The world of niche search engines
Google is ubiquitous, but other engines in niche areas offer more specific searches for specialist areas. Here are a few:
A search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than five billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers.
A resource for locating unique, trustworthy materials that you often can’t find anywhere except in a library. Includes 20 thousand libraries worldwide, including rare book collections.
A not-for-profit scholarly publishing cooperative committed to providing open access to bioscience journals published in developing countries
Research Papers in Economics (RePEc): Volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.
BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines for academic web resources. Provides access to more than 340 million documents from more than 11,000 content providers., about 60% of which are Open Access. Operated by Bielefeld University Library, Bielefeld, Germany.
