Alumni Resources: Journal Articles & Reports

This nonprofit is both an open access database and a browser extension. It harvests scholarly articles from 50,000 publishers and repositories to make it easy to find freely available research.

From Web of Science, this extension searches for free full text for you while you search PubMed, Google Scholar, etc.

Paste your article citation into the search box in this database to see if there is an open access version.

Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research. Use settings to set Library Links to show MWU full-text and Bibliography manager to send to reference management software.

Semantic Scholar is a nonprofit, academic search engine that searches 180 million scientific papers across all areas of science. The search engine uses AI help researchers find better academic publications faster. Limit to “Has PDF.”

A smart, fast tool to find high quality clinical research evidence. Sort by type of evidence. No free articles. Copy and paste article titles into Google Scholar to see if full-text is freely available.

AGRICOLA, from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library, provides access to more than 8 million records covering all aspects of agriculture and related disciplines.

Education Resource Information Center (ERIC), provides access to education literature and research

Department of Energy search tool for science, technology, and engineering research and development results and the organizational hub for information. OSTI makes discoverable over 75 years of research results from DOE and its predecessor agencies.

PTSDpubs database (formerly PILOTS) is a freely available, online database providing access to the worldwide literature on PTSD and other mental health consequences of exposure to traumatic events. It is produced by the National Center for PTSD.

Science.gov is an official website of the U.S. government providing ready access to the massive stores of federally funded scientific research results, without needing to know which agency funded the research.

DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

Open access articles and content from JAMA.

JSTOR is a digital library for articles, books, images, and primary sources across 75 disciplines. They offer an open access search feature. You can also create a free, personal account which allows you to read up to 100 articles every 30 days.

A nonprofit, open access publisher with multidisciplinary journals. Find peer-reviewed articles on medicine, genetics, pathogens, biology, and more.

Peer-reviewed open access journals from Wolters Kluwer.

NGO Search is a Google Custom Search that searches across hundreds non-governmental organization (NGO) websites. NGO Search is a project of the International Documents Taskforce (IDTF) and the Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT) of the American Library Association.

International governmental organizations (IGOs) are organizations made up of more than one national government. IGO Search is a Google Custom Search that searches across IGO websites. It is a project of the International Documents Taskforce (IDTF) and the Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT) of the American Library Association.

CADTH's Grey Matters resource is a free online tool for finding health-related grey literature that are not published commercially and which may be inaccessible via bibliographic databases.

A free, open-source tool that researchers can use to manage and share their projects. It contains papers, data, and other materials researchers have used for projects. With a free account, you can also upload and share your work.

MedRxiv is a preprint server that distributes completed manuscripts, unpublished and before peer-review, on human health research.

bioRxiv is a preprint server, distributing completed manuscripts, unpublished and before peer-review, reporting new, confirmatory, or contradictory findings in the biological sciences.

PsyArXiv is a free preprint service for the psychological sciences maintained by The Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science.

SSRN provides over 1 million preprints and research papers from over 65 disciplines. This includes applied sciences, health sciences, life sciences, physical sciences, social sciences, and more.