Privacy-friendly alternatives to Semantic Scholar
The academic search engine sites closest to Semantic Scholar, with the fewest trackers first: what each homepage loads before you accept cookies. Semantic Scholar itself loads 3 trackers.
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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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Google
search engine by Google LLC
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RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
RePEc is a central index of economics research, including working papers, articles and software code
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Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
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Client Challenge
non-profit educational organization
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Making sure you're not a bot!
legal database
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Search the CPAN - metacpan.org
open source search engine for the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN)
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Home | LibreTexts
open access educational resource collection
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Frontiers | Publisher of peer-reviewed articles in open access journals
Open access publisher of peer-reviewed scientific articles across the entire spectrum of academia. Research network for academics to stay up-to-date with the latest scientific publications, events, blogs and news.
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peer-reviewed open-access journal
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ORCID
non-profit organization that issues ORCID Identifiers
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Wikibooks
free multilingual online collection of textbooks
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Welcome | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
Welcome to the IZA@LISER Network website
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site news
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Wikidata
free multilingual online knowledge graph
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OpenStax
OpenStax offers free college textbooks for all types of students, making education accessible & affordable for everyone. Browse our list of available subjects!
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Docs.rs
official documentation website for Rust libraries
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Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
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The Lens - Patent and Scholarly Search and Analysis
The Lens serves all the patents and scholarly work in the world as an open and secure digital public good, with user privacy a paramount focus.
Uses visitor analytics, third-party embeds. Compare with Semantic Scholar →
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arXiv.org e-Print archive
online digital archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers
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