Library guides for subjects and Library Services at City, University of London

Web of Science from Thomson Reuters is a multidisciplinary database covering •The Sciences, •Social Sciences •Arts and Humanities. It also allows citation searching so is useful for researchers.

Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with tools to track, analyse and visualize research in support of the research process.

ZETOC provides access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents (ETOC). The database contains details of approximately 20,000 current journals and 16,000 conference proceedings published per year. With almost 15 million article and conference records, the database covers every imaginable subject. The database covers the years from 1993 to date and is updated daily

EndNote is the industry standard software tool for publishing and managing bibliographies, citations and references on the Windows and Macintosh desktop.

HumBox is a new way of storing, managing and publishing your Humanities teaching resources on the web. Share handouts, exercises, podcasts, videos

Through Jorum, you can find and share learning and teaching resources, shared by the UK Further and Higher Education community.

Other blogs for researchers

Blogs, groups and forums

Should social science researchers embrace social media and, if we do, what are the implications for our methods and practice?

Facebook, social networking site.

Manage your professional identity. Build and engage with your professional network.

Academia.edu is a place to share and follow research

Publish or Perish is a software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It uses Google Scholar to obtain the raw citations, then analyses these and presents the following statistics

Eigenfactor and article infuence scores.

Search the entire collection of journals covered by Scopus along with their SNIP and SJR metrics going back to 2007.

The SCImago Journal & Country Rank is a portal that includes the journals and country scientific indicators developed from the information contained in the Scopus database

RefWorks is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool. It designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.

Zotero is a web browser based, free tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources.

Social news and entertainment website