Can anyone recommend Google Scholar alternatives?
from Droggelbecher@lemmy.world to degoogle@lemmy.ml on 27 Feb 11:29
https://lemmy.world/post/26113659

I’m using DDG or searx for all my casual searching, but haven’t been able to find a good search engine for scholarly articles specifically. Scrolling through pages upon pages of forum posts and educational stuff for teens/kids is unfortunately too time consuming when I’m specifically looking for research papers. I’d also need to be filtering by year of publication since I need to know what’s currently going on in my field, not what was going on 30 years ago.

TIA!

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ptman@sopuli.xyz on 27 Feb 12:04 next collapse

Droggelbecher@lemmy.world on 27 Feb 14:25 collapse

Thank you so much!!

cabbage@piefed.social on 27 Feb 12:19 next collapse

Internet Archive Scholar is somewhat different, perhaps more archival and less up to date on the latest research, but it's pretty neat.

That said, Google Scholar is the only Google search I still default to. Haven't found a good alternative yet.

[deleted] on 27 Feb 12:36 next collapse

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Droggelbecher@lemmy.world on 27 Feb 14:26 collapse

That’s pretty helpful for when I need to look at older stuff, thank you!

fossilesque@mander.xyz on 27 Feb 12:24 next collapse

Excuse the sloppy copy paste from something I was working on. Note I’ve not checked the urls in some time and the descriptions were mostly automated.

Literary Search Engines

  • ⭐️BASE: One of the world’s most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access). BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.
  • CAS SCIFINDER: More than a literature and chemical compound database, CAS SciFindern leverages human curation to deliver relevant, actionable insights so you can innovate faster.
  • GET THE RESEARCH: Clean, simple academic search engine with an open access toggle. Leverages Open Access and AI to help nonspecialists find, read, and understand scholarly research.
  • FATCAT!: Fatcat is a versioned, publicly editable catalogue of research publications: journal articles, conference proceedings, pre-prints, blog posts, etc. The goal is to improve the state of preservation and access to these works by providing a manifest of full-text content versions and locations.
  • IEEE XPLORE: The IEEE Xplore digital library is a powerful resource for the discovery of scientific and technical content published by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and its publishing partners.
  • INSPIRE HEP: INSPIRE is a trusted community hub that helps researchers to share and find accurate scholarly information in high energy physics.
  • ⭐️INTERNET ARCHIVE SCHOLAR: This fulltext search index includes over 25 million research articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive. The collection spans from digitized copies of eighteenth-century journals through the latest Open Access conference proceedings and pre-prints crawled from the World Wide Web.
  • LENS: The Lens serves integrated scholarly and patent knowledge as a public good to inform science and technology-enabled problem-solving.
  • NIH ICITE: iCite is a tool to access a dashboard of bibliometrics for papers associated with a portfolio. Users type in a PubMed query or upload the PubMed IDs of articles of interest. iCite has three modules: Influence, Translation, and Open Citations.
  • ⭐️OPENALEX: FOSS catalog of the global research system featuring API access for developers.
  • PAPERSWITHCODE: The mission of Papers with Code is to create a free and open resource with Machine Learning papers, code, datasets, methods and evaluation tables.
  • The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System: The ADS maintains three bibliographic collections containing more than 15 million records covering publications in astronomy and astrophysics, physics, and general science, including all arXiv e-prints.
  • SCINAPSE: Our tool extracts valuable information such as related topics, companies, and patent data from each paper. Through our database, we provide a more comprehensive research experience.
  • ⭐️SEMANTIC SCHOLAR: A free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature.
  • ⭐️WEB OF SCIENCE: The Web of Science contains a remarkable treasure of data on scientific content, impact, and collaborations from 1900 to the present day on a global scale.
  • WORLDWIDESCIENCE: WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway—accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases and portals.

Literature Mapping

  • CITATION GECKO: Gecko helps you find the most relevant papers to your research and give you a more complete sense of the research landscape.
  • CODA: Use Coda, a machine-readable history of cooperation research, to search, select and visualize studies for on-demand meta-analysi
fossilesque@mander.xyz on 27 Feb 12:45 next collapse

PS: Crosspost to !academia@mander.xyz ;)

Crossposted to: mander.xyz/post/25651103

Droggelbecher@lemmy.world on 27 Feb 14:25 next collapse

This is soo much more than I could’ve ever asked for, thank you so much!

fossilesque@mander.xyz on 27 Feb 18:07 collapse

Additionally, the Academic/PDF search modes through kagi.com are goated. You get a few free searches per month.

Other honourable browser mentions worth having:

I have a giant list of resources I was working on, I will DM you it. Others can dm me too if they need it.

frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml on 27 Feb 14:42 collapse

Banging comment

fossilesque@mander.xyz on 27 Feb 17:54 collapse

Ty. Feel free to copy pasta far and wide.

Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works on 27 Feb 16:08 next collapse

Have you gone through the Searx settings? Specifically the Engines, and Default Categories.

Engines has things like Google Scholar, Arxiv, Pubmed, etc.

Default Categories, Science will show results from those things first.

Ephera@lemmy.ml on 27 Feb 21:19 collapse

I always used Arxiv.