RESEARCH DATABASES

Research databases

Databases and data resources for scholarly literature, citations, life science, chemistry, materials research, and related scientific domains. The database currently includes 23 entries in this section.

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Google Scholar

A broad scholarly search service for articles, theses, books, patents, and citation records across disciplines.

Literature Search & DiscoveryFree
scholarly searchcitations
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Dimensions

A linked research information platform covering publications, grants, patents, clinical trials, and policy documents.

Literature Search & DiscoveryFreemium
research intelligencegrants
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The Lens

A search and analysis platform that connects scholarly works with patents and biological sequence information.

Literature Search & DiscoveryFree
patentsscholarly search
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OpenAlex

An open catalog of scholarly works, authors, institutions, sources, topics, and their relationships.

Literature Search & DiscoveryOpen sourceOpen source
open dataAPI
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Materials Project

An open resource of computed materials data with web and API tools for exploring structures and predicted properties.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceFreeOpen source
materials databasecomputed properties
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PubChem

An open chemical information resource from NCBI covering compounds, substances, identifiers, properties, and biological activities.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceFree
chemical databasecompounds
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ChEMBL

An open EMBL-EBI database of curated bioactivity data for drug-like molecules and their biological targets.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceFreeOpen source
bioactivitydrug data
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CAS SciFinder

A commercial research platform for searching chemical substances, reactions, literature, and supplier information.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceContact for pricing
chemical searchreactions
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NOMAD

An open materials-science platform for storing, normalizing, searching, and analyzing computational research data.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceFreeOpen source
materials dataresearch infrastructure
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AFLOW

A research platform providing high-throughput computational materials data, crystal prototypes, and programmatic search interfaces.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceFree
high-throughput computingmaterials database
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Ensembl

An open research resource providing vertebrate genomes, gene annotation, comparative genomics, and variation data through browsers and programmatic interfaces.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
genome databasegene annotation
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UniProt

A public knowledgebase that integrates protein sequences, functional information, and cross-references, with both reviewed and computationally annotated records.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchFree
protein databasefunctional annotation
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InterPro

A public resource that integrates protein signatures from member databases to classify families and identify domains and functional sites.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchFree
protein familiesdomains
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Therapeutics Data Commons

An open research resource and Python package providing therapeutic machine-learning tasks, datasets, evaluation functions, benchmarks, and leaderboards.

Biology & Biomedical ResearchOpen sourceOpen source
therapeutic dataML benchmarks
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OQMD

An open quantum-materials database of structures, formation energies, and stability data derived from density-functional-theory calculations.

Chemistry & Materials ScienceFree
materials databaseDFT
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PubMed

A free NLM service for searching biomedical and life-sciences citations and abstracts, with links to full text when available elsewhere.

Literature Search & DiscoveryFree
biomedical literatureMeSH
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Europe PMC

A free life-sciences literature resource covering articles, preprints, and an open-access full-text collection, with programmatic services for reuse.

Literature Search & DiscoveryFree
life sciences literatureopen access
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Crossref Metadata Search

A free service for searching Crossref-registered metadata by title, author, publication, or DOI.

Literature Search & DiscoveryFree
DOI metadatabibliographic search
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CORE

An open-access research aggregator indexing records from repositories, preprint servers, and journals, with search, available full text, and programmatic access.

Literature Search & DiscoveryFreemium
open accessfull-text aggregation
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BASE

A multidisciplinary academic search service operated by Bielefeld University Library that aggregates metadata from repositories and other scholarly sources.

Literature Search & DiscoveryFree
academic searchinstitutional repositories
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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.

Literature Search & DiscoveryFree
education researchliterature database
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dblp

An open computer-science bibliography covering publications, authors, journals, and conferences, with data downloads and search interfaces.

Literature Search & DiscoveryFree
computer sciencebibliographic database
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OpenReview

An open scholarly-communication platform for submissions, peer review, author responses, and discussion, with configurable workflows and a database API.

Literature Search & DiscoveryFreeOpen source
peer reviewscholarly communication
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