100 Time-Saving Search Engines for Serious Scholars

While burying yourself in the stacks at the library is one way to get some serious research done, with today’s technology you can do quite a bit of useful searching before you ever set foot inside a library. Undergraduates and grad students alike will appreciate the usefulness of these search engines that allow them to find books, journal articles and even primary source material for whatever kind of research they’re working on and that return only serious, academic results so time isn’t wasted on unprofessional resources.

Categories are:

• General
• Meta search
• Database and archive
• Books and journals
• Science
• Maths and technology
• Social Science
• History
• Business and Economics
• Other niches
• Reference

I haven’t had chance to go through them, so don’t know how many are open access, but hopefully it will be of assistance to someone!