I got inspired by the reading of a short paper written by Jonathan Tennant, entitled “Web of Science and Scopus are not global databases of knowledge” (2020). There I heard about some databases for the first time, like the Garuda portal or African Journals Online. It got me wondering: what else is out there and I do not know because my point of view is limited to the languages I speak and the place I live in?

So, my idea here is that we can share academic databases that we are familiar with and perhaps are not very well known in other countries or continents. Where do you do your research?

Here is a list of interesting links that I have collected, without strict criteria, reflecting my point of view as a Brazilian researcher in the field of Psychology.

Portal de Periódicos CAPES

https://www-periodicos-capes-gov-br.ezl.periodicos.capes.gov.br/index.php

Biblioteca Digital Brasileira de Teses e Dissertações (BDTD)

http://bdtd.ibict.br/vufind/

Portal brasileiro de publicações científicas em acesso aberto

https://oasisbr.ibict.br/vufind/

Emerging Research Information (Preprints)

https://preprints.ibict.br/

Sumários de revistas brasileiras

https://sumarios.org/

Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) internacional

https://www.scielo.org/

Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) Brasil

https://www.scielo.br/

SciELO Livros

http://books.scielo.org/

SciELO Preprints

https://preprints.scielo.org/index.php/scielo

Periódicos Eletrônicos de Psicologia (PePSIC)

http://pepsic.bvsalud.org/

Biblioteca Virtual de Psicologia

http://www.bvs-psi.org.br/php/index.php

Base de datos de Psicología (PSICODOC)

http://www.psicodoc.org/index.php

Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde (BVS)

https://bvsalud.org/

Literatura Latino-americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde (LILACS)

https://lilacs.bvsalud.org/

The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

https://doaj.org/

Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal (Redalyc)

https://www.redalyc.org/home.oa

Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO)

http://clacso.redalyc.org/#/home

Directory of Open Access Books

https://doabooks.org/

OpenEdition

https://books.openedition.org/

Open Book Publishers

https://www.openbookpublishers.com/

JURN

http://www.jurn.org/#gsc.tab=0

Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE)

https://www.base-search.net/

Science Open

https://www.scienceopen.com/

Lens

https://www.lens.org/

Dimensions

https://www.dimensions.ai/

Semantic Scholar

https://www.semanticscholar.org/

Repositórios científicos de acesso aberto de Portugal

https://www.rcaap.pt/

J-Stage

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/

African Journals Online

https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajol

Directory for Arabian Journals

http://www.dfaj.net/

Iraqi Scientific Journals

https://www.iasj.net/iasj

Garuda

https://garuda.ristekbrin.go.id/

CAIRN

https://www.cairn.info/

Érudit

https://www.erudit.org/fr/

Persée

https://www.persee.fr/

HAL Archives ouvertes

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/search

Perspectivia

https://perspectivia.net/content/index.xml

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