Privacy-friendly alternatives to Crossref
The scholarly metadata infrastructure sites closest to Crossref, with the fewest trackers first: what each homepage loads before you accept cookies. Crossref itself loads 1 tracker.
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DataCite – Connecting Research, Advancing Knowledge - DataCite
international not-for-profit organization which aims to improve data citation
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ORCID
non-profit organization that issues ORCID Identifiers
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OpenAlex: The open catalog to the global research system
OpenAlex indexes half a billion scholarly works, with their authors, institutions, sources and topics, and makes them free to search, analyze and reuse through our web app, API and bulk download.
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Handle.Net Registry
Handle.Net Registry is a DONA MPA.
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Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
ICANN’s mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet.
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w3id.org - Permanent Identifiers for the Web
Secure, permanent URLs for your Web application that will stand the test of time.
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Making sure you're not a bot!
French research institution in computer science
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global library cooperative
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Open Source Cloud Computing Infrastructure - OpenStack
Deployed by thousands. Proven production at scale. OpenStack is a set of software components that provide common services for cloud infrastructure.
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Liberapay
We help you fund the creators and projects you appreciate.
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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive
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ClinicalTrials.gov
United States government registry of clinical trials
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United States Patent and Trademark Office
Home page of the United States Patent and Trademark Office's main web site.
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Home | Grants.gov
USA federal website
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SURF is the collaborative organisation for IT in Dutch education and research | SURF.nl
More than 100 education and research institutions in the Netherlands work together in the SURF cooperative to fully utilise the opportunities of digitalisation. Our goal: improved and more flexible education and research.
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Home - DFN
German association for academic research
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Privacy Guides
Established in 2021, Privacy Guides is the largest impartial, non-profit media outlet focused on finding privacy tools and learning about protecting your digital life.
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Fight for the Future
Who are we? We are a group of artists, engineers, activists, and technologists who have been behind the largest online protests in human history, channeling Internet outrage into political power to win public interest victories previously thought to be impossible. We fight for a future where technology is a force for liberation— not oppression. Battle […]
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Wikimedia
The Wikimedia movement is a global community of people, projects, and activities working together to create and share knowledge freely.
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