Scholarly Search Engine and directories


  • BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (Open Access)
    BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic open access web resources. BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library
    http://www.base-search.net/
  • ChemSpider
    ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast text and structure search access to over 30 million structures from hundreds of data sources
    http://www.chemspider.com/
  • CiteSeerx (Open Access)
    Citeseerx is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science. Citeseerx aims to improve the dissemination of scientific literature and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness in the access of scientific and scholarly knowledge
    https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/
  • CORE
    CORE (Connecting Repositories ) aims to facilitate free access to scholarly publications distributed across many systems. As of today, CORE gives you access to millions of scholarly articles aggregated from many Open Access repositories
    http://core.kmi.open.ac.uk/search 
  • Google Scholar
  • Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines
    http://www.google.com/schhp?hl=en
  • OALib: Open Access Library
    OALib has a Search Engine, a Journal, an Index, and a Repository with OALib PrePrints and external preprints and postprints, all kept in one of the 322 OALib Disciplinary Repositories.
    http://www.oalib.com/
  • PubMed (Partially Open Access)
    PubMed comprises more than 34 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed
  • ScienceOpen
    ScienceOpen is a discovery platform with interactive features for scholars to improve their research, make an impact, and get credit. We help publishers build context for researchers.
    https://www.scienceopen.com/