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Boasts over 500,000 researchers, academics who post material. This builds on collective intelligence (CI) principles of research. I'd like to see a demo and gain limited access without signing up (yet).

Another great resource for academic research.

Started at MIT, this site opens university lectures to those outside the classes on a wide range of subjects; online courses and academic video lectures across disciplines

Another Academic resource cornucopia.

A modified Google search engine that just searches within academic resources. This way one can avoid pulling up links to non-scholastic sources (like online discussions bereft of supporting data).

If you cannot get access to the article, try consulting the MCC librarian on an interlibrary loan.

Valued resource for academic articles; valuable to try secondary and tertiary research.

Wikipedia can be a good starting place for research. As a collection of user knowledge it can sometimes be woefully inadequate but often  the references in the footnotes can lead to more academic sources on a topic.

This is a report written by Douglas Baker, Nicole Buoni, Michael Fee, and Caroline Vitale... It ahs lots of secondary sources I can use to look up more information on the social networking impact on employees and business.

Some of the most cutting-edge academic research is sponsored by this organization.