Academic Database Search Engines and Tools

Useful Academic Tools

  1. Check similarity: Turnitin
  2. Check your grammar and spelling: Grammarly 
  3. Create figures: Canva, Excel, Google Forms, Microsoft Forms, PowerPoint, R, SPSS
  4. Create online surveys: Google Forms, Microsoft Forms
  5. Create tables: Excel, Google Forms, Microsoft Forms, PowerPoint, R, SPSS
  6. Meet online: Microsoft Teams, Zoom

Canva | Excel Spreadsheet | Google Drive | Google Forms | Grammarly | Microsoft Forms | Microsoft Teams | PowerPoint | R | SPSS | Turnitin | Zoom | Zotero

Research Databases

  1. Search for articles, books, conference proceedings, dissertations, theses, and other related academic reading materials.
  2. Specific Discipline Databases, such as ERIC (education), PsycINFO (psychology), or PubMed (medicine).
  3. Multidisciplinary Databases, such as JSTOR, EBSCO, or ProQuest.
  4. Institutional Repositories, such as university Master’s theses and doctoral dissertations.
  5. Open-Access Databases: Free access to research articles, such as DOAJ, or OpenDOAR.
  6. Government Databases, such as The World Factbook of the C.I.A., U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of State Publications, and the National Institutes of Health Publications and Reports.

Research Databases

  1. Search and Retrieval: Advanced search interfaces, filters, and facets to locate specific content.
  2. Abstracts: Summaries
  3. Full-Texts: Direct access to full-text articles.
  4. Tools to format citations and references.
  5. Alerts and Notifications: Customization of alerts for latest information.

Effective Use of Research Databases

  1. Clarify Your Research Question.
  2. Identify your five keywords.
  3. Choose the appropriate databases that match your research field.
  4. Use Boolean search: +AND, -NOT, OR.
  5. Advanced search for author, subjects, type of publication, years, etc.
  6. Evaluate the credibility, relevance, and reliability of the reading materials.

Academic Database Search Engines

ARC | 学术百度 | Academia | BASE | CitationGecko | CiteAs | Connected Papers | CORE | DOAJ | EBSCO | Elicit |  ERIC | fatcat! | Google Books | Google Scholar | Inciteful.xyz  | Internet Archive Scholar | Lens | Mendeley | NDL | Open Access Button | OpenAlex | ORCID | PaperPanda | Paperity | PhilPapers | ProQuest | PubMed | RefSeek | ResearchGate | Sci-Hub | Science.gov | Scopus | Semantic Scholar | Unpaywall | WorldCat | WorldWideScience