Research Database Directory

Every research database, reviewed.

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JSTOR

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

Tier 2 AcademicSubscription

IEEE Xplore

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

Tier 2 AcademicSubscription

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

Scopus

Elsevier's curated abstract and citation database — Web of Science's biggest rival, and broader in scope.

Tier 1 AcademicSubscription

Dimensions

Digital Science's linked-data platform — the database that connects publications to the grants, patents, clinical trials, and policy documents around them.

Tier 1 AcademicFreemium

Google Scholar

The free front door to scholarship — vast, frictionless, and quietly imprecise.

Tier 2 AcademicFree

Web of Science

Clarivate's publisher-neutral citation index — six decades of curated, cover-to-cover indexing built around the citation as the unit of discovery.

Tier 1 AcademicSubscription
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