Research Database Directory

Every research database, reviewed.

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GeoRef

The American Geosciences Institute's index — the core database for the earth sciences.

Tier 3 AcademicSubscription

SciFinder (CAS)

Chemistry's authoritative discovery tool — substances, reactions, and the literature, from CAS.

Tier 2 AcademicSubscription

Reaxys

Elsevier's chemistry database — excerpted reaction, substance, and property data for research and synthesis.

Tier 2 CorporateSubscription

SPORTDiscus

The core index for sports, exercise, and sports-medicine research.

Tier 3 AcademicSubscription

PhilPapers

The comprehensive, community-curated index and archive of philosophy.

Tier 2 Open AccessFree

EconLit

The American Economic Association's index — the curated standard for economics literature.

Tier 2 AcademicSubscription

Project MUSE

Full-text humanities and social-science journals and books — a nonprofit complement to JSTOR.

Tier 2 AcademicSubscription

CNKI

China's largest research database — journals, theses, and more, and often the only route to Chinese scholarship.

Tier 2 CorporateSubscription

Ovid

Wolters Kluwer's search platform — one rigorous interface over many biomedical databases.

Tier 2 CorporateSubscription

SciELO

The open-access library of Latin American, Caribbean, and allied science — free, full-text, multilingual.

Tier 2 Open AccessFree