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OpenAlex

OurResearch · Literature discovery & review

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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

OpenFIGI

Bloomberg L.P. (FIGI Registration Authority) · Market & fundamentals data

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

ProprietaryFreeNov 2, 2026

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

pandas

pandas development team (NumFOCUS) · DataFrames & array computing

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The standard Python DataFrame library for labeled tabular data, time series and I/O to CSV, Excel, SQL, Parquet and more

BSD-3-ClauseOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Pandoc

John MacFarlane · LaTeX & typesetting

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Universal document converter that translates between Markdown, LaTeX, HTML, DOCX, EPUB, Typst, Jupyter and dozens of other formats, with citeproc and Lua filters

GPL-2.0-or-laterFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 2, 2026

Polars

Polars (Ritchie Vink and contributors) · DataFrames & array computing

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Rust-based DataFrame library with Python, Rust, Node and R bindings offering lazy query optimization, multithreading and Arrow-native memory

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Positron

Posit Software, PBC · Mathematical & statistical computing

Posit's multi-language data-science IDE built on Code OSS, with first-class R and Python consoles, variables and plots panes, under the Elastic License 2.0

Elastic-2.0FreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Project Jupyter

Project Jupyter (NumFOCUS) · Notebooks & interactive computing

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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

Python

Python Software Foundation · Programming languages & runtimes

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General-purpose, dynamically typed programming language with a large standard library and the dominant ecosystem for data science and machine learning

PSF-2.0Open sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedBroken

PyTorch

PyTorch Foundation (Linux Foundation) · Training & fine-tuning

Open-source deep-learning framework with eager tensors, autograd, torch.compile and distributed training, governed by the PyTorch Foundation and the base of most LLM tooling

BSD-3-ClauseOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedBroken

QuantLib

QuantLib project (Luigi Ballabio and contributors) · Financial analysis & investing

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Open-source C++ library for quantitative finance covering instruments, term structures, pricing engines and calendars, with Python and other bindings

BSD-3-ClauseOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

Quarto

Posit Software, PBC · Academic writing & publishing

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Open-source scientific publishing system from Posit that renders Markdown with executable Python, R, Julia or Observable code to HTML, PDF, Word, slides, websites and books via Pandoc

MITFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 2, 2026

R

R Foundation / R Core Team · Programming languages & runtimes

Language and environment for statistical computing and graphics, with the CRAN package archive and a strong base in academic statistics and econometrics

GPL-2.0-or-laterOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

R Markdown

Posit Software, PBC · Academic writing & publishing

R package that turns Markdown documents with embedded R (and Python or SQL) chunks into HTML, PDF, Word, slides, books and dashboards through knitr and Pandoc

MITFreeOpen sourceLocalMaintenanceBroken

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

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

scikit-learn

scikit-learn developers · Mathematical & statistical computing

BSD-licensed Python machine-learning library for classification, regression, clustering, dimensionality reduction, preprocessing and model selection on NumPy and SciPy

BSD-3-ClauseFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 2, 2026

SciPy

SciPy developers (NumFOCUS) · Mathematical & statistical computing

Core open-source Python library for scientific computing on NumPy arrays: optimization, integration, interpolation, linear algebra, sparse matrices, statistics, signal processing

BSD-3-ClauseFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 2, 2026

SEC EDGAR

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

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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

Sphinx

Sphinx team · Documentation tooling

Python documentation generator using reStructuredText or MyST Markdown with cross-referencing, API autodoc and output to HTML, PDF via LaTeX, ePub and man pages

BSD-2-ClauseOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 2, 2026

SSRN

Elsevier · Research dissemination

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

ProprietaryFreeEnterpriseNov 2, 2026

Statistics Canada

Statistics Canada (Government of Canada) · Open & public data

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Canada's national statistical agency publishing census, economic and social data tables with open licensing and programmatic access via Web Data Service

ProprietaryFreeNov 2, 2026

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