Online Journals, Studies, etc.

[kdavid]

Hello All,

I'm currently completing an MA in Ancient Chinese History in China.

I've been very impressed by the amount of free (Chinese) information available. There are a number of free databases which provide tens of thousands of publications written by professors throughout the country. This makes it very easy to gather a lot of information from many different sources all in one place. This has made collecting (Chinese) data for my research easy.

However, I'm having a very hard time locating English sources. Does a similar free database exist which pools scholarly publications from western professors/universities/sources, etc?

[eco_env]

Lots, some of the more popular ones: Web of Science, Academic Search Complete, Lexis Nexis. Depends on what you are looking for. Or did you mean something else?

Edited December 5, 2011 by eco_env

[msafiri]

Lots, some of the more popular ones: Web of Science, Academic Search Complete, Lexis Nexis. Depends on what you are looking for. Or did you mean something else?

Probably not since those are databases that institutions subscribe to, meaning they are not free.

Maybe Google Scholar could help?

[kdavid]

Probably not since those are databases that institutions subscribe to, meaning they are not free.

Maybe Google Scholar could help?

Yes, I'm looking specifically for free services.

I use Google Scholar. While it's great in theory, it's essentially just Google weeds out non-academic stuff. It's useful, but it's not located the content I need.

Edited December 9, 2011 by kdavid