Research Toolkit: Literature Review

Databases, preprint servers, and reference managers for running a literature review without losing a single source. One link for the whole lab.

6/13/2026
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Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Search across a wide variety of disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions.

scholar.google.com
PubMed

PubMed

PubMed® comprises more than 40 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

arXiv.org e-Print archivecontact arXivsubscribe to arXiv mailings

Preprints in physics, maths, CS, and quantitative fields.

arxiv.org

Zotero | Your personal research assistant

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

www.zotero.org
Connected Papers | Find and explore academic papers

Connected Papers | Find and explore academic papers

Connected Papers is a visual tool to help researchers and applied scientists find academic papers relevant to their field of work.

www.connectedpapers.com
Semantic Scholar | AI-Powered Research Tool

Semantic Scholar | AI-Powered Research Tool

Semantic Scholar uses groundbreaking AI and engineering to understand the semantics of scientific literature to help Scholars discover relevant research.

www.semanticscholar.org

JSTOR Home

JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.

www.jstor.org