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The Social Science Research Networks eLibrary consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 399,600 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 328,300 downloadable full text documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format. The Networks encourage readers to communicate directly with authors and other subscribers concerning their own and others' research. To facilitate this we publish detailed author contact information including email addresses for authors of each paper.
Wiley Online Library hosts the world's broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. It delivers seamless integrated access to over 4 million articles from 1500 journals, almost 10,000 online books, and hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols and databases.
Periodicals Content Index electronic index to millions of articles published in the arts,
humanities and social sciences
HighBeam Research 6,500+ credible publications, 80 million articles
ArXiv.org open access to 668,955 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics via Cornell University Library.
EBSCO 2009 Library Journal Best Reference Resource, full text of 520+ journals, 340 full text reference books, 36,000 conference papers, subject-specific thesaurus that provides searching guidance
Questia 4 million articles, 77,000 copyrighted books, tools for highlighting text, taking notes, generating footnotes and bibliographies in seven different styles, and saving your work
ERIC Education Resources Information Center
MIT Virtual Reference Collection
intute currently offers no new resource updates from a University Consortium of 7 including Oxford, also the intute Virtual Training Suite - Internet for Government & Politics provides a free online tutorial to help university students develop their Internet research skills.
Research Navigator EBSCO Academic Journal and Abstract Database, New York Times , “Best of the Web” Link Library, and Financial Times Article Archive and Company Financials
WebLens directory for scholarly & academic research, “the hidden web”
HighWire now from Stanford University
refSeek providing search and directory of online academic research resources
Microsoft Academic Research explore 38,838,153 publications and 19,160,667 authors
Google Scholar advanced, broad search for scholarly literature
Also see the Academic Search Engines section of this website.