Dimensions
Digital Science's linked-data platform — the database that connects publications to the grants, patents, clinical trials, and policy documents around them.
Tier 1 AcademicFreemium
Every research database, reviewed.
RSRCHDB is an independent, opinionated directory of the databases and tools researchers actually use — from Web of Science and Scopus to OpenAlex, PubMed, and Zotero. For each one: an honest take, the at-a-glance facts, and the power tips most people miss.
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Featured databases
Europe PMC
The free life-sciences database that indexes preprints and peer-reviewed papers side by side.
Tier 1 Open AccessFree
OpenAlex
The fully open, CC0 index that set out to replace Scopus and Web of Science — bigger, free, and built for the Global South.
Tier 1 Open AccessFree
Scopus
Elsevier's abstract and citation database — the largest curated index of peer-reviewed literature.
Tier 1 AcademicSubscription
Statista
The statistics aggregator that puts a number on almost everything — if you read the footnotes.
Tier 1 CorporateFreemium
Web of Science
Clarivate's publisher-neutral citation index — six decades of curated, cover-to-cover indexing built around the citation as the unit of discovery.
Tier 1 AcademicSubscription
About RSRCHDB
Finding the right database is half the research battle — and the choices are overwhelming. RSRCHDB cuts through it. We profile each major research database and tool the way a seasoned analyst would brief a colleague: what it covers, what it costs, who it's really for, and the trade-offs the marketing pages won't mention.
Every profile follows the same format — an at-a-glance summary, our honest take, and the power tips that turn a casual search into a defensible one. We're publisher-neutral, we flag figures that need verifying, and we point you to free alternatives wherever they exist.
New profiles and a monthly newsletter featuring one or two databases plus the latest research-tools news are on the way.