Thanks, in part, to the rise of open access journals, librarians should be actively investigating new discovery tools that will allow convenient access to this area of scholarly research. The Directory of Open Access Journals is a good place to start and the following list of search tools might also be handy.
15 Open Search Tools On The Web
- Agricola - agriculture and allied disciplines
- arXiv - Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology and Statistics
- CiteSeerX - computer and information science
- Entrez - Life sciences search engine - meta-search tool
- ERIC Education Search - education research
- Google scholar - largest open tool searching across academic disciplines
- IngentaConnect - a range of items across academic disciplines
- Lalisio literature
- arXiv, PubMedCentral & IngentaConnect - NLM Gateway - search all NLM files, biomedicine, bioinformatics
- OAIster - open access and institutional repository meta-search tool
- PubMed - biomedicine and allied fields
- PubMedCentral - open access repository in biomedicine
- Scirus - science, Elsevier content, PubMed
- Scitopia - science-technology, plus patents and government data
- SumSearch - evidence-based meta-search tool, U.S.
- TRIP Database - evidence-based meta-search tool, U.K. content
Search tool list found at The Search Principle Blog
Also JURN: http://jurn.org/ - which searches over 2300 titles in the arts and humanities that offers all of some free content.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the info. These are the resources I have been looking for.
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