Well, we just added @ResearchGate and validated these functionalities. Turns out that none of them work reliably, unfortunately: Boolean search results do not add up, showing inadequate results, and neither exact searches with "", nor nested searches with () seem to work.

Google Scholar not only launched its 2023 metrics , but it sports a new preview of abstracts.

scholar.google.com/citations?view…

Upon popular request we now support filtering based on database type!
E.g. you can compare all 'journal platforms' operated by publishers and see differences in open access coverage (image). Or you can limit to databases by aggregators (ProQuest, Web of Science, Ebsco, Ovid) etc.

*JUST ADDED*
We now cover @policy_commons, a database that covers about 3.8 million policy reports from NGOs, agencies, think tanks, and cities. The database is paywalled, but it allows 25 free searches per month.
(1/2)
#policy #ngo

*JUST ADDED*
Good news for economists and business researchers! We now cover @econbiz (online again after a hack). Among econ-specialized databases, EconBiz's coverage gets only beaten by ABI/Inform, which covers many non-scholarly works, though. (1/3)
#economics #business

Here is how @PLOS compares against other fully open-access resources: @DOAJplus
, @Paperity, @zbMATH Open, and @arXiv:3/3

searchsmart.org/s/f9b8c8c3-45d…

JUST ADDED: Search Smart now lists the open-access publisher @PLOS -->PLOS stands for Public Library of Science and has 12 journals, of which seven are listed in the Science Citation Index Expanded. Here are some interesting things we found out: (1/3

searchsmart.org/results/plos

Looking for the best academic databases for medical literature? Check out this list of the most spezialiced sources:Spoiler: there is a lot more than @PubMed.

@CochraneIrmg #medlibs #ukmedlibs @MedLibAssn
@HealthLibsAust

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