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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
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Online since
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Trackers
Prices
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Last price change
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Closest alternative
British Library

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01 · 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.

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Cookie banner
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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.

Fewer trackers than National Library of ScotlandNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

20 of the 60 sites closest to National Library of Scotland match.

  1. 01
    British Library bl.uk English 1 tracker

    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.

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  2. 02
    BnF bnf.fr Top 10K English No trackers

    Accueil | BnF – Site institutionnel

    .

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  3. 03
    Library of Congress loc.gov Top 1K English 1 tracker

    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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  4. 04
    KB kb.nl English No trackers

    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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  5. 05
    National Library of New Zealand natlib.govt.nz No trackers

    national library

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  6. 06
    DNB dnb.de German No trackers

    DNB - Startseite

    Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek ist die zentrale Archivbibliothek Deutschlands.

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  7. 07
    UK National Archives nationalarchives.gov.uk Top 10K English No trackers

    Welcome to The National Archives

    Explore 1,000 years of history with the official national archive of the UK Government.

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  8. 08
    National Records of Scotland nrscotland.gov.uk English 1 tracker

    National Records of Scotland (NRS)

    non-ministerial department of the Scottish Government

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  9. 09
    National Archives and Records Administration archives.gov Top 10K English 1 tracker

    National Archives | Home

    National Archives and Records Administration

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  10. 10
    legislation.gov.uk Top 10K 1 tracker

    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.

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  11. 11
    Internet Archive archive.org Top 1K English No trackers

    Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

    U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive

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  12. 12
    Europeana europeana.eu English 1 tracker

    Discover Europe’s digital cultural heritage | Europeana

    Search, save and share art, books, films and music from thousands of cultural institutions

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  13. 13
    ClinicalTrials.gov clinicaltrials.gov Top 10K English No trackers

    ClinicalTrials.gov

    United States government registry of clinical trials

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  14. 14
    www.gov.uk Top 1K English No trackers

    Welcome to GOV.UK

    GOV.UK - The best place to find government services and information.

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  15. 15
    British Geological Survey bgs.ac.uk English 1 tracker

    Welcome to BGS - British Geological Survey

    geological survey

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  16. 16
    United States Copyright Office copyright.gov Top 10K English 1 tracker

    U.S. Copyright Office | U.S. Copyright Office

    Copyright Office Homepage

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  17. 17
    OCLC oclc.org Top 10K English No trackers

    global library cooperative

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  18. 18
    Assemblée nationale assemblee-nationale.fr French 1 tracker

    Assemblée nationale ~ Les députés, le vote de la loi, le Parlement français

    Presentation de l'Assemblee nationale, du palais Bourbon, de ses membres (deputes), de son fonctionnement et de son actualite : agenda, travaux en cours (amendements, rapports, commissions, lois), textes et dossiers (legislatifs ou d'actualite)...

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  19. 19
    data.gov English 1 tracker

    Data.gov Home - Data.gov

    The home of the U.S. Government's open data

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  20. 20
    Crossref crossref.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Crossref

    Crossref is open infrastructure linking the world's research. 26,500 members, 171 countries, 2.1 billion monthly API queries.

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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

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 = 60
Sites searched
9,214
Vector
384-d
Query
41 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.

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EuropeanaInternet Archivelegislation.gov.ukNational Archives and Records AdministrationNational Records of ScotlandUK National ArchivesDNBKBLibrary of CongressBnF

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