Empowering Knowledge
We guide our scholars to the world's most credible and influential platforms for academic and professional discovery.
Multidisciplinary Research Platforms
Powerful search engines and networks for discovering scholarly literature across a vast array of disciplines.
Google Scholar
A premier, freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.
JSTOR
A digital library providing access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources. Free and paid content available.
Semantic Scholar
An AI-powered research tool for scientific literature that helps you discover and understand research with powerful filtering and summary features.
ResearchGate
A social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators in a global community.
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
One of the world's most voluminous search engines for academic web resources, providing millions of documents from thousands of providers.
ScienceOpen
An interactive discovery platform with over 80 million records for articles, books, and chapters, all in the context of citation networks.
Specialized & Preprint Archives
Focused databases and archives for specific fields like life sciences, physics, and education, including access to cutting-edge, pre-peer-review research.
PubMed Central
A free digital repository from the U.S. National Institutes of Health that archives open access full-text scholarly articles in the biomedical and life sciences.
arXiv
An open-access archive for scholarly articles in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, and statistics.
bioRxiv
A free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. A sister-site to arXiv.
Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
A platform and online community devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science and humanities research.
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
An online library of education research and information, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education.
Science.gov
A gateway to U.S. federal science information, offering free access to research and development results from federal agencies.
Open Access Ecosystem & Tools
Discover the infrastructure of open science, from directories of journals and repositories to leading open access publishers and tools for finding free papers.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
A community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
CORE
Aggregating the world's open access research papers, CORE provides a seamless access to millions of articles from journals and repositories globally.
Public Library of Science (PLOS)
A nonprofit open-access publisher that publishes a suite of influential open access journals across all areas of science and medicine.
OpenDOAR
Directory of Open Access Repositories. A quality-assured global directory of academic open access repositories.
Unpaywall
A free and legal browser extension that finds full-text PDFs of research papers as you browse, using a database of millions of open-access articles.
BioMed Central (BMC)
Part of Springer Nature, BMC publishes over 250 peer-reviewed open access journals in science, technology, engineering, and medicine.
Business & Management Insights
Gain insights from the world's foremost business schools and consulting firms. Access to these premium resources may require a subscription.
Harvard Business Review
The leading destination for smart management thinking, offering research, analysis, and best practices from global business experts.
McKinsey Quarterly
Published by McKinsey & Company, providing cutting-edge insights on business strategy and management.
MIT Technology Review
A media company by MIT, explaining the newest technologies and their commercial, social, and political impacts.
Insights by Stanford Business
Features management research and ideas from the faculty of Stanford Graduate School of Business to help leaders solve today’s biggest challenges.
Knowledge at Wharton
The online business analysis journal of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, offering free access to its research and business analysis.
The Oxford Review
Translates academic research into practical and actionable applications for use in organizations, HR, and leadership.
Digital Libraries & Archives
Explore vast digital libraries of books, historical documents, and other key resources beyond the traditional academic journal.
Internet Archive Scholar
A vast digital library of scholarly works, including journal articles, conference papers, and public web documents, preserved for long-term access.
Project Gutenberg
A library of over 70,000 free eBooks, with a focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. The first and oldest digital library.
Library Genesis
A prominent "shadow library" for articles and books. Note: Operates outside of traditional copyright law; use with caution and awareness of local regulations.