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material mainly published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics (IEEE) and other partner
publishers. It provides web access to more than 5 million documents from publications in computer
science, electrical engineering, electronics, and allied fields. Its documents and other materials
comprise more than 300 peer-reviewed journals, more than 1,900 global conferences, more than
11,000 technical standards, almost 5,000 e-books, and over 500 online courses, with approximately
20,000 new documents being added every month. Anyone can search IEEE Xplore and find
bibliographic records and abstracts for its contents, while access to full-text documents requires an
individual or institutional subscription.

CORE

CORE is the world’s largest research aggregator of open-access research papers from around the
world. This means it works as a search engine for open-access research published by organizations
from around the world, all of which is available for free. More than 200 million papers are available
with fee access. It provides seamless access, through their unique Application Programming Interfaces,
to content and data, thus being a very useful resource for researchers.

E-Theses Online Service (EThOS)

EThOS is a unique catalogue of electronic theses provided by the British Library, the
National Library of the United Kingdom. As of March 2018, EThOS provides access to
approximately480,000 doctoral theses awarded by over 140 UK higher education institutions
(HEIs), with around 3000 new theses records added every month. Theses indexed by EThOS have
a minimum of a thesis title, author, awarding body and date, optional additional metadata may be
included such as the thesis abstract, doctoral advisor, sponsor, cross links to other databases and the
full text of the thesis itself. Run by the British Library, EThOS is a database of over 500,000 doctoral
theses. More than half of these are available for free, either directly via EThOS or via a link to a
university website.

The Indian Citation Index (ICI)

The global citation databases such as Web of Science and Scopus cover only a handful of Indian
academic journals, therefore there has always been a demand for home-grown online citation
databases for better visibility of scientific literature emanating from India. This is particularly true
in the case of journals from social sciences and humanities, which are not included in databases
such as WoS and Scopus. The ICI, launched in October 2009 by the Knowledge Foundation and
Diva Enterprises Pvt. Ltd., is a subscription-based knowledge portal, covers citation data since 2004
onwards. It is an online collection of multidisciplinary citation-cum-bibliographic databases covering
about 800 multidisciplinary academic journals, published from South Asia, particularly from India.

Preprint site arXiv

One of the first and popular online preprint archive sites, arXiv (http://arXiv.org) has been very
popular and in almost three decades of its existence has strongly influenced the course of research
in science. The sites arXiv.org, chemArxiv.com and bioRxiv.org, cover almost all branches of science.
In fact, most of the research papers in certain areas are available in the form of preprints, even before
these are published, and lately many journals want the paper to be registered with arXiv, before it is
processed for publication.

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