Databases/Journals
Free / Partially Free Databases
IEEE Xplore
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/home.jspIEEE Xplore is the leading academic database in the field of engineering and computer science. It's not only journal articles, but also conference papers, standards and books that can be search for.
ERIC
https://eric.ed.gov/For education sciences, ERIC is the number one destination. ERIC stands for Education Resources Information Center, and is a database that specifically hosts education-related literature.
ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/ScienceDirect is the gateway to the millions of academic articles published by Elsevier, 1.4 million of which are open access. Journals and books can be searched via a single interface.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
https://doaj.org/The DOAJ is an open-access academic database that can be accessed and searched for free.
JSTOR
https://www.jstor.org/JSTOR is another great resource to find research papers. Any article published before 1924 in the United States is available for free and JSTOR also offers scholarships for independent researchers.
