Useful search engines/archives for research

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Created this masterlist since most members here are still students and may find this very helpful for a paper or studies. Most of these are Deep Web related, by the way. Feel free to suggest more useful website!


General

BASE

  • Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
CiteULike
  • Service for managing and discovering scholarly references
Data.gov
  • U.S. Government open data
Deep Dyve
  • Various academic journals
  • 2-week free trial; Pay-to-search
DOAJ

  • Directory of Open Access Journals
HathiTrust
  • Digitalized texted from various libraries around the world
SSRN
  • Search engine for various research papers
YOVISTO
  • Academic video search engine


Art

FindSounds

  • Sound effects search engine


Humanities

Biznar

  • Deep Web business search engine
Fold3
  • Collections of original military records
Making of America
  • Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction
  • Focuses on education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology
NYPL Digital Collections
  • Search engine for the items digitized from The New York Public Library's collections
Popurls
  • Various news aggregator
  • Features recent popular texts/pieces in various websites such as various news sites, Reddit, YouTube, Flickr, etc.
Social Mention

  • Real-time social media search and analysis search engine
  • For an easier way to explain how to works - if you were to type in your username for example, you'll receive results featuring websites where you were mentioned (such as Twitter) recently
The Labyrinth
  • Resources for Medieval Studies
Yummyly
  • Recipe search engine
  • Features advanced search for ingredients, diets, tastes, allergies, nutrition, techniques, and time


Sciences

CiteSeerX

  • Search engine focused on literature in computer and information science
MedNar
  • Deep Web medical search engine
PubMed
  • Search engine for biomedical literature
Scitation

  • Search engine focused on influential news, comment, analysis and research in the Physical Sciences
TechXtra
  • Engineering/mathematics/computing-focused search engine
  • Features articles, news, job announcements, reports, etc.
USDA PLANTS
  • Datebase for various plants
World Wide Science
  • Real-time multilingual+translating science literature search engine