Alternative search engines and databases to find more diverse literature

Finding authors from groups underrepresented in academia: examples of professional organizations, databases and special (research) collections

• African Education Research Database (a curated collection of research undertaken in the past decade by scholars based in sub-Saharan Africa in the field of Social Science)
• African Studies Centre Leiden (the only multidisciplinary academic knowledge institute in the Netherlands devoted entirely to the study of Africa)
• American Political Science Association Latino Caucus (Latina/o persons connected with the discipline of political science and those directly interested in the purposes of the Latino Caucus)
• Asian Pacific American Caucus (a group of political scientists and activists who identify as Asian Pacific American and/or study Asian Pacific Americans)
• Asociación Latinoamericana de Sociología (brings together sociologists or social scientists dedicated to research, teaching, and disseminating scientific knowledge on the social, economic, political, and cultural realities of Latin America)
• Atria: Institute on gender equality and women's history
• IHLIA LGBT Heritage
• Library of Africa and the African Diaspora (LOATAD’s focus is on books by writers of African descent including African, African American, Caribbean, Black European, Afro-Latin, and Indigenous writers)
• Women Also Know Stuff (database for searching women experts in Political Science)
• Women in Conflict Studies (scholarly association of women who engage in research on international conflict and cooperation)

Databases that help find publications from the 'Global South'

• African Journals Online
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• Directory of Open Access Books
• HAPI online: Hispanic American Periodicals Index (subscription only - check whether your institution provides access)
• LILACS: Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information (scientific health information from Latin America and the Caribbean countries)
• Redalyc (multidisciplinary database for Latin American research, focused on Diamond Open Access publications)
• Scielo (multidisciplinary Latin American database)

Lists with more alternative databases from other institutions

• Finding research from underrepresented voices, University of Leeds
• Sourcing of diverse material, University of Kent

Grey literature

For tips on how to find grey literature (e.g. organization reports, government documents, working papers etc.) please visit the blog post Grey literature: A tentative overview of (mostly) open access resources from the blog series Inclusive searches & sources @FMG Library from the UvA Library.