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new-age academic search engine, using machine learning to prioritize the searching of most important
research as well as to find relevant literature. It is designed to highlight the most important and
influential papers, and to identify the connections between them. In Semantic Scholar’s own words, it
uses influential citations, images, and key phrases to “cut through the clutter”. At present it has more
than 175 million scholarly documents, each of the paper hosted by it is assigned a unique identifier

called the Semantic Scholar Corpus.

PubMed

PubMed, maintained by National Institutes of Health (US), is the primary resource for anyone looking
for literature in medicine or biological sciences. It stores abstracts and bibliographic details of more
than 30 million papers and provides full text links to the publisher sites or links to the free PDF
on PubMed Central (PMC). Its web site PubMed.gov is also maintained by NIH (US).

Education Resources Information Centre (ERIC)

Provided by the US Department of Education, ERIC is the primary destination for education sciences.
It is a database that specifically hosts education-related literature covering almost 1.3 million items,
which are freely accessible.

Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

SSRN is a database for research from the social sciences and humanities. The database includes almost
a million research papers, from 30 disciplines . Most of these are available for free, although you may
need to sign up as a member (also free) to access some services.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

DOAJ is very special academic database since all the indexed articles can be accessed freely. It
covers approximately 4.5 million items spanning a large number of disciplines. The DOAJ is one of
the top general indexing databases in terms of use and reputation that journals can usually apply for
relatively early in their publication life. With nearly 12,000 journal members, over 1.2 million visitors
every month, and a continually updating stream of journal metadata the DOAJ is a powerful platform
for searching quality literature.

Journal Storage (JSTOR)

Subscription free, JSTOR is another great resource to find research papers. It is a unique source of
old academic literature. Any article published in the United States, before 1924, is available for free. It
covers approximately 12 million items in different disciplines. It is provided by ITHAKA, which is a US
not-for-profit organization with a mission to help the academic community use digital technologies to
preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways.

IEEE Xplore

IEEE Xplore is the leading academic database in the field of engineering and computer science.
It allows searching of not only journal articles but also conference papers and books. It contains

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