Research Database Directory

Every research database, reviewed.

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DistillerSR

Enterprise-grade systematic review automation — for audit-heavy evidence work.

Tier 3 ToolsSubscription

Citavi

Reference management plus knowledge organization — think, then write.

Tier 3 ToolsFreemium

DOAB

The Directory of Open Access Books — DOAJ's counterpart for scholarly monographs.

Tier 3 Open AccessFree

LILACS

Latin American and Caribbean health literature — the regional index PubMed misses.

Tier 3 Open AccessFree

DataCite

DOIs for data — the identifier registry that makes datasets citable.

Tier 3 ToolsFree

ROR

A persistent ID for every research organization — ORCID for institutions.

Tier 3 ToolsFree

PubPeer

Post-publication peer review — where the community flags what the journals missed.

Tier 3 ToolsFree

Overton

The policy-document database — see where research shows up in government.

Tier 3 CorporateSubscription

Sciety

Preprint evaluations in one place — see which preprints experts have vetted.

Tier 3 ToolsFree

Internet Archive Scholar

Full-text search of the preserved scholarly record — including the hard-to-find.

Tier 3 Open AccessFree