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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.
AAAS Science has been at the center of important scientific discovery since its founding in 1880. Today, Science continues to publish the very best in research across the sciences, with articles that consistently rank among the most cited in the world.
An open-access archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics.
Provides access to a wide range of biology topics, including some of the most popular information resources for users in academic, government, and public research environments.
Gale OneFile: Gardening and Horticulture serves horticultural researchers and features articles and reference titles including Handbook of Flowers; Foliage and Creative Design; Computer Graphics for Landscape Architects; and more.
With thousands of videos published across several disciplines in science, medicine and engineering, the JoVE library provides clear, detailed illustrations of a vast range of scientific techniques and concepts.
Provides full-text access to hundreds of humanities, social science, and science scholarly books and journals.
Includes the Agricultural & Environmental Science and Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Databases. Provides full-text titles from around the world including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more.
From NCBI: Classification and nomenclature for all the organisms in NCBI’s public sequence databases. The scope of the Taxonomy database reflects the data that has been submitted.
Databases across major subject areas: business, health and medical, language and literature, social sciences, education, science and technology, performing and visual arts, history, religion, and philosophy. Also includes thousands of full-text global newspapers.
Features full-text ebooks and journals in the biological sciences, biochemistry & genetics, molecular biology, chemistry, immunology, medicine, neuroscience, nursing, pharmacology, physics, psychology, social science, veterinary science, economics, and other disciplines.
Includes: Natural Science Collection, Technology Collection, scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more.
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.