Where can I find English literature? Finding the right direction and using the right tools can greatly improve the efficiency of learning and research! The following is a detailed introduction to 8 very useful websites for searching English literature.
1. Literature party downloader (wxdown.org): This website integrates almost all literature database resources, covering various types of literature and covering all subjects.
Some commonly used literature database resources integrated and collected by the literature party downloader are as follows:
Chinese databases: CNKI, Wanfang, VIP, Duxiu/Chaoxing, Pishu, Huike News Search and Research Database, copy materials of newspapers and periodicals of National People’s Congress, etc.
English databases: SpringerLink, Elsevier (sciencedirect), Wiley, Web of Science, PubMed, EI, ProQuest (foreign dissertations), etc. These are commonly used authoritative databases for searching English literature. There are also a large number of world-renowned journals, such as: nature "Nature", science "Science", CELL "Cell", PNAS "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences", the world's top medical journals: "The Lancet" The Lancet, "New England Medicine Journals" NEJM, "Journal of the American Medical Association" JAMA, "British Medical Journal" BMJ and so on.
The Document Party downloader not only has a lot of resources, but also has high authority. Many students can download documents that cannot be downloaded in their own schools, including documents that cannot be downloaded by sci-hub and Google Scholar.
2. Google Scholar: Search English literature for free, enter English keywords to search related literature, and learn about academic literature in a certain field; understand the works of a certain author, and provide bibliographic information (necessary book publication information or journal papers when citing title and issue information). However, only some documents are available for direct download.
3. sci-hub: A website for free downloading of English literature, which can be retrieved and downloaded through the DOI of the literature. However, the website is not stable and the domain name will be changed frequently, and there are no new literature. Currently, literature before 2022 can be retrieved using this site. 2022 and later literature sci-hub has not yet included.
4. Web of Science: It is an important database for obtaining global academic information, covering fields such as natural science, engineering technology, biomedicine, social science, art and humanities. Among them, SCIE, SSCI, A&HCI and other citation index databases, JCR journal citation reports and ESI basic scientific indicators are well-known in the global science and technology and education circles. You can check SCI journal literature and journal impact factors.
5. Elsevier (sciencedirect): It is a world-renowned academic journal publisher in the Netherlands. It publishes a large number of academic books and journals every year. Most of the journals are included in SCI, SSCI, and EI. It is recognized as a high-grade academic journal in the world. scienceDirect is the full-text database platform of Elsevier Corporation. It is the world's largest full-text electronic resource database of science, technology and medicine, providing the full-text content of more than 2,500 academic journals and more than 37,000 books. Including CELL "Cell Magazine" with high global influence, THE LANCET "Lancet Magazine" and so on.
6. Wiley: As one of the world's largest and most comprehensive online multidisciplinary resource platforms for peer-reviewed science, technology, medicine and academic research, Wiley Online Library is a full-text database of all-disciplinary periodicals, and its publications cover a wide range of disciplines—— Including chemistry, physics, engineering, agronomy, veterinary medicine, food science, medicine, nursing, stomatology, life science, psychology, business, economics, social science, art, anthropology and more than 1600 disciplines journals, 20,000 e-books, more than 170 online reference books, more than 580 online reference books, 19 laboratory guides (Current Protocols) for biology, life sciences and biomedicine, 17 chemistry, spectroscopy and evidence-based Medical database (Cochrane Library).
7. ProQuest: a full-text dissertation database, constructed from the full-text dissertations suitable for research and teaching by Chinese researchers in the PQDD abstract database (now called PQDT) of ProQuest Company, and provides full-text dissertations to readers of hundreds of scientific research and teaching units across the country Serve. It is currently the most complete, high-quality, and only database that can comprehensively query the full text of foreign dissertations.
8. SpringerLink: It is the world's largest online academic resource platform in the field of science, technology and medicine (STM). Springer's e-book database includes various Springer book products, such as monographs, textbooks, handbooks, atlases, reference works, series and more. Specific subjects involved: mathematics, physics and astronomy, chemistry, life sciences, medicine, engineering, computer science, environmental science, earth science, economics, law.
The above is the introduction of commonly used websites and literature databases for searching and downloading English literature. You can search for literature in the corresponding literature database according to the direction of your research field.