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ScienceDirect
Who runs ScienceDirect, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest academic publishing database alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Couldn’t check
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Taylor & Francis Online
Measured from ScienceDirect’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit ScienceDirect01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com
Wikidata: website providing subscription-based access to a database of scientific and medical research
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
02 · Privacy
What ScienceDirect tracks
We couldn’t read sciencedirect.com’s homepage (HTTP 403), so we can’t say what it loads.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to ScienceDirect
None of the 60 sites closest to ScienceDirect match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what ScienceDirect 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 and search numbers · 4 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,221
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 50 ms
Built with
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577176c0efae505-TXL
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX sciencedirect-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS elmo.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=HFLbkoXvVlFiyLnMm91Nto2Ywh56_e4VOrfGV…
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on sciencedirect.com 13/20
- Microsoft 365 13/20
- Cloudflare 8/20
- Atlassian · not on sciencedirect.com 8/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on sciencedirect.com 7/20
- GlobalSign 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS 6/20
- OneTrust · not on sciencedirect.com 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on sciencedirect.com 6/20
- Salesforce · not on sciencedirect.com 5/20
- Apple Business · not on sciencedirect.com 5/20
- Google Workspace · not on sciencedirect.com 4/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on sciencedirect.com 4/20
- OpenAI · not on sciencedirect.com 3/20
- Adobe · not on sciencedirect.com 3/20
- DocuSign · not on sciencedirect.com 3/20