LibGuides: Literature reviews: Tips on how to write a literature review: Web Resources

Search Engines

Google Scholar (for Washburn users)
Search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, pre-print repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.

eScholarship Repository
an open access publishing platform for pre-prints, post-prints, peer-reviewed articles, edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals
MERLOT
find peer reviewed online teaching and learning materials
OAIster
Peer Reviewed Catalog of Digital Resources

Internet subject directories organize web sites into subject categories. Here are some examples you may want to check out:

InfoMine - a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty and students at the university level
Intute - science, engineering and technology; arts and humanities; social sciences; health and life sciences

Scitopia - search over 3.5 million documents, plus patents and government data
Science.gov - a gateway to over 50 million pages of authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. government agencies, including research and development results
WorldWideScience.org - a global science gateway--accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases
TechXtra - search 4 million items in engineering, mathematics and computing from 31 top sources

Biznar - a free, publicly available business search site that uses advanced technology to return high quality results