1) I do not have access to scopus because it's not free of charge; with this in mind, Which data bases do you suggest for searching papers relating to wearables and smart clothing?
2) is it enough to explore into ONE database for the purpose of systematic review?
Thanks.
I would suggest to consider all the databases that you have access to, then you need to evaluate them to understand if they cover the areas you are going to conduct your review on.
In regard to your second question, it highly depends on the database you are exploring and whether you can identify sufficient research in that database, otherwise, you would need to include other databases or you can use snowball sampling technique to identify more relevant articles for your review.
Generally, the combination of Embase, MEDLINE, Web of Science Core Collection, and Google Scholar help to exhaust best, while other specialized databases, such as CINAHL or PsycINFO, also help to add unique references to some reviews where the topic of the review is related to the focus of the database.
To exhaust the standing of each of the open access databases, information below below may help;
- Cochrane Library: CL is a collection of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. https://www.cochranelibrary.com/
- Google Scholar: This database is free to anyone, but access to the studies listed in your search results may be restricted. If you can’t get a particular study itself through a university/library affiliation, be sure to click “All Versions” at the bottom of the search result. Many scholars now post on their websites early PDF versions of their studies, and many of these will be listed. Google Scholar is where you’ll also have a chance to see findings in some scholarly books.
- PubMed Central: This database, from the U.S. National Institutes of Health, has more than 2 million open access, full-text studies that relate to public health and policy issues. The more general PubMed database contains more than 20 million articles, but some of them have restricted access. Both databases are worth searching.
- Microsoft Academic Search: This evolving database has tools for seeing connections between researchers and their work. It provides a “profile” of many academics and charts how their findings have been cited.
- Directory of Open Access Repositories (Open DOAR): This site, run by the University of Nottingham (U.K.), aggregates databases from around the world, locating open access research across disciplines.
- National Bureau of Economic Research: A nonprofit research organization that publishes top scholarship in the economics discipline. Many important articles first appear in working paper form here, and much of the scholarship has a broad, public policy focus.
- Social Science Research Network: This open-access database has hundreds of thousands of important, current papers, many of which are available for free download as PDFs. Many of the articles are “working papers,” meaning they are in process toward a final, published form.
- Directory of Open Access Journals: A growing database that covers only journals that are free and open to the public. Already, it provides access to more than a thousand U.S. journals, and many international ones.
- Mendeley: A database that crowd-sources selected studies from participating scholars around the world. You can join this project and curate your own selection of studies. Some studies are not open access, but the abstracts and titles are all there.
- Public Library of Science (PLoS): The flagship journal of this open-access academic project, PLoS One, features original peer-reviewed research on science and medical topics; many studies have policy implications.
- HighWire: A library and database project from Stanford University that provides full access to a huge collection of research. It is mostly science-related, but there is significant social science scholarship, as well.
- Full Text Reports: A site that aggregates research-related studies and reports from across the universe of information. The materials are hand-picked.
- Open CRS: The Congressional Research Service (CRS) operates as a quasi-think tank that provides reliable, unbiased background on policy issues. CRS does a good job of reviewing available research on issues. Open CRS aggregates these government reports as they come into the public domain.
- RAND Corporation: Non-partisan think tank that produces a wealth of information on social science topics. Some of the studies are by leading scholars who partner with RAND.
- Pew Research Center: Leading survey and research organization that not only does polling on salient issues in the news but provides deep, analytical reports around the issues.
- Russell Sage Foundation: An organization that is tied into a large network of social science scholars across the United States. With a particular focus on issues of inequality, social mobility, race, class and related issues.
- The Brookings Institution: A non-profit think tank, Brookings has a large network of scholars that produce reports and papers on a wide variety of important news topics.
pls go to google scholar.There will be papers which will have a pdf link on the right.They are all free of cost.Also RG is a big universe where authors do put their full text.So when you google your topic,some of the full text papers of authors will open from RG too.
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