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OpenAlex vs ScienceDirect

Who’s behind each, what their homepages track, what they cost and how often their policies changed, measured the same way for both. By what they offer, they’re very close.

OpenAlex

OpenAlex is a free, open bibliographic database that indexes scholarly works along with their authors, institutions, journals and topics. It can be searched through a web app, an API and bulk data downloads.

ScienceDirect

ScienceDirect is Elsevier's online database of peer-reviewed scientific, technical and medical journal articles and book chapters, offering full-text access by subscription, institutional license or per-article purchase, plus open access content.

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Smaller site
Top 1K
Trackers on the homepage
  • Third-party embeds: Google Fonts
  • Privacy-friendly analytics: Plausible
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Trackers are what each homepage loads before cookie consent; changes count since we started checking each site weekly. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.