How to find the literature you need?

First of all, you need to find a website with rich literature database resources, which can be downloaded by both Chinese and foreign literatures, thus saving energy and time. For example: Literature Party Downloader (wxdown.org), which integrates Chinese and foreign literature databases, can use major authoritative databases at home.

Secondly, we need to know some common literature databases (all of which are included in the downloader of Literature Party). For example,

China Knowledge Network is an advanced digital library integrating knowledge discovery, knowledge management and knowledge service, which provides readers at home and abroad with unified retrieval and navigation of academic literature resources such as China academic literature, foreign literature, dissertations, newspapers, conferences, yearbooks, reference books, citation libraries and China economic and social big data research platform. The disciplines cover a wide range, including social science, natural science and technical science, and support cross-database retrieval.

Wanfang Database is a large-scale network database developed by wanfang data Company, covering periodicals, conference minutes, papers, academic achievements and academic conference papers; It is also a professional academic database in China, which enjoys the same reputation as China HowNet.

VIP's domestic large-scale Chinese periodical literature service platform provides all kinds of academic papers, model essays, courseware for primary and secondary schools, teaching materials and other literature downloads.

Baidu Academic is a free academic resource search platform under Baidu. It has collected more than 1.2 million domestic and foreign academic websites including HowNet, VIP, Wanfang, Elsevier, Springer, Wiley and NCBI, indexed more than 1.2 billion academic resource pages, and built more than 68 million academic documents including academic journals, conference papers, dissertations, patents and books. Some documents can be downloaded directly.

Google Academic is a search engine that can search academic articles for free, including most published academic journals in the world, and can search academic documents widely. Google Academic can learn about academic literature in a certain field; Understand the writings of an author and provide bibliographic information (book publishing information or periodical title and issue information necessary for citation). Can directly search the original text, abstracts, etc. on the Internet; Understand the citation of a document; Apply and cite the documents and periodicals.

sci-hub searches the website for downloading foreign literature for free, but the website is unstable and no new literature can be found.

PubMed is an Internet biomedical information retrieval system developed by the National Biotechnology Information Center (NCBI) under the National Library of Medicine (NLM), which provides some free and paid full-text link services.

ProQuest is an institution designated by the Library of Congress to collect doctoral and master's theses from all over the United States, ProQuest Dissertations &; Theses Global(PQDT Global) is the largest and most widely used doctoral and master thesis database in the world. PQDT Global covers science, engineering, economics and management science, health and medicine, history, humanities and social sciences.

SpringerLink is the world's largest online academic resource platform in the fields of science, technology and medicine (STM). Springer's e-book database includes various Springer book products, such as monographs, textbooks, manuals, atlases, reference books, series and so on.

Wiley, founded in 187, is one of the largest academic publishers in the world, providing necessary knowledge and services for professionals, researchers, educators, students and lifelong learners. It involves a comprehensive subject.

Elsevier(ScienceDirect) is a world-famous academic journal publisher in the Netherlands. It publishes a large number of academic books and journals every year, most of which are included by SCI, SSCI and EI, and it is recognized as a high-grade academic journal in the world.

the Web of Science includes authoritative and influential journals in various disciplines. Because of its strict journal selection criteria and citation index mechanism, the web of science has become one of the most important basic evaluation tools of bibliometrics and scientometrics as well as a document retrieval tool. Including three famous citation index databases (SCI, SSCI, A&; HCI)。

EI enjoys a high reputation in the academic, engineering and information circles all over the world, and it is an important retrieval tool recognized by the scientific and technological circles. The content includes the research results of all engineering disciplines and engineering activities.

Related fields: mechanical engineering, electromechanical engineering, ship engineering, manufacturing technology, etc.

mining, metallurgy, materials engineering, metal materials, nonferrous metals, ceramics, plastics and polymer engineering, etc.

civil engineering, building engineering, structural engineering, ocean engineering, water conservancy engineering, etc.

Taylor & Francis has the largest number of social science journals in the world, and the database has increased from more than 1,19 journals in 214 to 1,559 journals. All high-quality academic journals have been reviewed by experts. About 7% of journals are included in the Web of Science.

JSTOR, whose full name is Journal Storage, is a non-profit organization that digitizes back issues. It was established in August 1995. At present, JSTOR's full-text database is the full-text database of representative academic journals with political science, economics, philosophy, history and other humanities and social subjects as the center, as well as general scientific topics.

Four famous journals in the world: Nature, Science, Cell and PNAS

Top medical journals in the world: The Lancet -《Thelancet, New England Journal of Medicine -《NEJM, Journal of American Medical Association -《JAMA.