Research Database Directory

Every research database, reviewed.

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EconLit

The American Economic Association's index — the curated standard for economics literature.

Tier 2 AcademicSubscription

SpringerLink

Springer Nature's full-text library — journals, books, and lab protocols across the sciences.

Tier 2 CorporateSubscription

ERIC

The free, authoritative index for education research and practice.

Tier 2 Open AccessFree

PsycINFO

The American Psychological Association's index — the standard for psychology and behavioral science.

Tier 2 AcademicSubscription

Cochrane Library

The home of systematic reviews — the gold standard for evidence in healthcare.

Tier 2 AcademicSubscription

Embase

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

Tier 2 AcademicSubscription

CORE

The world's largest aggregator of open-access research — full text at scale.

Tier 2 Open AccessFree

Lens.org

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

Tier 2 Open AccessFreemium

Crossref

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

Tier 2 ToolsFree

JSTOR

The digital archive of the humanities and social sciences — deep back-runs of the journals that define a field.

Tier 2 AcademicSubscription