Saya biasa menggunakan mesin pencari google atau yahoo. Mesin pencari(Search engine) ini bersifat umum. Bagai para peneliti, mahasiswa, dosen dan civitas akademika berikut ini mesin pencari untuk paper-paper dan hasil penelitian :

1. http://scholar.google.com
2. http://nsdl.org/
3. http://dspace.mit.edu/
4. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/
5. http://www.scirus.com/
6. http://arxiv.org/
7. http://ask.lub.lu.se/
8. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/
9. http://www.ndltd.org/
10.http://www.diva-portal.org/
11.http://etd.gsu.edu/
12.http://etd.uwaterloo.ca/etd/
13.http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/
14.http://wotan.liu.edu/docis/
15.http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/
16.http://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/
17.http://multimedia.ece.uic.edu/publication.html
18.http://research.microsoft.com/
19.http://lu-research.lub.lu.se/medsrch.html
20.http://www.freepatentsonline.com/
21.http://dbpubs.stanford.edu:8091/WP/WWW/search-form.shtml
22.http://search3.computer.org/search/advancedSearch.jsp
23.http://www.cs.umass.edu/~mccallum/publications-by-date.html
24.http://www.biomedcentral.com/
25.http://oro.open.ac.uk/
26.http://www.vascoda.de/ (bahasa jerman)

Ebook dan bahan kuliah :
1. http://www.freetechbooks.com/index.php
2. http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
3. http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/
4. http://faculty.etsu.edu/tarnoff/
5. http://www.gigapedia.com/

Semoga bermanfaat.