50 Scholar Search Engines and Sources Websites
In academic and professional writing, it is expected to use scholarly texts as sources for one’s work. Scholarly sources are those that are written by experts in a field, for experts in that field. According to R.G. Easterly III et al, “a source is most likely scholarly if it meets the following criteria:
1. If the source is an article, it comes from a peer-reviewed journal.
2. If it is a research article, it should it should be written in the IMRaD format (Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion). These are known as empirical studies. Literature reviews
(meta-analyses), theoretical articles, methodological articles, and case studies may also be considered scholarly.
3. The author of the source should cite specific theories and their sources.
4. The source should include specialized vocabulary that is intended for a scholarly audience. (Newspapers and magazines are not intended for scholarly audiences).
5. The source provides author name(s) and institutional affiliations.
6. The journal or book should be published by a professional organization or academic institution.’’
In the view of the fact that it is usually tedious finding scholarly sources, I have tried to provide 50 different websites--including university libraries’ websites and others--where one can find scholarly sources.
Scholarly Search Engine/Scholarly Sources for all Discipline/General Information
1. http://www.academicindex.net/
2. http://www.academicinfo.net/
3. http://www.tulane.edu/~lmiller/search.htm
4. http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/ - contain archives owned by UK universities
5. http://dsej.arl.org/dsej/ - This is a directory of Scholarly Electronic Journal and it is owned by Association of Research Libraries.
6. http://www4.infotrieve.com/search/databases/newsearch.asp - An excellent fee based collection of scholarly content.
7. http://services.inist.fr/public/eng/conslt.htm
8. http://arxiv.org/multi?group=cs&%2Ffind=Search – this is owned by Cornell University and covers discipline like mathematics, quantitative biology, computer science etc.
9. http://adt.caul.edu.au/ - this contained information from more than 30 Australian universities.
10. http://www.nla.gov.au/ajol/ - contained Australian information. It is owned by Australian national library.
12. http://www.uvm.edu/~bmaclenn/
14. http://carl-abrc-oai.lib.sfu.ca/ - owned Canadian Association of Research Libraries
15. http://www.foia.cia.gov/search_options.asp - this site by CIA and it contains information about United States Intelligence
16. http://cogprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/perl/search/simple
17. http://www.completeplanet.com/
18. http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/
19. http://www.fieldsofknowledge.com/index.html
20. http://www.fso-online.com/
21. http://www.gpoaccess.gov/multidb.html - provide information about Governments.
22. http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/search/ - this is good for searching journals
23. http://tigger.uic.edu/~rjensen/ - owned by Richard Jensen
24. http://infomine.ucr.edu/ - this is a virtual library that can be used by university staffs and students
25. http://www.jstor.org/ - this is owned by JSTOR—a nonprofit organization
26. http://www.loc.gov/z3950/ - this Library of Congress catalog search
27. http://www.mylitsearch.org/
29. http://www.inderscience.com/catalogue/
30. http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour/search.html -- this is mainly for journals and newsletter
Scholarly Search Engine/Scholarly Sources for Agricultural Science and Related Fields
31. http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/ - This a scholarly search engine for agricultural and sub disciplines.
32. http://orgprints.org/ - contain or organic agriculture related information
33. http://www.agricultureresources.info/
Scholarly Search Engine/Scholarly Sources for Social Sciences and Related Fields
34. http://www.all-academic.com/
35. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/DisplayAbstractSearch.cfm
Scholarly Search Engine/Scholarly Sources for Physics and Related Fields
37. http://arxiv.org/corr/home
38. http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour/search.html -- this contain NASA related information
Scholarly Search Engine/Scholarly Sources for History and Related Fields
39. http://www.americansouth.org/
40. http://nergal.grainger.uiuc.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx
Scholarly Search Engine/Scholarly Sources for Adult Education and Related Fields
Scholarly Search Engine for Literature
42. http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/
Scholarly Search Engine/Scholarly Sources for Sciences, Medicine and Related Fields
43. http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/
44. http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/
45. http://www.scienceresearch.com/
Scholarly Search Engine/Scholarly Sources for History and Related Fields
47. http://www.cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk/psycoloquy/ - owned by American Psychological Association
Scholarly Search Engine/Scholarly Sources for Business and Technology
48. http://cma.zdnet.com/texis/techinfobase/techinfobase
49. http://ecommerceresources.info/
50. http://www.entrepreneurialresources.info/
To learn more about academic and professional writing, consult the following links.
· Guidelines for Effective Professional and Academic Writing: A report by University of California on writing a professional and academic writing. It gives a succinct explanation to this topic.
· How to reference (a pdf document): This gives detailed explanations, with many examples, on how to reference when writing professionally.
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