Mar 7, 2018 - A CUSTOMIZED SEARCH ENGINE: http://goo.gl/fA1re (retrieves Scholarly. Materials of all types; all trustwor
NEW (FREE!) OPEN SOURCE DATABASES AND SEARCH ENGINES: 2018 VERSION Here are just a few of the sites any student, life-long learner or scholar should investigate
A CUSTOMIZED SEARCH ENGINE: http://goo.gl/fA1re (retrieves Scholarly Materials of all types; all trustworthy) LIBGUIDES: www.libguides.com for locating valuable and time-saving Resource Guides on all subjects/topics Listing of OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (OER) Databases: each is clearly labelled and includes the subject area focus of each database. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_eng ines
Journal Articles: www.jurn.org
Open Access Journals Search Engine: http://www.oajse.com/
: FREE, FULL TEXT ARTICLES: RESEARCH TREASURES!
DOAJ: www.doaj.org DIRECTORY OF OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS (access to the free, full text contents of over 11,500 journals and magazines) Legal / Law / Legislative Database: http://network.bepress.com/law/ ArXiv, http://arxiv.org/ The arXiv e-print article database has over one million articles. It was initially created to allow physicists to receive feedback on their preprints before submitting them to peer-reviewed journals. The archive now includes physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, and statistics. The archive is free to use or post to (after creating a login account) and fully automated, with hundreds of new submissions posted daily. The database i s easy to navigate, with browsing, basic, and advanced search functionality. The arXiv website and help screens offer a powerful tool for researchers researching current information.
To increase discoverability also use Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/
www.ssrn.com THE SOCIAL SCIENCES RESEARCH NETWORK –SSRN --over 920,000 papers and scholarly articles, published worldwide. Covers all the Social Sciences, plus Health / Medicine / Law. Requires a login, but registration is free. DIGITAL COMMONS NETWORK http://network.bepress.com (best for Browsing articles in subject areas; does not have a useful search engine) OPEN ACCESS THESES AND DISSERTATIONS: www.oatd.org -- an extremely effective Database and Search Engine for the retrieval of theses and dissertations, worldwide: www.oatd.org –well over 3.0 million theses and dissertations in free, full text format OAIster: http://oaister.worldcat.org – searches over 19 million resources in all subject areas many completely digitized. Journal TOCs http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/ [TOCs -= TABLE OF CONTENTS] for all subject areas ERIC: EDUCATION RESOURCES INFORMATION CLEARINGHOUSE: excellent for finding LESSON PLANS http://eric.ed.gov/ Contains thousands of free text articles in the fields of Education, Educational Technology, STEM and related fields. STANFORD’S HIGH WIRE PRESS – a free Open Access database on all STEM TOPICS (SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, MATH) HighWire Press offers access to well over 2.5 million free full-text articles A list of journals with free full-text articles online is available. Roughly 40% to 50% of the material found on this website is freely downloadable. To search
Highwire, go to http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/search
OTHER FREE, OPEN ACCESS SCIENCE / MATH DATABASES: http://arximedes.org/ https://www.scienceopen.com/ http://worldwidescience.org/ http://www.isciencesearch.com/ http://pubs.acs.org/editorschoice/ DASH: DIGITAL ACCESS TO SCHOLARSHIP AT HARVARD [UNIVERSITY]: http://dash.harvard.edu Access to the publications of Harvard Faculty and Graduate Students, all in full text format! Freely and easily downloadable! NEW SEARCH ENGINES FOR YOU TO EXPLORE: A NEW ACADEMIC SEARCH ENGINE for retrieving PhD Dissertations, Master's Theses, Honor's Theses, and Specialized Academic Research Studies is now available http://www.opendoar.org/search.php
THINK TANK SEARCH ENGINE: THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES CREATED A SEARCH ENGINE FOR THINK TANKS and for locating Policy Statements: http://guides.library.harvard.edu/hks/think_tank_search (the search engine covers over 700 Think Tanks and Research Centers -- covering thousands of publications, articles, reports, thought pieces, editorials, etc.)
GOOGLE ADVANCED SEARCH: www.google.com/advanced_search Don’t forget to put .edu in the Site or Domain field inside Google Advanced’s convenient template. BIELEFELD ACADEMIC SEARCH ENGINE (BASE) http://www.basesearch.net/ The Bielefeld Academic Search Engine(BASE) is freely accessible and accesses over 70 million documents. Simple yet powerful, BASE offers a Basic Search, Advanced Search, and Browsing options. Typing The Advanced Search option can be searched by ti tle, author, subjects, as well as document types (books, articles, maps, software, etc.). This is an excellent resource for scouring the web for new and better source documents. Use the Advanced Search menu http://www.basesearch.net/
HOW TO SEARCH THE LITERATURE: A RECOMMENDED TUTORIAL FOR STUDENTS EMBARKING ON A RESEARCH PROJECT: http://lancaster.libguides.com/content.php?pid=302885 A LESSON PLAN AND TUTORIAL FOR CRITICAL THINKING: http://avhslibrary.libguides.com/content.php?pid=303700 FREE TEXTBOOKS: and WRITING RESOURCES and HANDOUTS http://amspaces.pbworks.com/w/page/82151407/BOOKS%20ON%20WRI TING MORE (and Updated!) RESOURCES AVAILABLE VIA: https://goo.gl/YW4j5V
Compiled by former Accra IRO Stephen Perry, Last revised March 7, 2018
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