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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

fixest

Laurent Bergé · Econometrics & causal inference

In-depth entry

R package for fast estimation of OLS, GLM, Poisson, IV and difference-in-differences models with many fixed effects, clustered errors, multiple estimations and publication tables

GPL-3.0-onlyFreeOpen sourceLocalNov 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

Git

Git project (Software Freedom Conservancy) · Version control & code hosting

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Distributed version control system that records snapshots of a project's history locally and synchronizes them with remotes such as GitHub, GitLab or a bare repository over SSH

GPL-2.0-onlyOpen sourceFreeLocalSelf-hostedNov 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

Obsidian

Dynalist Inc. (Obsidian) · Personal knowledge management

In-depth entry

Local-first Markdown note-taking app with bidirectional links, graph view and a large community plugin ecosystem; optional paid Sync and Publish

ProprietaryFreePaidLocalBroken

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

Pandoc

John MacFarlane · LaTeX & typesetting

In-depth entry

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

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

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

Python

Python Software Foundation · Programming languages & runtimes

In-depth entry

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

QuantLib

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

In-depth entry

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

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