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arXiv

arXiv (independent non-profit, formerly hosted by Cornell University) · Research dissemination

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

Open sourceFreeNov 2, 2026

Connected Papers

Connected Papers · Literature discovery & review

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

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidNov 2, 2026

Consensus

Consensus · Literature discovery & review

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

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidNov 2, 2026

Crossref

Crossref · Research dissemination

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

ProprietaryFreePaidNov 2, 2026

Elicit

Elicit · Literature discovery & review

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

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidNov 2, 2026

FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data)

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis · Market & fundamentals data

In-depth entry

Free economic database from the St. Louis Fed aggregating hundreds of thousands of US and international time series, with graphs, vintages (ALFRED), an Excel add-in and a keyed JSON/XML API

ProprietaryFreeNov 2, 2026

Google Scholar

Google (Chrome DevTools team) · Literature discovery & review

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

ProprietaryFreeNov 2, 2026

Hugging Face Hub

Hugging Face · Training & fine-tuning

In-depth entry

Hosting platform for open models, datasets and Spaces demo apps built on git repositories and Xet storage, with Inference Providers, Endpoints, Jobs and an open-source Python client and CLI

MixedFreemiumPaidLocalNov 2, 2026

IMF Data

International Monetary Fund · Open & public data

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

ProprietaryFreeNov 2, 2026

MATLAB

MathWorks · Mathematical & statistical computing

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

ProprietaryPaidAcademicLocalNov 2, 2026

Mendeley

Elsevier · Citation management

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

ProprietaryFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

OpenAlex

OurResearch · Literature discovery & review

In-depth entry

Open catalog of the global research system: works, authors, sources, institutions and topics under CC0, served by a REST API, web app and S3 snapshot

Open sourceFreeFreemiumBroken

ORCID

ORCID, Inc. · Research dissemination

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

Open sourceFreeEnterpriseNov 2, 2026

OSF (Open Science Framework)

Center for Open Science · Reproducibility & research software

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

Apache-2.0FreeSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Overleaf

Overleaf (Digital Science) · LaTeX & typesetting

In-depth entry

Collaborative online LaTeX editor with real-time co-editing, templates and reference-manager sync, available as a hosted service and an AGPL self-hosted edition

AGPL-3.0-onlyFreemiumPaidSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Paperpile

Paperpile LLC · Citation management

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

ProprietaryPaidAcademicNov 2, 2026

Project Jupyter

Project Jupyter (NumFOCUS) · Notebooks & interactive computing

In-depth entry

Open-source computational notebook ecosystem: the .ipynb format, kernels for Python, R and Julia, JupyterLab and Notebook interfaces and JupyterHub

BSD-3-ClauseOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

QuantConnect

QuantConnect Corporation · Financial analysis & investing

In-depth entry

Algorithmic trading platform built on the open-source LEAN engine, with cloud backtesting, research notebooks and brokerage-connected live trading

Apache-2.0FreemiumPaidLocalNov 2, 2026

RePEc

RePEc volunteers · Research dissemination

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

MixedFreeNov 2, 2026

ResearchRabbit

ResearchRabbit (Litmap Limited) · Literature discovery & review

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

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidNov 2, 2026

RStudio IDE

Posit Software, PBC · Mathematical & statistical computing

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

AGPL-3.0-onlyFreeOpen sourceLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

scite

Scite LLC (Research Solutions) · Literature discovery & review

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

ProprietaryFreemiumPaidNov 2, 2026

SEC EDGAR

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · SEC/EDGAR & corporate filings

In-depth entry

The SEC's free public filing system: company and full-text search, bulk index and feed archives, and data.sec.gov JSON APIs for submissions and XBRL financial facts, subject to a fair-access rate policy

ProprietaryFreeNov 2, 2026

Semantic Scholar

Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) · Literature discovery & review

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

ProprietaryFreeNov 2, 2026

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