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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

biblatex

Philip Kime and contributors · LaTeX & typesetting

LaTeX bibliography package that reimplements BibTeX formatting in LaTeX macros, with the Biber backend, Unicode sorting and multiple bibliographies

LPPL-1.3cFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 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

Eurostat

European Commission — Eurostat · Open & public data

Statistical office of the European Union publishing harmonised EU and member-state data through the Data Browser, bulk downloads and SDMX/JSON APIs

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

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

JabRef

JabRef e.V. and contributors · Citation management

Open-source, BibTeX/biblatex-native reference manager for LaTeX users with online fetchers, groups, file linking and editor integration

MITFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 2, 2026

Julia

The Julia Project · Programming languages & runtimes

Dynamically typed, JIT-compiled language for numerical and scientific computing that aims to combine high-level syntax with compiled-code speed

MITOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 2, 2026

Lean

Lean FRO · Mathematical & statistical computing

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

Apache-2.0FreeOpen sourceLocalNov 2, 2026

linearmodels

Kevin Sheppard · Econometrics & causal inference

Python package by Kevin Sheppard adding panel data, instrumental-variable, system (SUR/3SLS) and asset-pricing estimators missing from statsmodels

NCSAFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 2, 2026

Matplotlib

Matplotlib Development Team (NumFOCUS) · Data visualization

The foundational Python plotting library for static, publication-quality figures with full control over every element, exported to PDF, SVG, PNG and PGF

Open sourceOpen sourceFreeLocalNov 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

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

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

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

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

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

SymPy

SymPy Development Team · Mathematical & statistical computing

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

BSD-3-ClauseFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 2, 2026

TeXstudio

TeXstudio contributors · LaTeX & typesetting

Open-source desktop LaTeX editor with integrated PDF viewer, autocompletion, wizards, spell checking and a structure view for Windows, macOS and Linux

GPL-3.0-onlyFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 2, 2026

World Bank Open Data

World Bank Group · Open & public data

Free access to World Bank development indicators by country and year through a web portal, bulk downloads and a public REST API

ProprietaryFreeBroken

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