Open Source Google Scholar AlternativesAcademic Research Tools and other similar apps like Google Scholar

The best open source alternative to Google Scholar is AcademiaOS. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Google Scholar and four of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Google Scholar are Arxiv Sanity Preserver, Wispar and Snowball.

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  1. AcademiaOS icon
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    Find Academic Papers: Building on the SemanticScholar corpus and OpenAI embeddings, AcademiaOS finds and ranks relevant papers to your search queries.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  2. This project is a web interface that attempts to tame the overwhelming flood of papers on Arxiv. It allows researchers to keep track of recent papers, search for papers, sort papers by similarity to any paper, see recent popular papers, to add papers to a personal library, and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  3. Wispar icon
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    Wispar is a user-friendly and privacy-friendly Android, iOS, Windows, macOS and Linux app that seamlessly searches scientific journals and articles using the Crossref and OpenAlex API. Stay updated on your preferred journals by following them and receive new article abstracts in...

    5 Wispar alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • F-Droid
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  4. Snowball icon
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    Snowball lets you quickly find and filter through papers using the snowballing method. Start with a core collection of papers, and find more by going through their citations and references.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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