Top ScienceDirect Alternatives

Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a search engine for scholarly literature, allowing users to find articles, theses, and books across various disciplines and sources.

Consensus

Consensus is an AI-driven academic search engine for accessing and summarizing over 200 million research papers to aid in scientific inquiry.

Research Rabbit

Research Rabbit helps researchers organize academic papers into collections, visualize connections between topics, and collaborate on literature reviews.

Elicit

Elicit is an AI research assistant that automates research workflows, finds relevant academic papers, and extracts key information for users.

PubMed

PubMed is an online database providing access to over 30 million citations for biomedical and life sciences literature, including links to full-text articles.

Connected Papers

Connected Papers is a visual tool that helps researchers find and explore academic papers related to their field using citation and reference mapping.

Scopus

Scopus is a comprehensive database for peer-reviewed literature across various fields, offering citation tracking and analytics tools for research evaluation.

scite.ai

Scite.ai helps researchers discover and understand scientific articles through Smart Citations that classify references as supporting or contrasting evidence.

Elicit

Elicit is an AI-powered research assistant that helps classify datasets, brainstorm research questions, and search literature effectively.

JSTOR

JSTOR is a digital library providing access to academic journals, books, and primary sources for research and education across multiple disciplines.

Wiley Online Library

Wiley Online Library app provides access to a large collection of academic journals, books, and research resources across various disciplines.

Paperguide

Paperguide is an AI-driven platform for managing research, offering search, analysis, writing, and reference management tools for academics.

Semantic Scholar

Semantic Scholar is an AI-powered academic search engine that helps researchers find and analyze scholarly articles across various fields.

Springer

The Springer app provides access to academic articles, books, and journals, supporting research and learning through a search function and content organization tools.

R Discovery

R Discovery is a free app for academics to find and read research papers, offering AI-generated article feeds, audio summaries, and translation features.

arXiv.org

arXiv.org is a free platform for sharing and accessing scholarly articles in various scientific fields, facilitating rapid dissemination and open access to research preprints.

Litmaps

Litmaps is a research tool that visualizes citation networks and connects academic studies, helping researchers discover trends and stay updated on new papers.

NASA/ADS

The NASA/ADS app provides access to over 15 million records of astronomical and physics literature, enabling efficient search, organization, and discovery of research materials.

ProQuest

ProQuest is a research platform providing access to a wide range of academic resources, including journals, newspapers, and databases for users in various fields.

ScholarAI

ScholarAI connects users to open-access, peer-reviewed scientific literature, facilitating efficient research and literature discovery.

CORE

CORE provides access to the largest collection of open access research papers from various disciplines.

EBSCO Information Services

EBSCO Information Services app provides access to a wide range of research databases, e-books, and journals for academic and public institutions, improving research efficiency.

NCBI

The NCBI app provides access to biomedical and life sciences literature, including citations, abstracts, and full-text articles for research and health information.

RefSeek

RefSeek is an academic search engine that helps students and researchers find scholarly articles, books, and journals across various disciplines.

Oxford Academic

The Oxford Academic app offers access to scholarly articles, journals, and books, facilitating research and academic exploration across various disciplines.