Academia.edu is a social networking website for academics. It was launched in September 2008 and had over 21 million registered users as of April 2015.The platform can be used to share papers, monitor their impact, and follow the research in a particular field. Academia.edu was founded by Richard Price, who raised $600,000 from Spark Ventures, Brent Hoberman, and others. Learn More
Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online journals of Europe and America's largest scholarly publishers,plus scholarly books and other non-peer reviewed journals. Learn More
Issuu is a free electronic publishing platform for magazines, catalogs, newspapers and more. As a digital newsstand with over 21 million publications and 85 million active readers Learn More
ResearchBib is a free academic database that indexes and provides open access to peer-reviewed journals, full text papers, research conferences & positions. Learn More
Scribd is a digital library and ebook, audiobook and comic book subscription service that includes one million titles. In addition, Scribd hosts 60 million documents on its open publishing platform. Learn More
