GDatabases
Google Scholar
A broad scholarly search service for articles, theses, books, patents, and citation records across disciplines.
scholarly searchcitations
View entry RESEARCH CATEGORY
Literature Search & Discovery
Find papers, trace citations, and map research fields. The database currently includes 22 tools, models, databases, or infrastructure entries in this category.
SAI Tools
Semantic Scholar
A free research discovery service from Ai2 that supports paper search, citation exploration, and programmatic access.
research discoverycitation graph
View entry CAI Tools
Consensus
A research search service that retrieves evidence from scholarly papers and presents structured responses to research questions.
evidence searchresearch questions
View entry EAI Tools
Elicit
A research assistant for finding papers, extracting study information, and comparing evidence in structured tables.
paper searchevidence extraction
View entry CAI Tools
Connected Papers
A visual discovery tool that builds a graph of related research from a seed paper.
paper graphrelated work
View entry RAI Tools
ResearchRabbit
A literature discovery tool for exploring connections among papers, authors, and citation networks.
citation networkvisual discovery
View entry SAI Tools
scite
A citation analysis service that shows whether later papers support, mention, or contrast with a cited claim.
citation contextevidence assessment
View entry DDatabases
Dimensions
A linked research information platform covering publications, grants, patents, clinical trials, and policy documents.
research intelligencegrants
View entry TDatabases
The Lens
A search and analysis platform that connects scholarly works with patents and biological sequence information.
patentsscholarly search
View entry ODatabases
OpenAlex
An open catalog of scholarly works, authors, institutions, sources, topics, and their relationships.
open dataAPI
View entry PDatabases
PubMed
A free NLM service for searching biomedical and life-sciences citations and abstracts, with links to full text when available elsewhere.
biomedical literatureMeSH
View entry EDatabases
Europe PMC
A free life-sciences literature resource covering articles, preprints, and an open-access full-text collection, with programmatic services for reuse.
life sciences literatureopen access
View entry OAI Tools
Open Knowledge Maps
A visual discovery service that uses natural-language processing to group related research outputs into topical knowledge maps.
knowledge mapsvisual discovery
View entry CDatabases
Crossref Metadata Search
A free service for searching Crossref-registered metadata by title, author, publication, or DOI.
DOI metadatabibliographic search
View entry CDatabases
CORE
An open-access research aggregator indexing records from repositories, preprint servers, and journals, with search, available full text, and programmatic access.
open accessfull-text aggregation
View entry BDatabases
BASE
A multidisciplinary academic search service operated by Bielefeld University Library that aggregates metadata from repositories and other scholarly sources.
academic searchinstitutional repositories
View entry EDatabases
ERIC
A public education-research database supported by the U.S. Institute of Education Sciences, indexing journal and non-journal literature with full text for some records.
education researchliterature database
View entry DDatabases
dblp
An open computer-science bibliography covering publications, authors, journals, and conferences, with data downloads and search interfaces.
computer sciencebibliographic database
View entry ODatabases
OpenReview
An open scholarly-communication platform for submissions, peer review, author responses, and discussion, with configurable workflows and a database API.
peer reviewscholarly communication
View entry SDatabases
Scopus
An Elsevier abstract and citation database covering journals, conference papers, books, and preprints, with author, institution, and citation analysis.
citation databasebibliometrics
View entry WDatabases
Web of Science
A Clarivate research platform that provides bibliographic, citation, and research-impact data through Web of Science Core Collection and related databases.
citation databaseresearch impact
View entry EDatabases
Engineering Village
An Elsevier engineering-literature platform that provides institutionally licensed access to databases including Compendex, Inspec, and GEOBASE.
engineering literaturespecialist databases
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