What *academic* search engine do you recommend?.
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Hello. I am looking for a general purpose academic search engine. I want to avoid Google Scholar because of the well known evils of Google (mainly tracking). For the field of human biology I use PubMed and it works as expected, but its scope is limited. I see that there are many academic search engines apart from G. S. and I don't know which one to use. If you frequently consult the academic literature, which academic search engine do you use?.
Thanks in advance.
Sci-Hub and Library Genesis. Look them up.
Thanks for replying pizzaiolo, but those are not search engines.
->those are not search engines.
How could you say that on Sci-Hub?
Please explain...
"Sci-Hub is an online search engine with over 58,000,000 academic papers and articles available for direct download, bypassing publisher paywalls."→ wikipedia.org
I do have a list of places to use for searching, but I almost always
find such specific search engines to actually be missing most of the
findings I make, specially because they apparently only deal with text,
not other forms of scientific resource.
So, instead I suggest you to search on normal search engine and when you
find something interesting, do a basic reputation/background check on
who the author of such content is. If such person has at least one true
academic publication (only counting text in this case) in another place
(if he's writting in his own blog, or group blog, or if it's an
audio/video content) or in another issue or edition of the same journal,
then his article can **probably** be used as a reference.
To give you an idea, most of the good publications about the importance of
free/libre software movement/philosophy/actvism I have found aren't in
the academic search engines I have right now, and I'm not talking about
GNU.org, nor FSF.org, nor SFLW's website, nor FaiF.us, nor the FSF
sister organization's websites, nor Copyleft.org, nor SFConservancy's
website. Interestingly enough, some of these publications don't have
proper license, so this leaves a big question mark until I get the time
to contact the authors and ask which license the publication is under.
If you do insist on a list of academic search engines, though, here's
mine (most of then aren't search engines, but libraries. Besides, most
of the academic search engines existing in the world come with an onus:
requirement to run non-free software, through a way which you probably
have heard about, that is, JavaScript, but the language doesn't matter,
it would still be an issue with other language):
http://www12.senado.gov.br/institucional/biblioteca
http://www.dominiopublico.gov.br/pesquisa/PesquisaObraForm.jsp
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