List of academic databases and search engines

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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, or in repositories, archives, or other collections of scientific and other 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 lists below.

Name Discipline(s) Description Access Cost Provider(s)

Academic Multidisciplinary Student driven research abstracts, posters, articles,

Publications science (student free APeJ search [2]
science specific search engine, public forum [1]
eJournal based)
Several versions: Complete, Elite, Premier, and Alumni
Academic Search Multidisciplinary Subscription EBSCO Publishing [4]
Edition[3]
Aerospace & High Aerospace,
Technology Aeronautics, Subscription ProQuest[5]
Database Astronautics
Free
AJOL: African abstracts; [6]
Multidisciplinary African journals
Journals OnLine Subscription African Journals OnLine
full-text
EBSCO Publishing[9]
Sociology, Includes information on aging-related topics, including
AgeLine Subscription (http://www.ebscohost.com/thisTopic.php?
Gerontology economics, public health and policy.
marketID=2&topicID=23)
Produced by the United States National
AGRICOLA: Agricultural Library. Free access provided
Free &
Agricultural Online Agriculture
Subscription by NAL[7]. Subscription access provided
Access
by Proquest[8], OVID[9].
Covers agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, aquatic
sciences and fisheries, human nutrition, extension
AGRIS: literature from over 100 participating countries. Produced by the Food and Agriculture
Agricultural Agriculture Free Organization of the United Nations.
Material includes unique grey literature such as
database http://agris.fao.org AGRIS
unpublished scientific and technical reports, theses,
conference papers, government publications, and more.

Airiti Inc Multidisciplinary China, Taiwan. Subscription Airiti Inc [10]

Analytical
Chemistry Subscription Royal Society of Chemistry[11]
Abstracts
National Science Digital Library and the
Analytical sciences Analytical
Free Analytical Chemistry Division of the
digital library sciences
American Chemical Society[12]
Anthropological
Anthropology Index only (no abstracts or full-text). Free Royal Anthropological Institute [13]
Index Online
Anthropological
Anthropology
Literature
Anthropology, Include full access to electronic documents (eBooks
eLum Index Online Archaeology, and eJournals) about Anthropology, Archaeology & Subscription Syllaba Press [14]
Sociology Sociology Research in Latin America(full-text).
Free to Harvard Maintained by
faculty, staff and Harvard
students. University.
Subscription for Non-Harvard
non-Harvard access provided
access. by OCLC[15]
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 German Archaeological Institute & the
Archaeology,
Arachne German language Free University of Cologne, administered by
Art history
Reinhard Foertsch[16]
Computer Online service used to index and search academic social
Arnetminer
Science networks
Free Tsinghua University[17]

Arts & Humanities Arts,

Part of Web of Science Subscription Thomson Reuters [18]
Citation Index Humanities
Physics,
Mathematics,
Computer
science,
arXiv Nonlinear Free Cornell University[19]
sciences,
Quantitative
biology and
Statistics
Association for
Computer
Computing
Science, Subscription Association for Computing Machinery[20]
Machinery Digital
Engineering
Library
Astrophysics,
Astrophysics Data
Geophysics, Free Harvard University[21]
System
Physics
Provides information on topics such as biblical studies,
ATLA Religion Religious
world religions, church history, and religion in social Subscription [22]
Database studies
issues
AULIMP: Air
University
Military Science Free Air University[23]
Library's Index to
Military Periodicals
BASE: Bielefeld
Academic Search Multidisciplinary Free Bielefeld University [24]
Engine
Organic Available from Elsevier under the product
Beilstein database Subscription
chemistry name Reaxys [25]
A complete collection of bibliographic references
Biological
Biology covering life science and biomedical research literature Subscription Available from Thomson Reuters [26]
Abstracts
published from more than 4,000 journals internationally.
Free Abstract
&
Biology, An aggregation of over 78,000 peer-reviewed, full-text References,
Ecology, and articles on current research in Biodiversity Subscription
BioOne Available from BioOne[27]
Environmental Conservation, Biology, Ecology, Plant Sciences, Collections,
Science Entomology, Ornithology, and Zoology. and an Open
Access
Collection
Available from Liebel-Lab [10] (http://liebel-
Bioinformatic Biology, A meta search engine for 50 major bioinformatic
Free lab.fzk.de) KIT Karlsruhe Institute of
Harvester Bioinformatics databases and projects.
Technology [11] (http://harvester.fzk.de)
Book Review
Book reviews Subscription Thomson Gale[28]
Index Online
Books In Print Books Subscription R.R. Bowker[29]
Chemical
Chemistry Subscription American Chemical Society[30]
Abstracts Service
ChemXSeer Chemistry Free Pennsylvania State University[31]
Chinese Social
Science Citation Social sciences Subscription Nanjing University[32]
Index
Medicine, Includes reviews of research to promote evidence-
Cochrane Library Subscription Wiley Interscience[33]
Healthcare based healthcare.
CINAHL:

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Cumulative Index Nursing, Allied Subscription EBSCO[34]
to Nursing and Health
Allied Health
CHBD:
Circumpolar
Health Medicine Free University of Calgary[35]
Bibliographic
Database
Mathematics,
Computer
Citebase Search
science,
Semi-autonomous citation index of free online research Free University of Southampton[36]
Physics
Computer
CiteSeer Replaced by CiteSeerX. Free Pennsylvania State University[37]
Science
Computer
CiteSeerX
Science
Free Pennsylvania State University[38]

CogPrints:
Science
Cognitive Sciences Free University of Southampton[39]
(General)
Eprint Archives
The Collection of
Computer
Computer Science Free Alf-Christian Achilles[40]
science
Bibliographies
Compendex Engineering Electronic version of Engineering Index. Subscription Elsevier[41]
Current Index to American Statistical Association and the
Statistics Limited free search[42] Subscription
Statistics Institute of Mathematical Statistics [43]
Part of Web of Knowledge. Contains 7 discipline-
Current Contents Multidisciplinary Subscription Thompson Reuters [44]
specific subsets.
Directory of Open
Journals Free Lund University[45]
Access Journals
Computer Comprehensive list of papers from major computer
DBLP science conferences and journals Free University of Trier, Germany
science
The American Economic Association's electronic Produced by the American Economic
EconLit Economics database, the world's foremost source of references to Subscription Association [46]. Available from CSA,
economic literature. DIALOG, OCLC, OVID, and AEA. [47]
Biomedicine, Biomedical database with a strong focus on drug and
EMBASE Subscription Elsevier[48]
Pharmacology pharmaceutical research.
ERIC: Educational Produced by the United States Department
Education literature and resources. Provides access to
Resource Education
over 1.3 million records dating back to 1966.
Free of Education[49]. Also available by
Information Center subscription from OCLC, CSA.
Food science, Produced by the International Food
Food Science and Information Service. Access provided by
Food The world's leading database of information on food
Technology Subscription OVID, Web of Knowledge, Dialog,
technology, science, food technology and nutrition
Abstracts
Nutrition DataStar and STN International[50]
FOREASt: Free
Covers over 300 free and open access resources for
Open Resources East Asian
studying China, Japan, and Korea, including online Free Internet East Asian Library[51]
for East Asian Studies
databases, digital collections, and open access journals.
Studies
A business research engine, indexing 728 open-access
Business
Fuse ejournals and similar open sources. Does not search Free Fuse[52]
research papers
press releases or trade magazines.
Descriptions of women's history collections from
Women's
GENESIS
history
sources in the UK, as well as women's history Free London Metropolitan University[53]
websites.
German Education A bibliographical database that provides comprehensive Coordinating Office of the German
Education Free
Index references to all areas of education. Education Index[54]
Google Scholar Multidisciplinary Free Google[55]
GoPubMed Medicine Free Transinsight GmbH [56]
An alternative interface to the PubMed medical literature
HubMed Medicine Free Alf Eaton[57]
database

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 Computer
IEEE Xplore Science, Subscription IEEE [58]
Engineering,
Electronics
The Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical
Information provides free public access to over
Information
266,000 full-text documents and bibliographic citations
Bridge:
of Department of Energy (DOE) research report United States Department of Energy, Office
Department of
Multidisciplinary literature. Documents are primarily from 1991 forward Free
Energy Scientific of Scientific and Technical Information[59]
and Technical and were produced by DOE, the DOE contractor
Information community, and/or DOE grantees. Legacy documents
are added as they become available in electronic format.

Australasian aggregator of bibliographic databases and RMIT

Informit Multidisciplinary
journals Publishing[60]
United States search engine of academic sites approved
Infotopia Multidisciplinary Free Dr. Michael Bell[61]
by librarians, teachers, and consortia
Free
searching; [62]
IngentaConnect Multidisciplinary
Subscription Ingenta
full-text
The leading bibliographic database providing abstracts
Physics, and indexing to the world's scientific and technical
Engineering, papers in physics, electrical engineering, electronics,
Inspec Subscription IET [63]
Computer communications, control engineering, computing,
Science information technology, manufacturing, production, and
mechanical engineering.
Open access books and journals in science, technology
InTechOpen Multidisciplinary
and medicine.
Free InTech[64]

Contains information on university philosophy

International
departments and programs, philosophical societies,
Directory of Philosophy Subscription Philosophy Documentation Center[65]
research centers, journals, and philosophy publishers
Philosophy
around the world.
Serves students, teachers, and researchers in UK
further education and higher education, offering a
Intute Multidisciplinary selection of around 300,000 academic websites which Free Intute[66]
have been hand-picked and described by subject
specialists.
Allows the searching of the full-text of all academic
Arts and
Intwine
Humanities
websites catalogued by the Intute arts and humanities Free Intwine[67]
service from 2005–2010.
Links to
journal's
JournalSeek Multidisciplinary Open access journals in different language home page JournalSeek[68]
and
publishers
JSTOR: Journal Multidisciplinary
Subscription JSTOR[69]
Storage (Historical)
Arts and Search and retrieve the full-text of over 3,600 scholarly
JURN Free JURN[70]
Humanities ejournals in the arts and humanities.
MathSciNet Mathematics Available in print as Mathematical Reviews Subscription American Mathematical Society[71]
Produced by the United States National
Library of Medicine, the United States
MedlinePlus Medicine Free National Institutes of Health, and the United
States Department of Health and Human
Services [72]
Produced by Merck & Co.. Available from
Chemistry,
CambridgeSoft Corporation, Dialog,
Merck Index Biology, Also available in print. Subscription Knovel, MedicinesComplete, STN
Pharmacology
International[73]
Meteorological and Meteorology, Produced by the American Meteorological
Geoastrophysical Astrophysics, Subscription Society. Available from Dialog[74] and
Abstracts Geology
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 Computer CSA[75].
Science and a Provides many innovative ways to explore scientific
Microsoft
limited extent on Free Microsoft
Academic Search papers, conferences, journals, and authors [76]
information
science
NBER: National
Bureau of
Economic
Economics Free National Bureau of Economic Research[77]
Research
National Criminal
Criminology, Abstracts of scholarly journal articles, agency and NGO United States Department of Justice, Office
Justice Reference Free
Sociology reports, and conference proceedings of Justice Programs [79]
Service[78]
National Diet
Library Collection
Multidisciplinary Japanese. Catalog for the National Library of Japan. National Diet Library[80]

OAIster Multidisciplinary Free OCLC [81]

Computer
Science,
A web portal for academic search and rank and
Odysci Academic Electrical
Search Engineering and
technical collaboration, in the computer science, Free Odysci [82]
electrical engineering and related research topics.
related research
topics
Open Access Open Access Journals Search Engine
Provides Searching and Browsing of Open Access
Journals Search Multidisciplinary Free
Journals (OAJSE). [83]
Engine (OAJSE)
Open J-Gate Journals Index of open access journals Free Informatics India Ltd. [84]
Institut de l'Information Scientifique et
OpenSIGLE Grey literature Indexes European grey literature. Free
Technique[85]
Applied ethics,
Philosophy
Philosophy, Journals, series, conference proceedings, and other
Documentation Subscription Philosophy Documentation Center[86]
Religious works from several countries.
Center eCollection
studies
Philosophy Index of books, journals, disserations, and other
Philosophy Subscription Philosophy Documentation Center[87]
Research Index documents
PhilPapers Philosophy Free PhilPapers [88]
POIESIS:
Philosophy Documentation Center [89] and
Philosophy Online Philosophy Journals and series Subscription
Serials InteLex Corporation [90]
The largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature
in behavioral science and mental health. It contains over Produced by the APA[91]. Available from
PsycINFO Psychology Subscription
2.6 million citations and summaries dating as far back several database vendors. [92]
as the early 19th century.
National Institutes of Health and the U.S.
PubMed Medicine Free
National Library of Medicine[93]
National Center for Biotechnology
PubChem Chemistry Free Information and the U.S. National Library
of Medicine [94]
Readers' Guide to
Journals and
Periodical Coverage: 1983–present. Subscription H. W. Wilson Company[95]
Magazines
Literature
Reader's Guide
Journals and
Retrospective: Subscription H. W. Wilson Company[96]
Magazines
1890–1982
RePEc: Research
Papers in Economics Free Volunteer Collaboration [97]
Economics
Subscription.
Limited free
Rock's Backpages Music Primary documents from the history of rock and roll Backpages Limited[98]
access with
registration.
Citations and abstracts of journal articles and reports San Diego State University Graduate School
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 from researchers working in the more than 35 distinct of Public Health[100] and the World Health
SafetyLit[99] Multidisciplinary professional disciplines (architecture - zoology) relevant Free
Organization, Department of Violence and
to preventing unintentional injuries, violence, and self-
Injury Prevention[101]
harm.
Science.gov Alliance, 18 scientific and
A gateway to government science information and technical organizations from 14 federal
research results. Science.gov provides a search of over agencies that contribute to Science.gov.
Science.gov Multidisciplinary 45 scientific databases and 200 million pages of science Free United States Department of Energy, Office
information with just one query, and is a gateway to of Scientific and Technical Information
over 2000 scientific Websites. serves as the operating agent for
Science.gov. [102]
United States Department of Energy, Office
Science A gateway to results of DOE research and development
Multidisciplinary Free of Scientific and Technical Information.
Accelerator and major R&D accomplishments of interest to DOE. [103]
Science Citation Science
Part of Web of Science Subscription Thompson Reuters [104]
Index (General)
ScienceDirect Multidisciplinary Subscription Elsevier[105]
Science
Scirus
(General)
Free Elsevier[106]

Scopus Multidisciplinary Subscription Elsevier[107]

Journal articles, conferences' proceedings, theses,
SeDiCI UNLP
[108]
Multidisciplinary pictures and all the Intellectual Creation from the Free National University of La Plata[109]
National University of La Plata
Social Science
Social science Part of Web of Science Subscription Thompson Reuters [110]
Citation Index
Free
abstracts;
Socol@r: Socolar Multidisciplinary Scholarly open access resources in different language Socolar[111]
Links to full-
text
SSRN: Social
Contains an abstracts database and a electronic paper Social Science Electronic Publishing,
Science Research Social science Free
collection, arranged by discipline. Inc.[112]
Network
SSRRN: Social
Science Research Social Science Research Resources
Social science Indexes datasets and statistical codes Free
Resources Network =[113]
Network
Physics, (High Stanford Linear Accelerator Center &
SPIRES-HEP Free
Energy) partners [114]
Free abstract
& preview;
SpringerLink Multidisciplinary Springer [115]
Subscription
full-text
Free.
Computer Aggregates
TDG Scholar The Distributed Group[116]
science scholarly
articles.
Allows anyone to teach and learn online through videos,
Udemy Multidisciplinary Free Udemy
webinars, forums, and more.
Ulrich's Periodicals
Periodicals] Subscription Proquest[117]
Directory
Biomedicine, Categories indexed: Protocols, Online tools,
VADLO Free VADLO[118]
Life science Powerpoints, Databases, Software
Web of Includes other products, such as Web of Science,
Multidisciplinary Subscription Thomson Reuters [119]
Knowledge Biological Abstracts & The Zoological Record
Science Includes other products, such as Social Science
Web of Science (General) Subscription Thomson Reuters [120]
Citation Index & Science Citation Index.
WestLaw Law (General) Subscription Thomson Reuters
Free and
WorldCat Multidisciplinary Unified catalog of member libraries' catalogs Subscription OCLC[121]
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 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
WorldWideScience Multidisciplinary
searching of databases from around the world.
Multilingual WorldWideScience provides real-time
searching and translation of globally-dispersed
multilingual scientific literature.
Zasshi Kiji Sakuin:
Japanese Journals Japanese.
Periodicals Index
Zentralblatt MATH Mathematics First three records free without subscription.
The Zoological Unofficial register of scientific names & papers in
Zoology
Record Zoology. Coverage 1864–present.
The WorldWideScience Alliance, a
multilateral partnership, consists of
participating member countries and
provides the governance structure for
Free
WorldWideScience. United States
Department of Energy, Office of Scientific
and Technical Information serves as the
operating agent for WorldWideScience.
[122]
National Diet Library's Online Catalog[123],
MagazinePlus[124], CiNii[125]
Subscription Springer Science+Business Media[126]
Subscription Thompson Reuters [127]
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