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MISATO, a dataset for structure-based drug discovery combines quantum mechanics property data and molecular dynamics simulations on ~20,000 protein–ligand structures, substantially extends the amount of data available to the community and holds potential for advancing work in drug discovery.

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Academic search engines have become the number one resource to turn to in order to find research papers and other scholarly sources. While classic academic databases like Web of Science and Scopus are locked behind paywalls, Google Scholar and others can be accessed free of charge. In order to help you get your research done fast, we have compiled the top list of free academic search engines.

Google Scholar is the clear number one when it comes to academic search engines. It's the power of Google searches applied to research papers and patents. It not only lets you find research papers for all academic disciplines for free but also often provides links to full-text PDF files.

• Coverage: approx. 200 million articles
• Abstracts: only a snippet of the abstract is available
• Related articles: ✔
• References: ✔
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• Export formats: APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, Vancouver, RIS, BibTeX

BASE is hosted at Bielefeld University in Germany. That is also where its name stems from (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine).

• Coverage: approx. 136 million articles (contains duplicates)
• Abstracts: ✔
• Related articles: ✘
• References: ✘
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• Export formats: RIS, BibTeX

CORE is an academic search engine dedicated to open-access research papers. For each search result, a link to the full-text PDF or full-text web page is provided.

• Coverage: approx. 136 million articles
• Links to full text: ✔ (all articles in CORE are open access)
• Export formats: BibTeX

Science.gov is a fantastic resource as it bundles and offers free access to search results from more than 15 U.S. federal agencies. There is no need anymore to query all those resources separately!

• Coverage: approx. 200 million articles and reports
• Links to full text: ✔ (available for some databases)
• Export formats: APA, MLA, RIS, BibTeX (available for some databases)

Semantic Scholar is the new kid on the block. Its mission is to provide more relevant and impactful search results using AI-powered algorithms that find hidden connections and links between research topics.

• Coverage: approx. 40 million articles
• Export formats: APA, MLA, Chicago, BibTeX

Although Baidu Scholar's interface is in Chinese, its index contains research papers in English as well as Chinese.

• Coverage: no detailed statistics available, approx. 100 million articles
• Abstracts: only snippets of the abstract are available
• Export formats: APA, MLA, RIS, BibTeX

RefSeek searches more than one billion documents from academic and organizational websites. Its clean interface makes it especially easy to use for students and new researchers.

• Coverage: no detailed statistics available, approx. 1 billion documents
• Abstracts: only snippets of the article are available
• Export formats: not available

Consider using a reference manager like Paperpile to save, organize, and cite your references. Paperpile integrates with Google Scholar and many popular databases, so you can save references and PDFs directly to your library using the Paperpile buttons:

Google Scholar is an academic search engine, and it is the clear number one when it comes to academic search engines. It's the power of Google searches applied to research papers and patents. It not only let's you find research papers for all academic disciplines for free, but also often provides links to full text PDF file.

Semantic Scholar is a free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature developed at the Allen Institute for AI. Sematic Scholar was publicly released in 2015 and uses advances in natural language processing to provide summaries for scholarly papers.

BASE , as its name suggest is an academic search engine. It is hosted at Bielefeld University in Germany and that's where it name stems from (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine).

CORE is an academic search engine dedicated to open access research papers. For each search result a link to the full text PDF or full text web page is provided.

Science.gov is a fantastic resource as it bundles and offers free access to search results from more than 15 U.S. federal agencies. There is no need any more to query all those resources separately!

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What are databases, further reading, learning objectives.

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• Identify at least two differences between the type of information available through general search engines and academic databases
• Understand what research databases are and why they are a valuable part of academic work

There are many types of databases that you can use for your research. The database you choose will depend on what type of information you want to find. 

Research databases, such as JSTOR and Academic Search Premier, uncover the world of scholarly information. Most of the content in these databases is only available through the library. The complete list of databases is on the Databases A-Z list. The Library has purchased access to hundreds of databases on your behalf. There is no charge to use these resources.

Search Engines 

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Let us search for the same thing in Google and in a general academic database called Academic Search Premier.

Search for the impact of social media on teenagers

Results in Google

Notes about these results in Google:

• 81,500,000 results
• Advertisements are the first two results
• Highlighted article with images from a high school
• Ability to quickly sort based on top Google categories: News, Images, Videos, Shopping

Search results in Academic Search Premier

Notes about these results in the Academic Search Premier database:

• 3 are from academic journals
• Able to quickly sort by scholarly qualification and publication date
• Avdic, A., & Eklund, A. (2010). Searching reference databases: What students experience and what teachers believe that students experience. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 42 (4), 224–235. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961000610380119

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New Database by IGS Researchers Reveals Inequities in Exposure to Energy Infrastructure

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A team of IGS and School of Public Health researchers are uncovering energy exposure hotspots and setting the stage for a more just energy transition. 

While a doctor may wish to prescribe a patient cleaner air or water, they cannot. Public policy and historical inequities largely influence a person’s exposure to the structural and environmental factors that affect their health. Preliminary analyses from a new database at Boston University indicate that 91% of United States census tracts are within a health-relevant distance of a piece of energy infrastructure, much of it fossil fuel-based, and that energy infrastructure is more densely concentrated in majority non-white census tracts.

Researchers at Boston University’s Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS) developed the database to equip policymakers, academics, community groups, and environmental justice organizations with information to understand who is most burdened by fossil fuel hazards and to advance equitable policies that minimize harmful exposures. Currently, the team is working to map existing energy infrastructure and the populations who live nearby across the United States. They ultimately intend to link this repository to data about population-level health outcomes, and make the tool freely available online through the Harvard Dataverse Repository.

Co-Principal Investigators Jonathan Buonocore and Mary Willis , both of whom are core faculty at IGS and assistant professors at the Boston University School of Public Health (BU SPH), unveiled the Energy Infrastructure Exposure Intensity and Equity Indices (EI3) Database at the May 7 Power & People Symposium hosted at BU. Their work was funded through IGS’s year-long Sustainability Research Grant, in partnership with SPH, to advance research at the nexus of sustainability, health, and equity. 

“In my experience, the most compelling thing, the thing that cuts through the noise more quickly and sharply than anything, is data,” said Matthew Tejada, senior vice president of Environmental Health at the Natural Resources Defense Council, in his keynote address at the symposium.

“We are in the beginning stages of a revolution, in our country and globally, in terms of how we make energy, where we make energy, how we use that energy,” Tejada said. “The fact that we’re just now getting in touch with our legacy energy system and the impact it has had on communities over time to today is incredibly important because that sort of data can cut through the noise. It can help communities understand where they are and where they might be going. And it allows advocates, decision-makers, and academicians to engage in a conversation grounded in the realities that communities are experiencing.”

The connection between energy and health

Energy infrastructure abounds. Power lines carry electricity overhead, freight transports biomass cross country, power plants are embedded where people live and work, and oil storage tanks, extraction wells, refineries, and pipelines are hidden in plain sight. These structures keep lights on, buildings functional, and cars running, but researchers are still learning how they impact surrounding neighborhoods. 

Many research teams have examined the relationships between particular pieces of energy infrastructure and discrete health outcomes, like the effects of natural gas flaring on asthma, oil extraction on preterm births, or power plants on mortality. A study published last year by Buonocore and colleagues found that regional air pollution from oil and gas production causes approximately 7,500 deaths and $77 billion in health impacts in the United States annually. 

By examining just one exposure at a time, these studies reveal only part of the story. Communities often face several hazards simultaneously, which can cause overlapping health effects undetected by traditional, targeted studies.

“One thing that is so powerful about [the EI3] dataset is that it really makes the connection between energy policy and public health policy. They are intertwined and they have profound impacts on each other,” said Andee Krasner, a volunteer at Mothers Out Front and a panelist at the symposium. “Energy policy touches every part of public health, from chronic disease to reproductive health to vector-borne diseases to pediatric health to emergency management.”

A powerful tool to promote environmental justice

Buonocore and Willis began work on the database after identifying gaps in the existing literature on the connection between energy, equity, and health. While the information underlying the database is public, it is scattered between multiple agencies and jurisdictions. Additionally, cross-state comparisons are challenging, as states are often subject to different rules for reporting. The EI3 Database represents the first time anyone has compiled all of this varied data into a harmonized national tool. 

“We wanted to gain a fuller understanding of the health and environmental justice impacts of full energy systems, rather than just focusing piecemeal on different pieces of the energy infrastructure,” Buonocore said. “And we wanted to expand the focus of health research to all components of the supply chain, not just focusing on the power plants and the wells, but looking at the full system. And third, we wanted to be able to compare the health and environmental justice implications across different energy types.” 

The EI3 Database assesses hazards throughout the supply chain, including extraction, processing, storage, transmission, and distribution. 

“Energy infrastructure is a highly common exposure in the United States, yet is not necessarily one we are always thinking about, especially in the population health world,” Willis said. “Persistently marginalized populations are disproportionately burdened with this industry, which aligns with what we know from other pieces of research.”

Early results from the database confirm that energy infrastructure is much more densely concentrated in majority non-white census tracts. 

“As director of the Fifth National Climate Assessment, I understand the value of data sets and tools like the one being presented today to address these complex challenges at the intersection of climate change, energy infrastructure, human health, and environmental justice,”  said Allison Crimmins, director of National Climate Assessment at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, at the symposium. “For a long time, these variables have been siloed into their own fields or data sets or reports.”

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Nearly 150 individuals from more than 20 local and national organizations registered to attend the symposium and learn about the EI3 Database, demonstrating the tool’s versatility. Attendees and speakers joined from government agencies including the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the United States Department of Energy, nonprofits such as Environmental Defense Fund, HEET, and Sierra Club, and advocacy groups like Greenroots and Mothers Out Front.

Researchers from across BU contributed to the project’s development, including IGS Associate Directors Emily Ryan , an a ssociate professor in the College of Engineering, and Henrik Selin , associate dean for studies and professor of international relations in the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies.

In academia, the EI3 Database opens the door for an infinite number of potential research projects. It could be applied to uncover fundamental learnings about how many people live near pieces of energy infrastructure, to what extent persistently marginalized groups are disproportionately affected, and what levels of key pollutants are emerging from understudied pieces of infrastructure. Meanwhile, community advocates and environmental justice organizations may use the data to understand which communities should be prioritized for renewable energy infrastructure. For policymakers, the EI3 Database may help determine where future climate infrastructure should be sited. This work all serves to establish a fair and just transition to a clean energy future.

“I’m really excited and inspired by researchers like you, who are focused on health exposures from energy infrastructure, who are breaking those silos and telling a more nuanced, complex story, one that really captures the real-life interactions between people and the planet, the real-life consequences of our choices,” Crimmins said. “I don’t think we can truly solve the climate crisis or address the legacies of injustice in this country if we don’t examine those interactions, if we don’t have the data to examine those interactions, and to inform policy decisions around achieving a just energy transition.”

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Research progress on two-dimensional indium selenide crystals and optoelectronic devices.

Two-dimensional (2D) materials, with unique electronic properties, superior optoelectronic properties, and dangling-bond-free surfaces, have attracted significant attention and experienced rapid development both in fundamental science and for practical applications. Amid the plethora of 2D materials, indium selenide (InSe) has emerged as a promising candidate for future high-mobility optoelectronic devices. Nobel Prize laureate Andre Geim even describes it as "the 'golden middle' between silicon and graphene". Over the past decade, remarkable findings and progress have been made in the fabrication of 2D InSe crystals and their application in devices, motivating us to delve deeply into these forefront developments. In this review, the physical properties such as the crystalline structure, band structure and photoluminescence characteristics are discussed at first. Then, the advancement in terms of synthesis techniques, characteristics and synthesis schemes in the fabrication of 2D InSe are summarized. Subsequently, the mechanisms of optimized strategy and recent progress in field effect transistors (FETs) as well as photodetectors based on this material are summarized, also highlighting the promising applications of 2D InSe in sensors. Finally, an outlook, challenges, and potential future research directions in the fabrication of 2D InSe and its devices are presented.

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The large, heavy passenger vehicles were responsible for over 20% of the growth in global energy-related CO2 emissions last year

SUVs accounted for 48% of global car sales in 2023, reaching a new record and further strengthening the defining automobile trend of the early 21 st century – the shift towards ever larger and heavier cars. There are various driving forces behind this trend, from the appeal of SUVs as a status symbol and their potential enhancements in comfort, to the marketing strategies of leading automakers. 

New car registrations by size and powertrain, 2010-2023

In advanced economies, SUV sales reached around 20 million last year, surpassing a market share of 50% for the first time. This preference for larger vehicles extends to emerging and developing economies, too, where the share of SUVs in total car sales mirrors this trend. Today, more than one in four cars on the road worldwide are SUVs, the majority of which are conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. While only 5% of SUVs currently on the road are electric, they account for a growing share of electric car sales. In 2023, more than 55% of new electric car registrations were SUVs. 

If SUVs were a country, they would be the world’s fifth largest emitter of CO2

SUVs weigh 200-300 kg more than an average medium-sized car, and typically take up nearly 0.3 m 2 more space – emitting roughly 20% more carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions. The trend towards heavier and less fuel-efficient cars increases energy demand, including oil and electricity use, as well as demand for basic metals and critical minerals needed for battery production. Over the course of 2022 and 2023, global oil consumption directly related to SUVs rose by a total of over 600 000 barrels per day, accounting for more than a quarter of the overall annual growth in oil demand. 

Combustion-related CO2 emissions from SUVs and the 10 highest-emitting countries, 2023

In 2023, there were more than 360 million SUVs on the roads worldwide, resulting in combustion-related CO 2 emissions of 1 billion tonnes, an increase of around 100 million tonnes from the previous year. This accounted for more than 20% of the growth in global energy-related CO 2 emissions last year. The annual increase in CO 2 emissions attributed to the rise of SUVs is equivalent to about half of the emissions growth stemming from the global electricity sector. Compared with smaller cars, SUVs are also associated with higher indirect emissions resulting from producing the materials used to manufacture them. If ranked among countries, the global fleet of SUVs would be the world’s fifth largest emitter of CO 2 , exceeding the emissions of Japan and various other major economies. 

Global electric vehicles fleet and sales of SUVs, 2023

Around 30 million SUVs with internal combustion engines were added to the global fleet in 2023, comparable to the total number of electric cars on the roads today. In 2023, there were 500 electric car models available worldwide, of which 60% fell under the SUV category, marking a significant increase from previous years. This trend is further reinforced as automakers plan to introduce a greater number of electrified SUV models in the near future.

Globally, SUVs now account for approximately 45% of the electric car fleet, a share that would be even higher were it not for the strong growth of small electric cars in urban areas in China. In advanced economies, the share of SUVs among electric cars is even higher at 55%. This is due to limited availability of smaller and more affordable compact models.

Despite advances in fuel efficiency and electrification, the trend toward heavier and less efficient vehicles such as SUVs, which emit roughly 20% more emissions than an average medium-sized car, has largely nullified the improvements in energy consumption and emissions achieved elsewhere in the world’s passenger car fleet in recent decades. Larger vehicles also pose challenges related to their increased use of critical minerals, as they are equipped with larger batteries. Additionally, they raise questions around pedestrian safety in constrained urban environments due to their higher front ends. On top of this, their greater parking space requirements, approximately 10% more than for medium-sized cars, can limit the use of valuable space in dense urban areas for other purposes.

To respond to some of these challenges, countries such as France, Norway, and Ireland have either established or are exploring legislative frameworks to reign in demand for SUVs. Major cities like Paris and Lyon are implementing higher parking charges specifically targeting SUVs in urban areas.

Shifting from fossil-fuelled cars to electric vehicles is a key strategy for reaching international energy and climate goals. However, measures such as rightsizing EV battery packs, tailoring fuel efficiency standards based on car size, and investing in innovative battery technologies with enhanced performance and durability, as well as lower material demand requirements, are also essential for a sustainable future. 

This analysis was supported by the work of IEA Energy Analysts Mathilde Huismans and Jules Sery.

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