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National Library of Scotland
Who runs National Library of Scotland, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest national library alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
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- Closest alternative
- British Library
Measured from National Library of Scotland’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit National Library of Scotland01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland nls.uk
Learn about who we are and what we do at the National Library of Scotland. Read stories, donate, request an item, or find out how to research our collections.
Wikidata: legal deposit library of Scotland
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What National Library of Scotland tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
13 of the 14 alternatives below have fewer, 0 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 2 tools
Marketing and email tracking
Links visits to email campaigns and customer profiles.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to National Library of Scotland
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to National Library of Scotland, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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The British Library - the national Library of the UK
Visit the national library of the UK. Explore our buildings, study, meet friends, attend an event and get free access to over 170 million items. Join us.
Very close - 02
Home | National Library of Australia (NLA)
national reference library in Canberra, Australia
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Accueil | BnF – Site institutionnel
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Home | Library of Congress
The world's largest library. View historic photos, maps, books and more. Contact experts for help with research. Plan a visit. Home of U.S. Copyright Office.
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KB, National Library of the Netherlands
View the digital, printed and written heritage collections of the Netherlands: manuscripts, catalogues, digital literacy services, books, magazines, newspapers and maps.
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national library
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DNB - Startseite
Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek ist die zentrale Archivbibliothek Deutschlands.
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library in Spain
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Welcome to The National Archives
Explore 1,000 years of history with the official national archive of the UK Government.
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National Records of Scotland (NRS)
non-ministerial department of the Scottish Government
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National Archives | Home
National Archives and Records Administration
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American aggregation platform providing open access to digital collections from libraries, archives, and museums.
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Legislation.gov.uk
The official home of UK legislation, revised and as enacted 1267-present. This website is managed by The National Archives on behalf of HM Government. Publishing all UK legislation is a core part of the remit of His Majesty’s Stationery Office (HMSO), part of The National Archives, and the Office of the King's Printer for Scotland.
Very close - 14
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive
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Discover Europe’s digital cultural heritage | Europeana
Search, save and share art, books, films and music from thousands of cultural institutions
Close - 16 National Archives of Australia naa.gov.au
national archives of Australia
Close - 17 Parliament of the United Kingdom parliament.uk
supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom
Close - 18 NHS Inform nhsinform.scot
Scotland's national health information service
Close - 19 British Museum britishmuseum.org
national museum in London, United Kingdom
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ClinicalTrials.gov
United States government registry of clinical trials
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles National Library of Scotland’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones National Library of Scotland uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what National Library of Scotland adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 6 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 51 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to National Library of Scotland’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 ip4:193.130.15.157 ip4:52.156.253.32/28 include:spf.mailanyone…
- CDN
- Azure Front Door header x-azure-ref: 20261108T211435Z-17d4d8f98c5frsnnhC1BERzre00000001h70000000…
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT v=spf1 ip4:193.130.15.157 ip4:52.156.253.32/28 include:spf.mailanyone…
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=V8UEL8bLbsCAxuMkro1T03iUFPuqDLFOOeIsmGU…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=lPDczaotA_nCqOljFrEl2ukxtX9pTCGLdEkvcp9z27s
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Microsoft 365 14/20
- Atlassian 8/20
- Cloudflare · not on nls.uk 7/20
- jQuery · not on nls.uk 6/20
- Adobe · not on nls.uk 5/20
- Apple Business · not on nls.uk 5/20
- Google Fonts · not on nls.uk 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on nls.uk 5/20
- Google Tag Manager 4/20
- jsDelivr · not on nls.uk 4/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on nls.uk 4/20
- Drupal · not on nls.uk 3/20
- PHP · not on nls.uk 3/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on nls.uk 3/20
- Bootstrap · not on nls.uk 3/20