Research Database Directory

Every research database, reviewed.

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Lens.org

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

Tier 2 Open AccessFreemium

Connected Papers

A visual map of a research field — find the papers around the one you already know.

Tier 3 ToolsFreemium

HathiTrust

A massive digital library of scanned books — the scholarly record, digitized.

Tier 3 Open AccessFreemium

Statista

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

Tier 1 CorporateFreemium

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