Search engines

Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online journals of Europe and America's largest scholarly publishers, plus scholarly books and other non-peer reviewed journals. It is similar in function to the freely available Scirus from Elsevier, CiteSeerX, and getCITED. It is also similar to the subscription-based tools, Elsevier's Scopus and Thomson ISI's Web of Science. Its advertising slogan – "Stand on the shoulders of giants" – is a nod to the scholars who have contributed to their fields over the centuries, providing the foundation for new intellectual achievements.

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Google Scholar

 

BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine

BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic open access web resources. BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.

As the open access movement grows and prospers, more and more repository servers come into being which use the "Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting" (OAI-PMH) for providing their contents. BASE collects, normalises, and indexes these data. BASE provides more than 36 million documents from more than 2,200 sources. You can access the full texts of about 75% of the indexed documents. The Index is continuously enhanced by integrating further OAI sources as well as local sources.

BASE is a registered OAI service provider  and contributed to the European project "Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research"  DRIVER.  Database managers can integrate the BASE index into your own local infrastructure (e.g. meta search engines, library catalogues) via an interface.

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BASE Search

 

DART-Europe - E-theses Portal

DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses. DART-Europe is endorsed by LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche), and it is the European Working Group of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD).

The DART-Europe partners help to provide researchers with a single European Portal for the discovery of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs), and they participate in advocacy to influence future European e-theses developments. DART-Europe offers partners a European networking forum on ETD issues, and may provide the opportunity to submit collaborative funding applications to achieve DART-Europe's vision for ETDs.

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EconBiz

EconBiz is the Virtual Library for Economics and Business Studies with the aim to support research in and teaching of economics with a central entry point for all kinds of subject-specific information and direct access to full texts. 

EconBiz offers:

  • a search engine including important German and international databases for economics and business studies
  • access to full texts on the Internet
  • a calendar of events in economics and business studies
  • a directory of internet resources in economics, selected for their quality and relevance to the subject
  • the reference service EconDesk which supports you in your search for information in economics and business studies
  • literature lists on current topics (ECONIS Select, ECONIS Select Business Administration)

EconBiz is a project of the ZBW German National Library of Economics.
EconBiz offers a gateway to about 1 million free online full texts in economics and business studies.

 

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 Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search and Google Print) 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. The service was formerly known as Google Print when it was introduced at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2004. Google's Library Project, also now known as Google Book Search, was announced in December 2004.
Google Books