Journal Articles and Reports

This is a list of no-cost sources that list or index journal articles or reports. At these sites you'll find journal articles, scientific and technical reports, conference papers, fact sheets, news transcripts, preprints, and dissertations. Some provide access to the full texts of articles and reports.

Employees of the U.S. Department of the Interior are reminded they may also search for journal articles by using Academic OneFile, EBSCO Online, JSTOR Life Sciences Collection, Science Direct, or the Science and Technology Collection. Many employees may search these databases at their desks, while others must come to the Library or contact a Reference Librarian for assistance.

• AGRICOLA 
  Database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators
• BioMed Central 
  Publisher of more than 170 peer-reviewed open access journals
• Chemistry Central 
  Chemistry Central is a new service publishing peer-reviewed open access research in chemistry, from BioMed Central
  
• Congressional Research Service Reports
  • OpenCRS 
    A project of the Center for Democracy & Technology
  • Congressional Research Service Reports 
    Collected and made available by the University of North Texas Libraries
  • CRS Reports on the Environment 
    Digitized by the National Council for Science and the Environment
  • CRS Reports on Congressional Procedures and the Budget process 
    Maintained by the Rules Committee of the House of Representatives
• Digital Book Index 
  Digital Book Index provides links to more than 141,000 full-text digital books from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. More than 100,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free.
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• Environmental journals on the Internet 
  187 journals are grouped according the amount of information provided on-line for free; maintained by the National Council for Science and the Environment
• E-Print Network 
  Searchable gateway to preprint servers that deal with scientific and technical disciplines
• ERIC database 
  Educational research reports funded by the U.S. Department of Education
• ETD digital library 
  Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
• Federal R & D Project Summaries 
  Federal R & D Project Summaries provides a portal to information about Federal research projects, complete with full-text single-query searching across databases residing at different agencies. It uses research summary and awards data (over 240,000 records) from the Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation.
• GEOSCAN database 
  Earth Sciences Information Centre (ESIC) of Natural Resources Canada, which has also made available the RESORS (REmote Sensing On-line Retrieval System) database of publications from 1950 to 1995
• Google Scholar 
  From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
• IDEAS: research papers in economics (RePEc)
• IngentaConnect 
  An indexing and current awareness service that covers over 30,000 journals, in all subjects, from 1989 to the present. Most comprehensive indexing, but no full text.
• NASA Technical Report Server
• National Geographic Society publication index
• OAIster 
  A union catalog of digital resources, OAIster provides one-stop "shopping" for users interested in useful, academically-oriented digital resources, such as digitized (i.e., scanned) books and articles, born-digital texts, audio files (e.g., wav, mp3), images (e.g., tiff, gif), movies (e.g., mp4, quicktime), and datasets (e.g., downloadable statistics files)
• OpenDOAR: the directory of open access repositories
• Population index
• PubMed Central 
  Free online access to the full text of life science research articles"
• Quakeline database 
  Covers earthquakes, earthquake engineering, natural hazard mitigation, and related topics
• The Science Accelerator 
  Allows you to search many of the Department of Energy's databases as once
• Science.gov 
  Science.gov is a gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results.
• Scirus 
  Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet.
• SORA: Searchable Ornithological Research Archive 
  An open access electronic journal archive and is the product of a collaboration between the American Ornithologists Union, the Cooper Ornithological Society, the Association of Field Ornithologists, the Wilson Ornithological Society and the University of New Mexico.
• Television News Archive 
  Maintained at Vanderbilt University
• TRIS Online 
  Books, journal articles, and technical reports on transportation research from the 1960's to the present
• USGS (Geological Survey) Publications Warehouse
• The Virtual Technical Reports Center eprints, preprints, & technical reports on the Web  
  Produced by the University of Maryland, College Park's Technical Reports Center
• WorldWideScience.org 
  A global science gateway connecting you to national and international scientific databases. WorldWideScience.org accelerates scientific discovery and progress by providing one-stop searching of global science sources.