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    Important Databases

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    These ten databases provide access to scholarly literature and research across various academic fields. Scopus and Web of Science are large commercial databases covering many disciplines. PubMed is especially useful for medicine and biology as it contains over 30 million papers. ERIC focuses on education, while IEEE Xplore covers engineering and computer science papers. ScienceDirect and JSTOR allow searches of journals, and Directory of Open Access Journals contains freely accessible articles. Google Scholar functions as an academic search engine, and EBSCO provides access to books held by the writer's library. Using these credible databases can help locate relevant literature for research topics.

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    These ten databases provide access to scholarly literature and research across various academic fields. Scopus and Web of Science are large commercial databases covering many disciplines. PubMed is especially useful for medicine and biology as it contains over 30 million papers. ERIC focuses on education, while IEEE Xplore covers engineering and computer science papers. ScienceDirect and JSTOR allow searches of journals, and Directory of Open Access Journals contains freely accessible articles. Google Scholar functions as an academic search engine, and EBSCO provides access to books held by the writer's library. Using these credible databases can help locate relevant literature for research topics.

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    These ten databases provide access to scholarly literature and research across various academic fields. Scopus and Web of Science are large commercial databases covering many disciplines. PubMed is especially useful for medicine and biology as it contains over 30 million papers. ERIC focuses on education, while IEEE Xplore covers engineering and computer science papers. ScienceDirect and JSTOR allow searches of journals, and Directory of Open Access Journals contains freely accessible articles. Google Scholar functions as an academic search engine, and EBSCO provides access to books held by the writer's library. Using these credible databases can help locate relevant literature for research topics.

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    Important Databases

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    Kimberly Lim
    These ten databases provide access to scholarly literature and research across various academic fields. Scopus and Web of Science are large commercial databases covering many disciplines. PubMed is especially useful for medicine and biology as it contains over 30 million papers. ERIC focuses on education, while IEEE Xplore covers engineering and computer science papers. ScienceDirect and JSTOR allow searches of journals, and Directory of Open Access Journals contains freely accessible articles. Google Scholar functions as an academic search engine, and EBSCO provides access to books held by the writer's library. Using these credible databases can help locate relevant literature for research topics.

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    Kamela Anne Lorraine Lim

    BS Psychology

    10 Important Databases

    1. Scopus 6. ScienceDirect
    2. Web of Science 7. Directory of open Access Journals
    3. PubMed 8. JSTOR
    4. Eric 9. Google Scholar
    5. IEEE Xplore 10. EBSCO

    These ten important databases will help you find related literature prior to your research
    topic. It will help you to easily locate the literature you are looking for. Scopus is one of the two
    big commercial that cover scholarly literature. Besides it also provide academic journal ranking,
    authors and profile. Web Science is an academic institution wherein it provides access to web
    science. PubMed is the number one resource for anyone looking for literature in medicine or
    biological science. It provides bibliographic details of more than 30 million papers and full text
    links to the publisher sites and links to the free PDF. ERIC is for education sciences and a
    database that specifically hosts education-related literature. IEE Xplore is the leading academic
    database in the field of engineering and computer science. It is not only for journal, articles, but
    also conference papers, standards and books that can be search of. Science Direct is the gateway
    to the millions of academic articles published by Elsevier. It can provide for more than 2,500
    journals and more than 40,000 e-books can be search via single interface. A Directory of Open
    Access Journals is a very special academic database since all the articles indexed are open access
    and can be accessed freely charge. 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 offer
    scholarships for independent researcher. Google Scholar is a free academic search engine that
    can be thought of as the academic version of Google. And lastly is the EBSCO is an online
    version of print books that your library has either purchased with a perpetual license or via an
    annual subscription. Prior in finding the related literature for your research paper you need to
    consider the databases you are going to use and the reliability of the literature. You need to
    ensure that you are using credible information.

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