Finding Information & Research
Introduction
On this page you will find websites that are useful for finding academic research and other information. This can be useful when conducting a literature review, or other types of information gathering.
Academia
“Academia is a platform for sharing academic research. Academics have uploaded 22 million papers, and 31 million academics, professionals, and students read papers on Academia every month”.
The British Library
“the world’s most comprehensive research collection”. Requires membership.
Connected Papers
“Connected papers is a unique, visual tool to help researchers and applied scientists find and explore papers relevant to their field of work”.
Google Scholar
“Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines”. Scholar covers a wide range of publications, from RCTs to blogs. The ‘cite’ function is a convenient way to create a reference section if you don’t have a reference manager such as Zotero, though there are sometimes small errors in the citations.
Microsoft Academic
“Microsoft Academic is a free public web search engine for academic publications and literature, developed by Microsoft Research”
ResearchGate
“ResearchGate is the professional network for scientists and researchers. Over 19 million members from all over the world use it to share, discover, and discuss research”.
SSRN
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) “is an open-access [and mostly free…] online database of early scholarly research – a permanent and searchable online library”. The world’s largest depository of freely available academic work.
