Ph.D Important Sites

SCIENCE.GOV


Science.gov makes it possible for users to search over 60 databases, over 2,200 websites, and over 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information in many formats, including full-text documents, citations, scientific data supporting federally funded research, and multimedia. Science.gov works to raise technical and scientific literacy, serve as a foundation for future discoveries, and foster greater understanding of, access to, and use of the results of public investment in the U.S. government’s science and technology efforts.

Features:

  • Accessing over 60 databases and 200 million pages of science information via one query
  • Clustering of results by subtopics or dates to help users target their search
  • Eureka Science News results related to user search terms
  • Mark and send option for emailing results to friends and colleagues

Pricing:

FREE

Link:

https://www.science.gov/

WOLFRAMALPHA


WolframAlpha is an answer engine developed by Wolfram Research. It answers factual queries by computing answers from externally sourced data. Wolfram Alpha is known for its ability to solve very complex equations in mathematics and physics. However it is capable of much more. For example, students can compare different elements in the periodic table, explore computations for engineering problems, and discover information about living organisms.

Features:

  • This tool enables searchers to learn the historical usage of a word, tracking its ebbs and flows in popularity over time.
  • Ability to solve very complex equations in mathematics and physics

Pricing:

FREE WITH PAID OPTIONS AVAILABLE

Link:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/

RESEARCHGATE


ResearchGate is a European commercial social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators. A study found that over half of the uploaded papers appear to infringe copyright, because the authors uploaded the publisher's version.

Features:

  • Research Gate’s primary feature is the individual researcher profile, which is used to promote scholarly production.
  • The site creates profiles with information harvested from literature databases and other sources, while permitting researchers to create profiles by registering on the site.
  • Site members can follow other researchers and their work, identify colleagues and coworkers such as lab personnel, and share details of current projects.

Pricing:

FREE

Link:

https://www.researchgate.net/

YORK UNIVERSITY LIBRARY


When you're conducting academic research, your university library can be one of your best resources. In addition to online databases, journal articles, and books, your campus library also has academic librarians who can point you to the best sources. When you don't know where to start, reach out to an academic librarian to learn more about your school's research tools. Or use interlibrary loan to get a scanned copy of an article. Many of the campus library's resources are available online, making them easy to access.

Features:

  • York University Libraries' suite of online workshops
  • Areas covered include information literacy, academic integrity, research and digital skills.

Pricing:

PAID

Link:

https://www.library.yorku.ca/web/

GOOGLE BOOKS


Google Books is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition, and stored in its digital database

Features:

  • Access to free, public domain e-books
  • You're searching Google's database of books rather than websites searched by Google
  • It can help you identify journals and/or authors that cover your topic
  • You can retrieve both books and articles in a single search

Pricing:

FREE with Minimum Functionality

Link:

https://books.google.com

GOOGLE SCHOLAR


Google Scholar is a tool your students can use to search for peer-reviewed articles, court opinions and patents. Scholar is intuitive because it makes use of similar search conventions as Google web search. It also connects to the UAF Rasmuson Library databases to make finding full text articles easy with results that point to articles that cite related research.

Features:

  • Search all scholarly literature from one convenient place.
  • Explore related works, citations, authors, and publications.
  • Locate the complete document through your library or on the web.
  • Keep up with recent developments in any area of research.

Pricing:

FREE

Link:

https://scholar.google.com

MICROSOFT ACADEMIC


Microsoft Academic gained prominence because it profiled authors, organizations, keywords, and journals and made the dataset available as open data, in contrast to Google Scholar. The search engine indexed over 260 million publications, 88 million of which are journal articles.

Features:

  • A project exploring how to assist human conducting scientific research by leveraging machine's cognitive power in memory
  • Computation
  • Sensing
  • Attention and endurance

Pricing:

FREE with Minimum Functionality

Link:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research

WORLD WIDE SCIENCE


WorldWideScience.org is a global science search engine (Academic databases and search engines) designed to accelerate scientific discovery and progress by accelerating the sharing of scientific knowledge. Through a multilateral partnership, WorldWideScience.org enables anyone with internet access to launch a single-query search of national scientific databases and portals in more than 70 countries, covering all of the world's inhabited continents and over three-quarters of the world's population. From a user's perspective, WorldWideScience.org makes the databases act as if they were a unified whole.

Features:

  • Clustering of results by subtopics or dates to help users target their search
  • Eureka Science News results related to user search terms
  • Mark and send option for emailing results to friends and colleagues
  • Enhanced information related to the user's real-time search

Pricing:

PAID

Link:

https://worldwidescience.org

REFSEEK


RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than five billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers.

Features:

  • Currently in public beta, RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers.
  • It aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone.
  • RefSeek searches more than one billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers.

Pricing:

FREE

Link:

https://www.refseek.com

Lexis Web


Lexis Web is your go-to for any law-related inquiries you may have. The results are drawn from legal sites, which can be filtered by criteria such as news, blog, government and commercial. Users can also filter results by jurisdiction, practice area, source and file format.

Features:

  • Lexis Web provides powerful navigation tools to help you search for legal resources on the Web and experience a more productive legal research session with access to Lexis Web.

Pricing:

FREE

Link:

https://www.lexisnexis.com