Build a "trail" from abstracts, keywords, and references.
Useful for academic verification. Cross-disciplinary.
Learn the ideas of digitizing sources and metadata.
High-quality issue summaries. From here, drop down to primaries.
A world-standard open-access preprint server for physics, mathematics, and computer science, where researchers post their latest papers directly. Operated by Cornell University, with free full-text access.
The world's largest literature-search system for medicine and life sciences, run by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Over 30 million records, freely searchable.
An international repository operated by CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), offering free preservation and sharing of research data, papers, and software — with DOIs automatically minted so the records are citable.
A non-profit, curated whitelist of peer-reviewed open-access journals from around the world. A reliable starting point that lets you avoid predatory journals when searching open-access literature.
A national research institute under MIC publishing research outcomes and official data on radio propagation, space weather, multilingual information, and cybersecurity. The space-weather forecast pages are also useful for earth-science inquiry.
RIKEN, Japan's comprehensive science research institute, publishes research outcomes, press explanations, and open data. Lets you follow the frontiers of basic science through primary materials and official videos.
A core institution of Japanese statistical science. Handles research and published data on the Study of the Japanese National Character, statistical learning, and data science. An official reference for how statistical inquiry is structured.
The core institution of Japanese-language research. Publishes official data on corpora, dialects, and linguistic atlases. A research base for Japanese-language and linguistic inquiry into vocabulary, grammar, and usage.
An independent administrative think tank under METI, publishing policy data, discussion papers, and statistical analyses. A first reference for policy and economic-history research.
Japan's official fisheries research agency, in charge of stock assessment, fishing-ground environment, and marine-biology surveys. Lets you read local fisheries and ecosystems as primary information from both ocean and food angles.
The life-science preprint server bioRxiv (run by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) and the medical preprint server medRxiv (BMJ / Yale / Cold Spring Harbor). The international standard for fastest access to pre-peer-review papers.
An international working-paper / preprint platform centred on social sciences (economics, law, policy, management). Lets you catch the global frontier of policy-oriented research early.
Run by the UK Open University, one of the world's largest open-access paper aggregators. Access to over 30 million full texts — lets you quickly find papers across disciplines with text available.
An international registry that assigns a unique ID to each researcher, linking works and outputs to the person unambiguously. Lets you follow a researcher's record across name changes and common names.
Over 230 million biodiversity observation records worldwide. Citizen science platform linked to GBIF.
Official academic society for geography in Japan — journals, research, and educational resources.
Official academic society for geology — journals, field guides, and educational content.