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Whether you are writing a thesis , dissertation, or research paper it is a key task to survey prior literature and research findings. More likely than not, you will be looking for trusted resources, most likely peer-reviewed research articles.

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Scopus is one of the two big commercial, bibliographic databases that cover scholarly literature from almost any discipline. Besides searching for research articles, Scopus also provides academic journal rankings, author profiles, and an h-index calculator .

• Coverage: 90.6 million core records
• References: N/A
• Discipline: Multidisciplinary
• Access options: Limited free preview, full access by institutional subscription only
• Provider: Elsevier

Web of Science also known as Web of Knowledge is the second big bibliographic database. Usually, academic institutions provide either access to Web of Science or Scopus on their campus network for free.

• Coverage: approx. 100 million items
• References: 1.4 billion
• Access options: institutional subscription only
• Provider: Clarivate (formerly Thomson Reuters)

PubMed is the number one resource for anyone looking for literature in medicine or biological sciences. PubMed stores abstracts and bibliographic details of more than 30 million papers and provides full text links to the publisher sites or links to the free PDF on PubMed Central (PMC) .

• Coverage: approx. 35 million items
• Discipline: Medicine and Biological Sciences
• Access options: free
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For education sciences, ERIC is the number one destination. ERIC stands for Education Resources Information Center, and is a database that specifically hosts education-related literature.

• Coverage: approx. 1.6 million items
• Discipline: Education
• Provider: U.S. Department of Education

IEEE Xplore is the leading academic database in the field of engineering and computer science. It's not only journal articles, but also conference papers, standards and books that can be search for.

• Coverage: approx. 6 million items
• Discipline: Engineering
• Provider: IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)

ScienceDirect is the gateway to the millions of academic articles published by Elsevier, 1.4 million of which are open access. Journals and books can be searched via a single interface.

• Coverage: approx. 19.5 million items

The DOAJ is an open-access academic database that can be accessed and searched for free.

• Coverage: over 8 million records
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JSTOR is another great resource to find research papers. Any article published before 1924 in the United States is available for free and JSTOR also offers scholarships for independent researchers.

• Coverage: more than 12 million items
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Scopus is one of the two big commercial, bibliographic databases that cover scholarly literature from almost any discipline. Beside searching for research articles, Scopus also provides academic journal rankings, author profiles, and an h-index calculator .

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•   Dictionary of world mythology
•   Digital theatre+
•   Diner's dictionary
•   DMPTool
•   Drama criticism
•   Dynasties of the world
•   E-EROS (Encyclopedia of reagents for organic synthesis)
•   Early American imprints, series I (1639-1800)
•   Early American imprints, series II (1801-1819)
•   Early English books online
•   Ebook central
•   EBSCO eBook collection
•   EconLit
•   Economist historical archive (1843-rolling end date)
•   Educator's reference complete
•   EMBASE
•   Emerald
•   Encyclopaedia Iranica
•   Encyclopaedia Judaica
•   Encyclopedia of aesthetics
•   Encyclopedia of Africa
•   Encyclopedia of aging
•   Encyclopedia of ancient Greek language and linguistics
•   Encyclopedia of ancient history
•   Encyclopedia of applied psychology
•   Encyclopedia of biodiversity
•   Encyclopedia of Buddhism
•   Encyclopedia of clothing and fashion
•   Encyclopedia of crime and justice
•   Encyclopedia of death and the human experience
•   Encyclopedia of disability
•   Encyclopedia of education
•   Encyclopedia of educational reform and dissent
•   Encyclopedia of energy
•   Encyclopedia of European social history from 1350 to 2000
•   Encyclopedia of food and culture
•   Encyclopedia of genocide and crimes against humanity
•   Encyclopedia of global human migration
•   Encyclopedia of global warming
•   Encyclopedia of human nutrition
•   Encyclopedia of international media and communications
•   Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim world
•   Encyclopedia of language & linguistics
•   Encyclopedia of philosophy
•   Encyclopedia of population
•   Encyclopedia of race and racism
•   Encyclopedia of recreation and leisure in America
•   Encyclopedia of religion
•   Encyclopedia of religion in America
•   Encyclopedia of small business
•   Encyclopedia of social work
•   Encyclopedia of soils in the environment
•   Encyclopedia of special education
•   Encyclopedia of the American constitution
•   Encyclopedia of Victorian literature
•   Encyclopedia of world cultures
•   Encyclopedia of world cultures. Supplement
•   Environment complete
•   Environmental science and history (Wiley Digital Archives)
•   Environmental sciences and pollution management (see Agricultural & environmental science database)
•   ERIC database
•   Essentials (formerly National consumer study)
•   Ethnic diversity source
•   Ethnic NewsWatch
•   Ethnographic video online
•   Europa world plus
•   Europe, 1450 to 1789
•   Expanded academic ASAP (see Gale academic OneFile Select)
•   Familiar quotations
•   Fashion, costume, and culture
•   Feminism in literature
•   FIAF international index to film periodicals
•   Film & television literature index with full text
•   Filmakers library online
•   Fisheries gray literature database
•   Food and fitness
•   Food environment atlas
•   Fowler's concise dictionary of modern English usage
•   Gale academic OneFile Select (formerly Expanded academic ASAP)
•   Gale business: entrepreneurship (formerly Small business resource center)
•   Gale business: insights (formerly Business Insights: essentials)
•   Gale ebooks (formerly Gale virtual reference library)
•   Gale encyclopedia of alternative medicine
•   Gale encyclopedia of American law
•   Gale encyclopedia of children's health
•   Gale encyclopedia of medicine
•   Gale encyclopedia of multicultural America
•   Gale encyclopedia of psychology
•   Gale encyclopedia of U.S. economic history
•   Gale in context: middle school (formerly Research in context)
•   Gale OneFile: News (formerly InfoTrac newsstand)
•   Gale virtual reference library (see Gale eBooks)
•   Gender studies database
•   GenderWatch
•   General OneFile
•   General reference center gold
•   Geo-data
•   GEOBASE
•   GeoRef
•   GeoScienceWorld
•   Global health
•   Global plants
•   Godey's lady's book
•   Google scholar
•   GreenFILE
•   Green's dictionary of slang
•   Grove art online
•   Grzimek's animal life encyclopedia (2nd edition, 17 volumes)
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•   Guardian (ProQuest historical newspapers, Manchester, 1821-2003)
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•   Handbook of psychology
•   HAPI, the database of Latin American journal articles
•   Harper's weekly
•   Hathi Trust digital library
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•   HeinOnline
•   Historical abstracts
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•   PolicyMap
•   Project Gutenberg
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•   Sage journals online
•   SAGE research methods
•   Salem press
•   Science and its times
•   ScienceDirect
•   SciFinder-n
•   Scitation
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•   SHAFR guide online
•   Short story criticism
•   Small business resource center (see Gale business: entrepreneurship)
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•   Social sciences full text
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•   SPORTDiscus with full text
•   Springer journals
•   Springfield republican (1877-1946)
•   Springfield union (1947-1987)
•   SRDS
•   St. James encyclopedia of popular culture
•   Standards infobase (see i2i)
•   Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy
•   Statesman's yearbook
•   Statistical abstract of the U.S.
•   Sunday times digital archive (London, 1822-2006)
•   Sustainability (JSTOR)
•   Swank digital campus
•   Terrorism : essential primary sources
•   Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (*user registration required)
•   Times digital archive (London, 1785-rolling end date)
•   Times literary supplement historical archive (formerly TLS historical archive)
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•   TLS historical archive (see Times literary supplement historical archive)
•   Toxicology abstracts
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•   Ulrich's periodicals directory
•   UpToDate
•   U.S. congressional serial set
•   Vermont Center for Geographic Information
•   Vermont Online Library
•   Vermont vital statistics
•   VisualDx
•   Vogue archive
•   Wall Street journal, Eastern edition (East Coast)
•   Wall Street journal, Eastern edition (ProQuest recent newspapers)
•   Wall Street journal (ProQuest historical newspapers, 1889-rolling end date)
•   Washington post, final edition (ProQuest recent newspapers)
•   Washington post (ProQuest historical newspapers, 1877-rolling end date)
•   Web of science
•   WebCSD
•   Westlaw
•   Who's who in the classical world
•   Who's who in the twentieth century
•   Wildlife & ecology studies worldwide
•   Wiley online library
•   Wiley StatsRef
•   Women and social movements in the United States, 1600-2000
•   World Bank databank
•   World development indicators
•   World encyclopedia
•   World of forensic science
•   World Scholar Latin America & the Caribbean
•   World Shakespeare bibliography online
•   WorldCat
•   Worldmark encyclopedia of cultures and daily life
•   Worldmark encyclopedia of religious practices
•   Worldmark encyclopedia of the nations
•   World's fairs and expositions
•   Worldwide political science abstracts

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Grey Literature is not academic/scholarly piece of writing. It includes government documents, foundation reports, white papers, working papers, issue briefs, organizational (versus academic) research, and other kinds of policy reports. It can be challenging to distinguish grey literature from academic sources, and often enough scholars are authors of this grey literature, blurring the lines all the more. An important distinction between grey literature and academic publications are that the latter are peer reviewed by scholars with expertise in the field. 

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• You may find references to this kind of literature in bibliographies of articles and books (e.g., citation chasing). 
• You can often find it by means of a Google search, experimenting with different key words and adding genres such as “foundation report," "issue brief," "policy report," "funding report,” “working paper,” “study,” or “white paper.” 
• Documents and Reports contains final and official documents and reports from 1946 through the present
• Open Knowledge Repository is World Bank's official open access repository for all of its research and "knowledge products" 
• Pew Research  Center  is a "a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world"
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• United Nations -- Penn Libraries subscribes to the UN iLibrary . You can also search the UN site directly. 
• Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS)   is a database that indexes and provides access to government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies.
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• Policy Commons -- a one-stop community platform for objective, fact-based research from the world's leading policy experts, nonpartisan think tanks, IGOs and NGOs.

Some social science databases will index this material and it may appear in government or organizational websites or through other means rather than formal publication. The creators of these documents may be teams or individuals, and the authors are not always listed.

Unlike academic articles, grey literature doesn't necessarily go through a vetting or peer review process. As such, when using this material, you will want to have an understanding of the organizational body sponsoring the work. Who funds them? What is their mission? Are they a lobbying or political group? What kinds of information do they publish?  Do other organizations cite them?  Who and for what reasons? Google Scholar is a great way to find out who is citing a particular publication. 

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BEOnline was a database of over 1,600 selected websites on many aspects of business and economics, created and maintained by the Business Section at the Library of Congress.

It began in 1996 as an experimental project of the Bibliographic Enrichment Advisory Team (BEAT) of the Cataloging Directorate of the Library of Congress to explore means of access and bibliographic control for remote Internet resources of interest to the practice or study of entrepreneurship and small business. It expanded to include selected internet resources on all aspects of business and economics that may be of interest to researchers.

In the summer of 2021, BEOnline underwent a major review to fix broken links, clean categories, and identify catalog records to remove. As a result, it created a more accurate and curated list of recommended websites.

In the fall of 2023, the BEOnline project closed as the Science & Business Reading Room website updated. Many reviewed and recommend links have since migrated to our guides such as Doing Industry Research , Doing Company Research , and the Small Business Hub . 

To access an archive of BEOnline, visit the web archive page listed below. For questions, contact Ask a Librarian .  

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Each year Yale University hosts a wide variety of visiting artists. Many of these artists give lectures, some of which are open to all members of the public. Visiting artists also provide invaluable insight, guidance, and critiques for students currently enrolled in Yale's School of Art.

The aim of this research guide is to provide background information on each visiting artist's practice. You will also find lists of related resources, including books, articles, and special collections that can be accessed through Yale's library system.

Check out the School of Art's website to learn more about its annual Visiting Artists Lecturers series .

Many lectures are recorded by the School of Art. Some of these can be viewed on the School of Art's YouTube channel . 

Make sure to check out the School of Art's calendar to keep up with all the latest events.

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