Databases & Research Tools


 Encyclopedia


WEBSITE DESCRIPTION
Articles plus images, videos, relevant websites, country comparisons and a world atlas. Also includes Britannica Kids.
Online dictionary and encyclopedia with pictures, facts, and videos. Get information and homework help with millions of articles in our FREE, online library.
The Encyclopedia of Life(EOL) is an unprecedented effort to gather scientific knowledge about all animal and plant life with pictures, information, facts, and more.
Access more than 57,000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
The A.D.A.M. Medical Encyclopedia includes over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries. It also contains an extensive library of medical photographs and illustrations.
Explore Smithsonian online resources.
Access to print, pictorial and audio-visual collections and other digital services.


 Multidisciplinary
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TYPE
DESCRIPTION
Journals
DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.
Articles
EBSCO provides free academic research databases for students, researchers, and librarians.
Digital Library
The eLibraryUSA Catalog contains ebooks and articles from a variety of resources.
Articles
Theses
Abstracts
Books
A simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature which includes many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
EBooks
Offers over 45000 free eBooks (in various languages) that can be downloaded to users' PC or portable device.
Digital Library
A large-scale collaborative repository of digital content from research libraries including content digitized via the Google Books project and Internet Archive digitization initiatives, as well as content digitized locally by libraries.
EBooks
Movies
Music
Images
Softwares 
It offers free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 484 billion archived web pages.
EBooks
An online database of peer reviewed academic journals and electronic books provides access to digital humanities and social science content from over 250 university presses and scholarly societies around the world.

 Science
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TYPE
DESCRIPTION
Articles
Topic: Marine Science.
The Aquatic Commons is a thematic digital repository covering the natural marine, estuarine /brackish and fresh water environments. It includes all aspects of the science, technology, management and conservation of these environments, their organisms and resources, and the economic, sociological and legal aspects.
Articles
A repository of electronic preprints, known as e-prints, of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics, and quantitative finance, which can be accessed online.
EBooks
Journals
Articles
Chapters
Treatments
The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.
Articles
Dictionaries Directories Organizations News
Stories
Topic: Health Information.
MedlinePlus provides encyclopedic information on health and drug issues, and a directory of medical services.
EBooks
Topic: Space Science.
Articles
Advocates the free distribution of science and medical published articles.
ㄍㄠ Articles
Topic: Biomedical and Life Science.
PubMed comprises more than 24 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
 Others
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TYPE
DESCRIPTION
Almanac
Directory
Maps
Books
Topics: Intelligence.
US Government Publications
Articles
Topic: Education.
Education Research and Information Center. Education literature and resources. Provides access to over 1.3 million records dating back to 1966.
Digital Library
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
US Government Publications.
Journals
Topic: West and East Indies historical Document.
New West Indian Guide.
EBooks
Papers
Statistics
Factbook
Glossaries
Topic: Economy.
A gateway to OECD’s analysis and data and publications by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), the OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), and the International Transport Forum (ITF).
EBooks
Journals
Topic: Art.
This wide variety of books covers the fields of art, photography, archaeology, architecture, conservation, and the humanities for both the general public and specialists.
EBooks
Online Contents
Images
Topic: Canadian and Ontario Information.
A subject-based, reliable, Internet information source with special focus on Canadian and Ontario information.
EBooks
Journals
Papers
Documents
The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products. Through the OKR, The World Bank collects, disseminates, and permanently preserves its intellectual output in digital form.