Some specialized scientific search engines

Search engineDescriptionLink
Pubmed

Scientific articles in biomedical sciences

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/advanced
PsychinfoScientific articles in psychologyhttps://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/psycinfo/
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts

Scientific articles in linguistics

https://proquest.libguides.com/llba
Cinahl

Scientific articles in rehabilitation

https://www.ebscohost.com/nursing/products/cinahl-databases/cinahl-complete
Isidore

Search engine providing access to digital data in the humanities and social sciences (HSS)

https://isidore.science
Google scholarGoogle service that allows for the search of scientific publications (peer-reviewed or not), academic theses, citations, and scientific bookshttps://scholar.google.com/

 

Database

Description

Link

CorpusUL

Institutional repository of Université Laval; it catalogs and provides access to the scientific output of researchers from Université Laval

https://corpus.ulaval.ca/home

CARL-ABRC

List of all Canadian institutional repositories, organized by province

http://www.carl-abrc.ca/fr/faire-avancer-la-recherche/depots-institutionnels/depots-au-canada/

HAL

Multidisciplinary open archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific articles and theses, originating from French or foreign teaching and research institutions

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr

DOAJ

Directory of Open Access Journals. It provides access to the full text of thousands of open access journals across a variety of fields

https://doaj.org

DOAB

Directory of Open Access Books. Directory of thousands of open access book titles. Contains peer-reviewed books published by academic publishers

https://www.doabooks.org

ArXiv

Database of scientific articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics

https://arXiv.org

Persée

Portal for the dissemination of scientific publications, primarily in humanities and social sciences, but also in earth and environmental sciences (full text and open access)

https://www.persee.fr

Érudit

Search engine allowing access to digital data in the humanities and social sciences

https://www.erudit.org/fr/

Les classiques des sciences sociales

Digital library providing free access to French-language works in the social sciences and humanities

http://classiques.uqac.ca

 

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