Research Database Directory

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IEEE Xplore

The definitive index for electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics — standards included.

Tier 2 AcademicSubscription

ERIC

The free, authoritative index for education research and practice.

Tier 2 Open AccessFree

PsycINFO

The American Psychological Association's index — the standard for psychology and behavioral science.

Tier 2 AcademicSubscription

CINAHL

The core index for nursing and allied health literature.

Tier 3 AcademicSubscription

Cochrane Library

The home of systematic reviews — the gold standard for evidence in healthcare.

Tier 2 AcademicSubscription

Embase

Elsevier's biomedical index — pharmacology-deep and built for systematic reviews.

Tier 2 AcademicSubscription

CORE

The world's largest aggregator of open-access research — full text at scale.

Tier 2 Open AccessFree

Connected Papers

A visual map of a research field — find the papers around the one you already know.

Tier 3 ToolsFreemium

ResearchGate

The academic social network where researchers share papers — and their metrics.

Tier 3 ToolsFree

HathiTrust

A massive digital library of scanned books — the scholarly record, digitized.

Tier 3 Open AccessFreemium