| Database | Description |
|---|---|
| Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) | The CGP is the finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive information for historical and current publications as well as direct links to the full document, when available. Users can search by authoring agency, title, subject, and general keywords, or click on "Advanced Search" for more options. |
| MetaLib GPO | The federated search engine MetaLib to retrieve reports, articles and citations by simultaneously searching across multiple U.S. Federal Government databases. |
| DiscoverGov | DiscoverGov provides simple, one-stop searching across multiple U.S. Federal Government databases including GPO's Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) and GovInfo. It will retrieve reports, articles, and citations while providing direct links to selected resources and publications available online. |
| PubMed | Medicine and Biological Sciences. Stores abstracts and bibliographic details on medicine or biological sciences of more than 30 million papers. Provides full text links to the publisher sites or links to the free PDF on PubMed Central (PMC). Access options: free. Provider: National Institutes of Health (NIH), the United States government's primary agency for biomedical and public health research. |
| ERIC | Education Resources Information Center (ERIC). Hosts education-related literature. Access options: free. Provider: U.S. Department of Education. |
| Paperpile | The top list of academic research databases · 1. Scopus · 2. Web of Science · 3. PubMed · 4. ERIC · 5. IEEE Xplore · 6. ScienceDirect · 7. Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) · 8. JSTOR |
| EBSCO | Research Databases. Provide essential research databases, e-journals, and e-books to researchers. Manage library technology, acquisitions & collection development. |
| JSTOR | Digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. Any article published before 1924 in the United States is available for free and JSTOR also offers scholarships for independent researchers. Provider: ITHAKA |
| IEEE Xplore | Engineering and computer science. It's not only journal articles, but also conference papers, standards and books that can be searched for. Access options: free. Provider: IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) |
| ScienceDirect | Contains 19.5 million academic articles published by Elsevier, 1.4 million of which are open access. Journals and books can be searched via a single interface. Access options: free. Provider: Elsevier |
| Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) | An open-access academic database that can be accessed and searched for free. |
| Scopus | Commercial repository of scholarly literature from almost any discipline. Access options: Limited free preview, full access by institutional subscription only. Provider: Elsevier. |
| Web of Science | Commercial repository of scholarly literature from almost any discipline. Access options: institutional subscription only. Provider: Clarivate (formerly Thomson Reuters) |
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