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Hidden Search Engines

Provides links to search engines not necessarily well known ("hidden") and other sources offering partial or free full-text content.

Hidden Browsers

  • Academic Resource Search - https://www.refseek.com/ - more than a billion sources from  encyclopedias, monographs, magazines.
  • BASE, Bielefeld Academic Search Engine - https://www.base-search.net/  - for academic research and studies texts, with over 100 million scientific documents, 70% are free.
  • Bioline International - http://www.bioline.org.br/ - collection of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries, a collaboration managed by scientists and librarians.
  • BRAVE - https://brave.com/ - browser.
  • DOAJ, Directory of Open Access Journals - https://www.doaj.org/ - full-text searchable database.
  • DuckDuckGo - https://duckduckgo.com/ - private browser.
  • RePEc, Research Papers in Economics - http://repec.org - volunteer-based initiative seeking to enhance the dissemination of research in Economics and related areas from 102 countries with approximately 4 million publications. 
  • Science.Gov - https://www.science.gov/ is an U.S. Government search engine on 2200+ scientific sites.  More than 200 million articles are indexed.
  • SpringerLink - https://link.springer.com – publisher/vendor providing access to more than 10 million scientific documents, books, articles, research protocols.
  • WorldCat OCLC FirstSearch - https://search.worldcat.org/ - locate books and other materials you need from libraries local and international.  Also available from the FIU Libraries - https://library.fiu.

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