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Academic Search Engines

Sweet Search

SweetSearch is A Search Engine for Students. It searches only credible Web sites approved by Internet research experts.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.

RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone.

The first multidisciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals and papers. Keep on top of recent discoveries and never hit a paywall.

ScienceOpen is a freely accessible research network to discover and evaluate scientific information. Search among over 27 million articles and article records, filter by citation or Altmetric score, and share your expertise via comments or peer review.

Unpaywall allows searchers to legally access full-text research papers from its index of ten million, legally loaded, open-access articles. The project currently shares that it is retrieving full-text content approximately 50% of the time.

The Digital Commons Network provides free access to full-text scholarly articles and other research from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide.