Search Engines & Science Web Resources

SCIENCES SEARCH ENGINES & SEARCHABLE WEB RESOURCES

Search Across multiple Publishers to find references for your research: 

• AJOL: African Journals Online (Peer-reviewed African Published Scholarly Journals)
• BASE – Bielefeld Academic Search Engine: This multi-disciplinary search engine focuses on academic research
• CiteSeer.IST: This search engine and digital library will help you find information within scientific literature
• Google Scholar: Meta Search Engine across multiple academic publishers; abstracts + full-text
• Hakia: Semantic search engine only accesses websites that are recommended by librarians
• HighWirePress (Hosts the largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content)
• Lumifi: For your Research (tools to annotate, organize, manage, share and eventually publish your research)
• OAIster (Search for digital items with this tool that provides 12 million resources from over 800 repositories)
• Open Science Directory: A-to-Z Open Access Journals (incl. DOAJ, BioMed Central, PubMed Central, HighWire Press, HINARI, AGORA, OARE, eJDS.
• Science Research
• Scirus: The most Comprehensive research engine. Elsevier product.
• Scitation: This “deep federated search” brings the best information from the fields of science and technology
• Scitopia.org (Deep web)(Search for scientific articles, Patents, Governmental information) 
• UJ Sciences Librarian on Delicious: Selected articles per subject topics/taggs
• Wolfram Alpha Knowledge Engine 
• WorldCat: Use this tool to find items in libraries including books, CDs, DVDs, and articles
• WorldWideScience.org (Global Science Gateway)
• “100 Useful Tips and Tools to Research the Deep Web”