50 Places to Find Academic Sources for Your Essay

You probably would love your essays better if you could find academic sources for them faster. Today there’s nothing easier than finding the info you need on the web. At the same time, there’s nothing harder than finding credible sources.

That’s why I’ve compiled this list of trusted sources where you can not only find what you need, but also use the info in your papers not fearing your teachers’ reaction.

🌐 Academic Sources: Search Engines and Individual Publishers

1. Scholar.google.com
2. Directory of Open Access Journals
3. Web Lens Scholar
4. Aosis Open Journals
5. CoAction Publishing
6. Copernicus Publications
7. F1000Research
8. Highwire free online full-text articles
9. Hindawi Publishing Corporation
10. Open Book Publishers
11. Open Edition
12. PeerJ
13. Public Library of Science
14. Sage
15. The Company of Biologists

📚 University Libraries with Open Access Policies

16. MIT Libraries
17. Harvard Library Databases
18. Yale Digital Collections Center
19. University of Hawaii Library
20. Columbia University Libraries

👩‍⚕️ Open Academic Sources for Nursing Students

Of course, nursing students have special needs. And fortunately, the following open resources satisfy at least the need to find information:

21. Bio Med Central
22. American Association of Colleges of Nursing
23. Lippincott Nursing Center
24. The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing
25. Nursing Research and Practice Journal
26. Journal of Professional Nursing
27. The American Journal of Nursing
28. The Journal for Nurse Practitioners
29. Nursing Times
30. PubMed
31. MedScape Nurses
32. American Nurse Today
33. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
34. The Internet Journal of Academic Physician Assistants
35. The Internet Journal of Advanced Nursing Practice
36. BMC Nursing
37. Nursing: Research and Reviews
38. Evidence-Based Nursing
39. Current nursing
40. Pain Management Nursing

📑 Open Access to Academic Sources – Full Text Articles

41. Dovepress
42. Academic Journals
43. Open Library (JSTOR’s project)
44. National Agricultural Library
45. AGRIS Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
46. Analytical Sciences Digital Library
47. Anthropological Index Online
48. Arachne (Archaeology, Art History database)
49. Arnetminer (Computer Science database)
50. arXiv Cornell University Library

Hopefully, you’ll have no problem accessing academic sources you need.

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