More Free Databases for Searching the STEM Literature
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Database of 100 million+ publications, including articles, books and chapters, conference proceedings and preprints. Records are linked to cited/citing articles, funding, and patents. Some richer advanced searching options than you'll find in Google Scholar. | Yes. When you view the results page, the last limit on the left allows you to filter results by OA materials. |
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PubMed includes 32 million citations and abstracts from the biomedical literature (and related disciplines) | You can limit results to "Free Full Text," which includes the PubMed Central database of final accepted manuscripts for NIH-funded research. |
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Indexes education research and information resources, including journals, books, conferences, reports, dissertations, etc. | You can limit results to free, full-text materials in ERIC, though this may not skew heavily toward journal articles. |
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Open database indexing the mathematical literature, more than 4.4 million bibliographic entries with abstracts or reviews from journal articles and books. The PDFs within the database are the abstracts/reviews, not the articles. | |
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The article database for the USDA's AGRICOLA, indexing journals in all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines. | No way to limit results. |
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Indexes more than 15 million records covering publications in astronomy and astrophysics, physics, and general science, including all arXiv e-prints. | You can limit to open access content by including property:openaccess in the search. |
