Scientific Search Engines

Forschungsportal
The BMBF has opened this new Internet portal that has been created to search for scientific publications and research promotions.

 

Google Scholar
Search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research and find articles from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.

 

MedPilot
German information portal for medical questions. It is possible to search in several free databases (including PubMed) with only one question.

 

Scirus
Comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology. Scirus searches over 167 million science-specific Web pages.

 

Vascoda
Internet gateway for scientific information in Germany.

 

Base
BASE is the name of the multi-disciplinary search engine for scientifically relevant web resources which was created and developed by Bielefeld University Library.

 

worldwidescience.org
WorldWideScience.org is the prototype for a global science gateway connecting you to national and international scientific databases, including vascoda.