Databases

NOTE: Databases are collections of bibliographical references of scientific papers that can be searched in different ways and represent the most appropriate tools to locate scientific papers on a specific topic.

MULTIDISCIPLINARY DATABASES

• Scopus
• Web of Science
• Academic Search Complete
• Academic OneFile

INTEGRATED RESEARCH

Allows to search in several resources simultaneously, such as scientific papers, publishers, digital libraries, e-books, theses, reports, patents and web page databases.

• Integrated Research UA (EBSCO Discovery Service)
• b-on
• Google Scholar
• RCAAP – Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal [Portugal Open Access Scientific Repository]
• Web of Knowledge

THEMATIC DATABASES

SOCIAL SCIENCES

• Business Source Complete [Economics. Management]
• Emerald [Information Science]
• ERIC [Education]

MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL SCIENCES

• Current Chemical Reactions [Chemistry]
• Index Chemicus [Chemistry]  
• NASA Astrophysics Data Systems [Physics]
• zbMath [Mathematics]

APPLIED SCIENCES. MEDICINE. TECHNOLOGY

• ASCE – Civil Engineering database [Civil Engineering]  
• PubMed [Health]

LANGUAGES. LINGUISTICS. LITERATURE

• Early American Fiction [American Literature]
• Patrologia Latina [Literature]
• Artemis Literary Sources (eLibraryUSA)

COMMERCIAL PUBLISHER DATABASES

Scientific paper databases that only recover papers from journals published by the editor and that are also the only ones indexed to the database. These resources are part of b-on.

• ACM Digital Library [Electronic Eng. and Telecommunication]
• Annual Reviews [Multidisciplinary]  
• ACS-American Chemical Society [Chemistry]  
• AIP-American institute of Physics [Physics]  
• Science Direct [Multidisciplinary]  
• IEEE Xplore [Electronic Eng. and Telecommunication]  
• IOP – Institute of Physics [Physics]  
• RSC – Royal Society of Chemistry [Chemistry]
• SAGE [Social Sciences]
• SIAM [Mathematics]
• Springer [Multidisciplinary]
• Taylor and Francis [Multidisciplinary]  
• Wiley Interscience [Multidisciplinary]

CITATION COUNT AND BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS

• Web of Science
• JCR – Journal Citation Reports [Assesses and compares the Impact Factor of the scientific journals, from the several fields of knowledge, with data obtained from the database Web of Science]
• Scopus
• SJR – SCImago Journal & Country Rank [Includes scientific indicators related to journals and countries, with data obtained from the scientific paper database SCOPUS]