Research Database Directory

Every research database, reviewed.

Mendeley

Elsevier's reference manager and academic network — capable, if you accept the ecosystem.

Tier 3 ToolsFree

The DOI backbone of scholarly publishing — metadata that ties the literature together.

Tier 2 ToolsFree

Scholarship and patents in one place — the open platform linking research to innovation.

Tier 2 Open AccessFreemium

Bielefeld Academic Search Engine — one of the largest indexes of the academic open web.

Tier 3 Open AccessFree

Elsevier's biomedical index — pharmacology-deep and built for systematic reviews.

Tier 2 AcademicSubscription

Elsevier's curated abstract and citation database — Web of Science's biggest rival, and broader in scope.

Tier 1 AcademicSubscription

The statistics portal that turns scattered market and survey data into citable charts — fast, broad, and secondary.

Tier 1 CorporateFreemium

The open, full-text gateway to biomedical and life-sciences literature — PubMed's more open cousin.

Tier 1 Open AccessFree

The veteran reference manager, deeply embedded in institutional workflows.

Tier 2 ToolsSubscription

The AI-native index that reads papers so you don't have to read all of them.

Tier 2 Open AccessFree