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Citation Help Guide - Information, tips, and examples of different citations styles

Zotero - A free citation-management tool that keeps sources organized and generates in-text citations and bibliographies

ScienceDirect Health & Life Sciences College Edition This link opens in a new window
Covers scientific and medical research

Google Scholar
A freely accessible web search engine that indexes scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines
IEEE Xplore
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is an American professional association for electronics engineering, electrical engineering, and other related disciplines. Freely searchable content but full text articles should be ordered through interlibrary loan.

arXiv
an electronic archive and distribution server for research articles in the areas of physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, quantitative biology and statistics
CiteSeerX
CiteSeerX is a digital library and search engine for scientific literature, focusing primarily on computer and information science. CiteSeerX provides algorithms, data, metadata, services, techniques, and software resources.
OpenAlex
OpenAlex is a bibliographic catalog of scientific papers, authors, and institutions accessible in open-access mode. Indexing over 250M scholarly works from 250k sources, with extra coverage of humanities, non-English languages, and the Global South. Links to 90M disambiguated authors and 100k institutions are included, and they are enriched with topic information, SDGs, citation counts, and more.

Warning: Because OpenAlex uses artificial intelligence and automatic algorithms to index articles, it contains many superfluous or false entries, often resulting in catalog entries that do not reflect scientific community standards for publication.

Astrobites
an astrophysical literature journal written to present one interesting paper per day in a brief format that is accessible to undergraduate students in the physical sciences who are interested in active research
Astrophysics Data System
The Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a digital library portal for researchers in astronomy and physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory under a NASA grant.
Digital Einstein Papers
collected papers of Albert Einstein, Princeton University
Khan Academy: Physics
Free video tutorials on concepts in physics
NASA STI Compliance and Distribution Services
NASA STI Compliance and Distribution Services manages a world-class collection of metadata records, full-text documents, and videos created or funded by NASA.