Abstracting & Indexing

The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a digital library portal for researchers in astronomy and physics, operated by the Smithsonian
Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant. The ADS maintains three bibliographic databases containing more than 13 million records covering publications in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and the arXiv e-prints. Abstracts and full-text of major astronomy and physics publications are indexed and searchable through the database. The ADS tracks citations and usage of its records to provide advanced discovery and evaluation capabilities.

For more information, visit ui.adsabs.harvard.edu

DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to open access, peer-reviewed journals.
For more information, visit doaj.org

The Directory of Open Access Books is an online directory that indexes and provides access to open access, peer-reviewed books and chapters.
For more information, visit doabooks.org

EconLit is published by the American Economic Association. It includes peer-reviewed journal articles, working papers from leading universities, PhD dissertations, books, collective volume articles, conference proceedings, and book reviews. The coverage includes 1.3 million records with the coverage as far back as 1886 and continues to grow by 65,000 entries each year. 

aeaweb.org/econlit

EI Compendex is an engineering database providing 20 million records from 3,615 journals, 95,790 conference proceedings, 78 book series published by 2,200 publishers worldwide. EI Compendex covers Applied Physics, including Optics, Bioengineering and Biotechnology, Food Science and Technology, Materials Science, Instrumentation, including Medical Devices, and Nanotechnology.

For more information, visit  elsevier.com/solutions/engineering-village/content/compendex

The GeoRef database is published by the American Geosciences Institution. It is one of the most comprehensive databases in the geosciences.  and continues to grow by more than 100,000 each year. The database contains over 4 million references to geoscience publications.

americangeosciences.org/georef

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.

For more information, refer to: scholar.google.com

IET Inspec, published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), is subject-specific and interdisciplinary database in the fields of Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Information Technology, Mechanical and Production Engineering. It contains over 18 million records.  

theiet.org/publishing/inspec

MathSciNet® is a database offering information for the mathematical sciences literature. It contains more than 3 million items and over 2 million direct links to original articles.
For more information, visit ams.org/publications/math-reviews/math-reviews

MEDLINE is offered by the U.S. National Library of Medicine ® (NLM). It is a premier bibliographic database containing more than 25 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine from more than 5,200 worldwide journals in about 40 languages. A distinctive feature of MEDLINE is that the records are indexed with NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®). MEDLINE includes literature published from 1966 to present, and selected coverage of literature prior to that period.

For more information, visit nlm.nih.gov/bsd/medline.html

PsycINFO, a service provided by American Psychological Association (APA), provides information on interdisciplinary behavioral and social science literature. It includes document types such as journal articles, book chapters, book reviews, editorials, tests, and assessment instruments. It also offers research methodologies such as clinical case reports, empirical studies and literature reviews. The database allows search functionality to identify grant or funding source. It contains more than 4 million bibliographic records from more than 2,500 scholarly journals connecting more than 90 million cited references. 

For more information, visit apa.org/pubs/databases/psycinfo

Psyndex, published by Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID), contains records of all psychological literature and audiovisual media from the German-speaking countries since 1977.

psyndex.de