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Major databases

Web of Science
Web of Science (1988 to present) is a multidisciplinary index that covers the sciences, social sciences, and arts & humanities.Coverage includes scholarly journals, books, reports, conference proceedings, and more. Web of Science includes the following citation databases: Science Citation Index Expanded (1900 to present) Social Sciences Citation Index (1956 to present) and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975 to present), Conference Proceedings Citation Indexes (1990 to present; >110,000 conferences).
arXiv.org
Searches open access pre-prints (>1 million) in mathematics, physics, astronomy, computer science, biology, and other sciences.
NASA Astrophysics data System (ADS)
Searches information in 3 databases - Astronomy& Physics, Physics, and arXiv e-prints (1975 to present).
ScienceDirect
Provides access to scholarly and peer reviewed journals in all areas of science.
Google Scholar
Scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports and more.
Journal Citation Reports
Citation data drawn from scholarly and technical journals in science, technology, and social sciences. You can find the most frequently cited journals in a field, highest impact journals in a field, largest journals in a field. Updated: Annually, usually midyear.