To match global standards of high quality research, in all academic disciplines under its purview, the University Grants Commission (UGC) aspires to stimulate and empower the Indian academia through its “Quality Mandate”. A public notice was issued by the UGC, on the 28th of November, 2018, to announce the establishment of a dedicated Consortium for Academic and Research Ethics (CARE) to carry out this mandate.
Inspec is a major indexing database of scientific and technical literature, published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and formerly by the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE). Containing over 13 million records, Inspec has been established for over 40 years with the reputation as one of the best and most comprehensive databases for science engineering and technology research.
EBSCO's leading online full-text databases include access to full-text articles from peer-reviewed journals published by the world's most prestigious academic publishers. EBSCOhost-Electronic Journal Service is a gateway to numerous journals containing millions of articles from hundreds of different publishers around the world. Owing to the convenience and rich resource availability, EBSCOhost databases are the most-used by several institutions worldwide.
Directory of Open Access Journals is an online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals. It contains more than 10,000 journals from 135 countries.
ICI Journal Master List is an international indexing database of scientific journals within which submitted periodicals have been evaluated for almost 20 years. Index Copernicus Value is an evaluation standard for scientific journals. Its unique character is guaranteed by the fact that it enables annual organising the list of scientific journals from all around the world within ICI Journals Master List. It also gives – in the extended version – specific guidelines in relation to functional areas of a scientific journal that have to be improved in order to increase citation rate.
CNKI - China National Knowledge Infrastructure is a leading provider of academic resources, knowledge service and integrated solutions to all types of customers around the world. It is a key national information construction project under the lead of Tsinghua University, and supported by PRC Ministry of Education, PRC Ministry of Science, Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China and PRC General Administration of Press and Publication.
WorldCat is a union catalog that itemizes the collections of 72,000 libraries in 170 countries and territories which participate in the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) global cooperative. WorldCat is a cooperatively maintained set of data resources that comprise the most comprehensive global network of data about library collections and services.
Crossref is an official Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Registration Agency of the International DOI Foundation. It is run by the Publishers International Linking Association Inc. Crossref includes publishers with varied business models, including those with both open access and subscription policies. Crossref does not provide a database of fulltext scientific content. Rather, it facilitates the links between distributed content hosted at other sites.
SciLit The name Scilit uses components of the words “scientific” and “literature”. This database of scholarly works is developed and maintained by the open access publisher MDPI. Scilit is a comprehensive, free database for scientists using a new method to collate data and indexing scientific material. Their crawlers extract the latest data from CrossRef and PubMed on a daily basis.
J-Gate, is a massive database of journal literature, indexed from 36,987 e-journals with links to full text at publisher sites. It provides seamless access to millions of journal articles available online offered by 11,428 Publishers.
Updated annually, MIAR gathers key data for identification and analysis of journals. MIAR includes more than 28,000 publications, for each of which its presence and multidisciplinary repertoires BDD is analyzed and as a result their ICDS is obtained.
Advanced Science Index is an indexing service indexes scholarly journals in all areas and fields of science. It is aiming at rapid evaluation and indexing of all local and international journals.
ResearchBib, a academic resource publishing system builds research communities to discover and promote great research resources from around the world to maximize researcher’s academic social impacts. ResearchBib Network offers Banners and Sponsored Links in leading, high impact factor, and multiply indexed research resources website.
Road, the Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources, is a service offered by the ISSN International Centre with the support of the Communication and Information Sector of UNESCO
SHERPA RoMEO is an online resource that aggregates and analyses publisher open access policies from around the world and provides summaries of self-archiving permissions and conditions of rights given to authors on a journal-by-journal basis. RoMEO is a Jisc service and has collaborative relationships with many international partners, who contribute time and effort to developing and maintaining the service.
Baidu is a multi channel platform that connects the information and services. Baidu offers many services, including a Chinese search engine for websites, audio files and images. Baidu offers 57 search and community services.
The European Library (TEL) was launched by the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL) in 2004 as the union catalogue of European national libraries and has since become a web portal and open data hub for national library data in Europe.
Genamics JournalSeek is the largest completely categorized database of freely available journal information available on the internet. Integration of the JournalSeek database at an institution or college, will save time and money, and vastly increase the accessibility of scholarly information to your users.
The Scipers is a scientific and research collection designed to facilitate and target research processes and projects in the country. Scipers, the knowledge Club has been designed and launched with the aim of improving the qualitative and quantitative research of various graduate levels. The first obstacle facing high-value researchers in the country is easy access to global scientific resources, including prestigious magazine articles ( ISIs ) and digital books ( Ebooks ).
Base is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 140 million documents from more than 6,000 sources. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access). BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.
Microsoft Academic is a free service to help the academic community find academic content, researchers, institutions and activities. MA is not limited to just searching for papers. It provides related information about the most relevant authors, institutions, publication outlets, and research areas.
