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Finding a good source to start with is often the most difficult part of research. Searching the plain-old internet will just leave you frustrated. But, once you find a good source (one with references), you can often just follow the other references provided in that source to better understand a topic or research area.

By the way, Eduify makes capturing quotes from these 5 sources below really easy! So, get researching and then use Eduify to capture your quotes with a click of a button. We capture the quote, all sorts of search data around it and also the bibliography. You can then drop it in your paper later with the bibliography automatically created. It’s a snap, really.

Anyway, here are five great starting places for any essay or research assignment!

5. Highwire Press

From Stanford,Highwire Press offers free full text of scholarly journals (list limited to journals published online with the assistance of HighWire Press). Most of these scholarly journals are limited to the field of medicine, but they are a good resource for those writing science papers.

4. Directory of Open Access Journals

At the DOAJ, 1575 journals are searchable for free at the article level. Every day, new articles are added to their growing database. They have 158 journals, for instance, in Languages and Literatures that can be useful in writing literary papers.

3. Project Muse

Project Muse is a database providing full content of scholarly journals in many subjects, though it’s not free like Highwire or the DOAJ. The subscription license was “designed with librarians, for librarians” so the collection is definitely well-thought out and useful. These types of scholarly access databases are expensive to access individually, but if you are at a library or on a college campus with your computer and have access to their wireless system, you can access Project Muse for free if the institution has a subscription.

2. Google Scholar

Google Scholar is amazing, because it lets you search through the web to locate scholarly articles, theses, and texts in journals and books in possibly the easiest search format of all of these tools. Not all of the texts are free, though you can view abstracts for free to decide if you want to buy the source material.

1. JSTOR

JSTOR is a nonprofit organization committed to scholarship, for scholars. It’s supported by the scholarly community for the community, and it’s the single best database of scholarly works on the web. You can access JSTOR at a public institution like a library, museum, or at a university or academic institution. Of all the online databases, JSTOR is the one that offers the highest quality of academic material for the humanities.