Go beyond Google
Google can be very useful, but there are many other tools on the internet that will help you to find useful information resources.
Explore this page to find out about:
There are powerful search options other than Google. Please see the list below for an introduction to searching beyond Google:
For a comprehensive list of other search engines, click here.
There are a number of excellent free directories and repositories of open-access journals, images, and other materials. A comprehensive list is available here; see below for highlights:
The Directory of Open Access Journals is a useful source of scholarly journal articles, providing access to quality controlled Open Access Journals.
The Digital Public Library of America has images, texts, videos, and other archival materials from museums and libraries all over America.
arXiv offers access to e-prints in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.
CORE is the world’s largest collection of open access research papers.
PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine.
If you cannot find many information resources for your topic, Speak to a librarian in the Study Zone, they can: