthcare, medicine, and biomedical research: PubMed, EMBASE, PMC, and Cochrane Library. ...

  12. Literature searches: what databases are available?

    PubMed. PubMed was launched in 1996 and, since June 1997, provides free and unlimited access for all users through the internet. PubMed database contains more than 30 million references of biomedical literature from approximately 7,000 journals. The largest percentage of records in PubMed comes from MEDLINE (95%), which contains 25 million ...

  13. Database Search

    What is Database Search? Harvard Library licenses hundreds of online databases, giving you access to academic and news articles, books, journals, primary sources, streaming media, and much more. The contents of these databases are only partially included in HOLLIS. To make sure you're really seeing everything, you need to search in multiple places.

  14. The top list of research databases for medicine and healthcare

    1. PubMed. PubMed is the number one source for medical and healthcare research. It is hosted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and provides bibliographic information including abstracts and links to the full text publisher websites for more than 28 million articles. Coverage: around 35 million items.

  15. How to undertake a literature search: a step-by-step guide

    Abstract. Undertaking a literature search can be a daunting prospect. Breaking the exercise down into smaller steps will make the process more manageable. This article suggests 10 steps that will help readers complete this task, from identifying key concepts to choosing databases for the search and saving the results and search strategy.

  16. Find a Database

    How to search the full databases list. databases.hollis.harvard.edu searches descriptions of the databases Harvard subscribes to. The search interface recognizes all of HOLLIS's search operators. Suggested search strategies: Subject = Language and Literature; Keyword in database description = Literature; Keyword in database description = Writer ...

  17. A systematic approach to searching: an efficient and complete method to

    As a library, NLM provides access to scientific literature. Inclusion in an NLM database does not imply endorsement of, or agreement with, the contents by NLM or the National Institutes of Health. ... The search team then combines knowledge about databases with knowledge about the research topic, which is an important condition to create the ...

  18. What is a Research Databases?

    A research database is a structured collection of digital information and resources that are specifically designed to support academic and scholarly research. These databases gather and organize a wide range of materials, such as academic journals, research papers, conference proceedings, books, theses, patents, and more, making it easier for ...

  19. Literature search for research planning and identification of research

    Abstract. Literature search is a key step in performing good authentic research. It helps in formulating a research question and planning the study. The available published data are enormous; therefore, choosing the appropriate articles relevant to your study in question is an art. It can be time-consuming, tiring and can lead to disinterest or ...

  20. Literature & Language Research Databases

    This bibliographic database provides high-quality cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for journals encompassing the broad spectrum of linguistics and language study. It offers thousands of records with subject headings from EBSCO's robust thesaurus, curated by subject matter experts. Poetry & Short Story Reference Source is a rich full-text ...

  21. How to Write a Literature Review

    Examples of literature reviews. Step 1 - Search for relevant literature. Step 2 - Evaluate and select sources. Step 3 - Identify themes, debates, and gaps. Step 4 - Outline your literature review's structure. Step 5 - Write your literature review.

  22. Literature Resource Center

    Subjects: Biography, Language and Literature, Criticism and Theory, English and American Literature, Poetry, History Notes: <p>The Literature Resource Center is a literature reference database. It features information on literary figures from all time periods in such genres as fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, history, journalism, and more.

  23. Tutorials & Tools for Literature Reviews

    Translating Searches Between Databases. Searching in a comprehensive, systematic way requires authors to execute analogous searches in multiple databases, but not all databases accept the same search syntax, and most databases use different vocabulary for subject headings (or don't use subject headings at all).

  24. A Research Guide for Systematic Literature Reviews

    One of the first steps in the research process is searching for published systematic reviews on your topic. You'll want to avoid finding out that there is already a published review on your exact topic after doing all the planning & searching.. There are a number of good databases to search for published systematic reviews.

  25. A-Z Databases

    A-Z list of topic-specific research databases. Read NYT, WSJ, WaPo & More. Current subscriptions & historical newspapers. E-journals. A-Z list of digital journal titles. ... Empowering research and learning through user-focused collections, services, and spaces. Technical Infrastructure. Data Centers, Cloud, Phone, and Networking.

  26. Research Tip 3: Find Articles

    The literature of Communicative Sciences and Disorders is primarily indexed in MEDLINE (via PubMed), Web of Science, and PsycINFO, linked in the box below. When choosing a database to start your literature search, consider the topic. Is it more biomedical (e.g., speech loss related to CNS tumors)? → MEDLINE via PubMed is a good place to start

  27. Research Databases: Literature

    Research Databases: Literature. Off-campus access: the system will prompt you to enter your 14-digit library barcode number located on the back of your college ID/library card. No college ID or library card? Request a college ID or library card barcode number.

  28. Databases

    Literature Databases. Bloom's Literature This link opens in a new window. A source for literary research on writers and their works throughout history and the world. Content is obtained from Facts On Files print literature collection, Harold Blooms essays, and critical articles published by noted scholars under the Blooms Literary Criticism ...

  29. Interdisciplinary CMU Project Restores Access to Essential Humanities

    Before October 28, 2023, the University Libraries' Curator of Special Collections Sam Lemley made frequent use of an online resource called the "English Short Title Catalogue" (ESTC) in his research. A key database for scholars like Lemley investigating English literature, bibliography, and the history of the book, the ESTC is a shared catalog devoted to books, serials, pamphlets, and ...

  30. Tutorials & Tools for Literature Reviews

    Translating Searches Between Databases. Searching in a comprehensive, systematic way requires authors to execute analogous searches in multiple databases, but not all databases accept the same search syntax, and most databases use different vocabulary for subject headings (or don't use subject headings at all).