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Free, moderated open-access preprint server for physics, mathematics, computer science, statistics, quantitative finance, economics and related fields, with an open API and bulk access

Visual literature-exploration tool that builds a similarity graph of papers around a seed paper, with prior and derivative works lists

AI search engine over peer-reviewed literature that synthesizes answers, shows a Consensus Meter for yes/no questions and summarizes studies

Membership organization that registers DOIs for scholarly content and exposes the metadata through a free public REST API, content negotiation and the paid Metadata Plus service

AI research assistant that finds papers, extracts structured data from them into tables and runs systematic-review style workflows and reports

Free scholarly search engine from Google that indexes articles, theses, books and court opinions with citation counts and author profiles

The IMF's statistical portal for World Economic Outlook, fiscal, balance-of-payments, reserves and price datasets with SDMX 2.1 and 3.0 APIs

Open-source functional programming language and interactive theorem prover with dependent types, the Mathlib mathematics library and VS Code tooling, stewarded by the Lean FRO

Market data platform (renamed from Polygon.io in October 2025) with REST and WebSocket APIs, flat files and SQL access for US stocks, options, indices, forex, crypto and futures

MathWorks' commercial numeric computing environment and language for engineers and scientists, with toolboxes, Simulink integration, apps and MATLAB Online

Free reference manager from Elsevier with a desktop and web app, PDF annotation, a Web Importer, groups and bundled cloud storage

Nasdaq's marketplace for financial, economic and alternative datasets (formerly Quandl) with a REST API, time-series and table endpoints and Python, R and Excel clients

Free API and web tool from Bloomberg for mapping tickers, ISINs, CUSIPs and other identifiers to public-domain FIGI instrument identifiers, with search and filter endpoints

Non-profit registry of persistent researcher identifiers (ORCID iDs) with user-controlled records, Public and Member APIs, OAuth sign-in and an annual CC0 public data file

Free, open-source research management platform from the Center for Open Science for projects, preregistrations, registries, preprint services and linking outputs across storage providers

Subscription reference manager that lives in the browser and Google Drive, with citation plugins for Google Docs and Word and mobile apps

Volunteer-run decentralized bibliographic database of economics research, fed by institutional archives and served through IDEAS, EconPapers, the Author Service, CitEc, NEP and MPRA

Literature-discovery app that grows collections of papers through citation and author networks and recommends related work, with a free-forever tier

Posit's open-source integrated development environment for R, with console, editor, plots, environment panes, Quarto/R Markdown authoring and Python via reticulate

Citation-analysis platform whose Smart Citations show whether later papers support, contrast or merely mention a claim, with an AI assistant and reference checking

Free AI-assisted literature search from Ai2 with an Academic Graph API, recommendations and downloadable datasets of papers, authors and citations

Elsevier-owned preprint and working-paper platform with discipline networks, author pages, download rankings and institutional research paper series, free to post and read

Pure-Python computer algebra system for symbolic algebra, calculus, equation solving, matrices, physics modules, code generation and LaTeX output

Wolfram Research's proprietary technical computing system built on the Wolfram Language, with notebooks, symbolic and numeric computation, visualization, machine learning and curated data