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Open Access platforms and search engines
CORE (Open University & JISC)
The world’s largest collection of open access research papers.
BASE (Bielefeld University Library)
The Bielefeld Academic Search Engine contains about 60% open access content.
1findr
An abstracting, indexing and analytics (AI&A) system for research papers published in peer-reviewed journals, designed around a link-resolver, oaFindr, which specifically locates free versions of articles
Dimensions
Contains more than 100 million publications incl. articles from scholarly journals, books and book chapters, preprints and conference proceedings. Publications are linked data sets, funding information, publications, patents, clinical trials, and policy documents.
PubMed
Free search engine accessing primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics, maintained by the United States National Library of Medicine.
