Before you dive into searching library resources or Google Scholar, consider your research topic or question:
Use Boolean operators to narrow or expand your search scope:
Google Scholar searches scholarly sources like academic publishers, professional societies, repositories, university websites, and more. Instead of their typical Google algorithms, Google Scholar uses rankings with more weight given to the full text, author, publication location, and citation in other scholarly literature.
Features 3 concise, self-paced modules to guide novice researchers through searching for and using appropriate sources in writing.
These self-paced modules are especially useful for those wishing to increase their research impact. Topics include funding and grant writing, technical writing skills, finding the right journal for your manuscript, and more.
Provides reviews of current mathematical literature published worldwide and includes some material in computer science, physics, and astronomy.
Provides full-text for over 190 scholarly journals covering the humanities, law, life and physical sciences, mathematics, medicine, and the social sciences.
An abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
Provides full-text access to hundreds of journals and ebooks covering science, medicine, humanities, and social science.
An open-access archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics.
The DOAJ is an index of open access journals, which you can search or browse by subject. From the website: DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone.