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

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

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

JSTOR

The digital archive of the humanities and social sciences — deep back-runs of the journals that define a field.

Tier 2 AcademicSubscription