Top 20 Scientific Research Resources

Scientific papers and journals are vital resources for students and academics pursuing research in their respective fields. Often there is a need to access journals beyond what is available in the university library and that is where e-libraries come into play. Boasting thousands of journals and research papers on a variety of subjects, these sources provide students and academics with the material that they need. Here we have listed a collection of the best such resources from where you can access a vast collection of scientific journals and research papers.

1. Explore scientific, technical, and medical research on ScienceDirect. Search for peer-reviewed journals, articles, book chapters and open access content.

2. PubMed comprises more than 27 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.

3. HAL is an open archive where authors can deposit scholarly documents from all academic fields.

4. Cornell University Library: Open access to 1,285,789 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics

5. Open access library: Free Access to 4,228,336 Academic Articles

6. Get full access to thousands of medical journals covering all branches of medicine.

7. Get access to the latest scientific journals and articles

8. The Horizon Reserarch Publication Corporation offers journals and papers on everything from Engineering to Agriculture.

9. Access the latest science journals and research papers on Scrip.

10. DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

11. NASA: The STI Program is a critical component in the worldwide activity of scientific and technical aerospace research and development

12. PLOS gives you access to a wide variety of scientific journals and research papers

13. IDEAS is the largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics having thousands of journals and available freely on the Internet

14. World’s largest Science, Technology & Medicine Open Access book publisher.

15. Open access site for journals from materials, applied sciences to sensors and toxins.

16. eLife is an open-access journal that publishes promising research in the life and biomedical sciences

17. This site offers free access to journals for users from developing economies.

18. Journals, books and case studies - a library of real-world research at your fingertips

19. The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.

20. This website links several individual journal sources on the basis of the subject.