The following list of resources primarily focus on getting information about who is getting funding and for what, who is cited the most, and who are the key researchers and leaders in the field. The resources will also point researchers to free scientific literature and studies.
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CiteCeerX Beta
This is a large digital scientific library with a heavy focus on computer and information science. Promotes dissemination of scholarly articles and provides citation.
Community of Expertise (through Community of Science)
Search among 500,000 profiles of researchers from 1,600 institutions throughout the world. Discover who's doing what -- current research activity, funding received, publications, patents, new positions and more.
CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects)Searchable database of federally funded biomedical research projects conducted at universities, hospitals, and other research institutions. Can search for scientific concepts, emerging trends and techniques, or identify specific projects and/or investigators.
ISI HighlyCited.comSM
An internet, free-access product that collects the work of the world's most cited and influential researchers. It is designed to feature the world's most influential researchers and offer access to information about key contributors to science and technology during the period from 1981 to 1999. Limitations of this resource include the older years of coverage and it only highlights highly cited researchers drawn from the commercially licensed ISI Web of Science product.
ISI Web of Knowledge (subscription)
Search tool that lets you use a particular article or author as a starting point to see who has cited that work since it was published. Years of coverage: 1955 to present. Subject coverage includes science, medicine, engineering, social sciences and humanities.
OAIster
Searches for and retrieves open access/freely available digital resources from 275+ institutions and organizations around the world; BioMed Central, PubMed Central, National Academies Press, and other open access and self-archiving repositories are searched by this service.
OpenDOAR: The Directory of Open Access Repositories
This site lists, describes and indexes over 100 digital repositories that are open to public searching and data harvesting.
PubMed
Biomedical and life sciences database from the National Library of Medicine containing mostly abstracts. Can link to full-text articles if you have journal subscriptions.
Scitopia (partly free)
Federated search engine that searches journal articles of societies. If your organization maintains full-text subscriptions, users can click trough to the full-text from the abstract.
Scopus (subscription)
A comprehensive database for scientific, technical and medical information, containing approximately 13,000 journal titles from 4,000 publishers, and abstracts going back to 1966. It provides searching capability, linking to full-text sources (if you have subscriptions), cited references, and saved search and alerting feature.
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