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ArXiv

Type: Database
Status: Public
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Description: To access the grey literature. The famous archives in free access (physics, math, computer science, non linear science, and biology.)
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Century of Science

Type: Database
Status: Commercial
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Description: Launched in January 2005, the Century of Science initiative makes hundreds of thousands of older, twentieth century scientific journal items...
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Elsevier

Building Insights, Breaking Boundaries
Type: Search Engine
Status: Public
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Description: Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. Working in partnership with the...
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Google scholar

Type: Search Engine
Status: Public
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Description: Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and...
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ISI Web of Knowledge

Type: Database
Status: Commercial
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Description: ISI Web of Knowledge, an integrated, versatile research platform, delivers easy access to high quality, diversified scholarly information in...
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Journal citation report

Type: Database
Status: Commercial
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Description: Journal Citation Reports presents quantifiable statistical data that provides a systematic, objective way to evaluate the world's leading journals...
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Los alamos research library

Type: Database
Status: Public
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Description: You can search Databases by alphabetic order. see also SEARCHPLUS where you can find articles, abstracts, bibliographies, citations, and related...
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MDConsult

Type: Database
Status: Free Trial
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Description: MD Consult brings the leading medical resources together into one integrated online service to help physicians efficiently find answers to clinical...
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Medline Plus

Trusted Health Information for You
Type: Website
Status: Public
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Description: Originated in 1998; National Library of Medicine's selective list of authoritative health information sources from the National Institutes of...
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Nature precedings

Pre-publication research and preliminary findings
Type: Database
Status: Public
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Description: Nature Precedings is a place for researchers to share pre-publication research, unpublished manuscripts, presentations, posters, white papers,...
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Paper of record

Building the World's Largest Searchable Archive of Historical Newspapers
Type: Database
Status: Public
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Description: Free access - Dates vary; full text of historical newspapers from the early 1800s to the mid 1900s. Free registration required.
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Public Library of science

Type: Database
Status: Public
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Description: A nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public...
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Science Accelerator

Type: Search Engine
Status: Public
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Description:  Science Accelerator searches science, including R&D results, project descriptions, accomplishments, and more, via resources made...
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Science direct

Type: Database
Status: Commercial
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Description: ScienceDirect offers more than a quarter of the world's scientific, medical and technical information online. Over 2,000 peer-reviewed journals....
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Science Studies Search Engine

Type: Search Engine
Status: Public
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Description: This custom search engine, implemented using Google Co-op (http://google.com/coop/ ), searches across across all sites supporting or relevant to...
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Science watch

Tracking Trends and Performance in Basic Research
Type: Website
Status: Public
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Description: ISI web of knowledge package - Web version of Thomson Scientific Science Watch® - a subscription newsletter that uses the unique citation data...
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SCIRUS

for scientific information only
Type: Search Engine
Status: Public
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Description: Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, Scirus searches...
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SCOPUS

refine your research
Type: Database
Status: Free Trial
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Description: Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources. It's designed to find the information...
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Web of Science

Type: Database
Status: Commercial
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Description: The Web of Science provides seamless access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,700 of the most...
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Wikipedia

the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit
Type: Website
Status: Public
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Description: A community-built encyclopedia with over 2,000,000 articles. Note that because articles can be freely edited, information on Wikipedia is not...
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