ADS is a NASA-funded project that provides citations and/or abstracts to articles in fields that include: astronomy, astrophysics, geophysics, and the Los Alamos preprint server. Includes some full-text.
NASA is using PMC to permanently preserve and provide easy public access to the peer-reviewed papers resulting from NASA-funded research.
Scitation (SPIN Web)
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Scitation is the online home of leading journals and conference proceedings from AIP Publishing and AIP Member Societies. Scitation offers online access to a robust collection of close to 1 million articles from leading physical sciences publications including journals, conference proceedings, and magazines published by AIP Publishing and its publishing partners.
The SIMBAD astronomical database provides basic data, cross-identifications, bibliography and measurements for astronomical objects outside the solar system.
Search a Different Subject-Specific Database
If your research intersects with another discipline--such as math, chemistry, or the life sciences--these databases may be helpful.
MathSciNet
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Provides citations to the world's mathematical literature including journal articles, conference proceedings, and books. Topics covered include all aspects of mathematics, statistics, and related areas. Cover 1940-present.
PubMed
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Free database of biomedical and related life and behavioral sciences journal articles. Includes MEDLINE index and links to PubMed Central open access articles when available.
A free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. Authors are able to make their findings immediately available to the scientific community and receive feedback on draft manuscripts before they are submitted to journals.
A free submission, distribution, and archive service for unpublished preprints in chemistry and related areas. Gives researchers the opportunity to share early results ahead of formal peer review and publication.
Search a Database That Spans Multiple Disciplines
Web of Science
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Find multidisciplinary scholarly articles (sciences, social sciences, and humanities). Citation searching also allows search for highly cited articles and books.
JSTOR
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Provides full-text and page images from many of the top journals in most academic disciplines. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.
Google Scholar
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Search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports in all disciplines. Linked to Tripod.
After creating an account, ResearchRabbit allows you to import your Zotero references. It provides you with a variety of data analytics that can help identify other papers of interest, with alternative network-based visualizations for how they connect to your other papers. Useful for identifying additional relevant papers.
Search an Individual Journal
Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Covers significant developments in the fields of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Nature
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A weekly international, interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal of science.
Nature Communications
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Physics of Fluids
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Theoretical, computational, and experimental publications to provide an understanding of the dynamics of gases, liquids, or complex fluids.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
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Science
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Leading journal of original scientific research, news, and commentary