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Reviewing previous research, gaining insights and data, and citing sources can significantly enhance the quality of your assignments or papers. While domestic journals are useful, it is essential to explore English-language papers for more comprehensive information. Today, we'll look at some of the most useful and effective overseas sites. By utilizing these academic journal search engines, you can significantly improve the quality of your research work, accessing a wide range of reliable and valuable sources.



Academic Search Engines
 

1. Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a search engine that helps you search scholarly literature across various disciplines and sources, including articles, theses, books, abstracts, and court opinions from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities, and other websites. It is convenient because you can save citations and articles to read later.

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2. Semantic Scholar

Semantic Scholar is a free, AI-powered search engine that provides over 200 million search and open resources. It holds a wealth of materials, especially in the scientific field. With table previews and various search filters, it helps save time on searches.

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3. Science.gov

Science.gov is the official website of the U.S. government, where you can search for the latest scientific and technical reports, peer-reviewed scholarly publications, digital data, software, conference papers, and proceedings. Science.gov searches over 42 scientific databases and more than 2,000 scientific websites from 14 federal science agencies, including images.

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4. Lens.org

Lens.org is an academic search and citation indexing tool owned by the non-profit organization Cambia. This tool is free for everyone and protects personal information by not using Google Analytics or other cloud-based click trackers.

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5. ResearchGate

ResearchGate is a professional network for scientists that facilitates communication and information sharing among researchers. It is free to join and currently has about 3 million users. ResearchGate is particularly useful for finding materials in the scientific field. Additionally, it supports services such as publication sharing, peer connections, job searching, recruiting, exploring new collaborations, profile creation, liking and following researchers and their publications, and commenting, integrating social media elements.

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6. ACS (American Chemical Society)

ACS (American Chemical Society) provides full-text journals in the field of chemistry and related areas offered by the American Chemical Society.

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7. Google Books

Google Books allows you to enter a title, keyword, or author in the search box and provides a series of links called snippets, which are short summaries of each title, and sometimes full views and free PDF downloads. If you find a book you like, you can purchase an e-book from the Google Play store.

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8. ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)

ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) provides bibliographic abstracts and some full texts of education-related research and information. On average, more than 80% of education-related papers are included in the comprehensively indexed academic journals, and only papers that meet the standards and criteria specified in the ERIC selection policy are indexed. The ERIC Thesaurus includes about 12,000 terms, including over 4,500 descriptors and 7,000 synonyms.

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9. Wolfram Alpha

Wolfram Alpha uses the syntax of MassMathematica to solve almost all engineering mathematics, from differentiation, integration, limits, recurrence equations to sequences and graphs. In addition to mathematics, you can also find materials on physics, chemistry, and other subjects. The full step-by-step solution requires a purchase of $3, while the first two lines of the solution and the result are shown for free.

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10. AIP (American Institute of Physics)

AIP (American Institute of Physics) provides full-text journals in the field of physics. It is useful for finding journals in the field of physics. This service, tool, and platform connect researchers with publications, peers, institutions, and societies worldwide.

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11. Embase

Embase contains disease and drug-related information and provides peer-reviewed clinical medicine, pharmacology, toxicology, and other biomedical fields, covering about 8,400 journals and 28 million records. It provides information on monitoring the progress of clinical research, drug safety, side effects, and treatments. Embase uniquely searches about 2,700 journals (not provided by Medline) and is useful for searching Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) information. It is the world's largest academic association discussing not only pure chemistry but also applied chemistry, chemical engineering, and nanotechnology.

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12. IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL)

IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL) provides journals, proceedings, and standards related to electricity, electronics, information, and technology copyrighted by IEEE/IET. IEEE offers more than 30% of academic journals in the fields of electricity, electronics, and computer science worldwide.

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