WMU Research Guides: Services for Alumni: Science Research Information

Google Scholar

Google Scholar Search engine for research articles and abstracts, that Google has indexed, from most major academic publishers and repositories worldwide, including both free and subscription sources.

AGRICOLA
National Agricultural Library
arXiv.org One of the first online scholarly repositories, this re-print server provides “open access to 1,486,542 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance, Statistics, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science, and Economics.” This is perhaps the oldest, and most well-established and respected scholarly open access site.
ChemIDplus ChemIDplus is a free, web search system that provides access to the structure and nomenclature authority files used for the identification of chemical substances cited in National Library of Medicine (NLM) databases.
ChemSpider ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database published by the Royal Society of Chemistry that provides text and structure search access to over 100 million structures from hundreds of data sources.
EPA National Catalog Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
National Library of Medicine products and services
National Science Foundation publications
PubChem
USGS Publications
U.S. Geological Survey
WorldWideScience database A global science gateway comprised of national and international scientific databases and portals.

Center for Disease Control Data and Statistics
Gene Database (NIH)
GeneReviews GeneReviews, an international point-of-care resource for busy clinicians, provides clinically relevant and medically actionable information for inherited conditions in a standardized journal-style format, covering diagnosis, management, and genetic counseling for patients and their families.
PubMed
PubMed Central PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).

Google Patents Search the patent literature for product designs, ideas, and images. Get a sense of how common products are constructed.
IET Journals - Institution of Engineering and Technology Fully open access journals from 2013-present. Covers electrical and computer engineering.
NASA Technical Reports Server An online database to technical reports published by various NASA centers and programs. Full text PDFs of many NASA technical reports are available from 1958 onward. In addition, full text PDFs of reports from NASA's predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics or NACA are available from 1917-1958.
National Technical Reports Library (NTRL)
TRAIL Technical Report Archive The Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL) identifies, acquires, catalogs, digitizes and provides unrestricted access to U.S. government agency technical reports.
TRID (Transportation Research International Documentation) TRID provides access to over 900,000 records of transportation research worldwide (books, government reports, trade publications and conference papers).
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
WorldWideScience Sponsored by OSTI.gov