LibGuides: Alternatives to Google Scholar and Web of Science: Home

New Alternatives -- for comprehensive searches and as citation index

Dimensions -- Try it now. free version
Requires setting up an account, for now.
We're looking at a subscription, so feedback very welcome. (wiswellj@appstate.edu)
Give feedback on Dimensions please -- short survey
Scopus -- Try it now.
Trial access -- February 19 -March 18, 2024.
Give feedback on Scopus -- short survey

These three and Dimensions are open. Free.

Try the publisher links for full text, but it those don't work, try

LibKey.io/ with the DOI number.

OpenAlex
January 2024 -- This has been in the works for a long time, and here it is. Please try it and let us know what you think. (wiswellj@appstate.edu)
Hey, the Sorbonne decided to go with this alone.
By Our Research, Initial funding from Arcadia.
The Lens
You can use the LibKey links to get full text. Except when the full text is neither open or one of our subscriptions, of course.
By Cambria, an Australian non-profit organization.
Semantic Scholar
Not so new, from 2015

Compare to APPsearch, Google Scholar, Web of Science, ProQuest Central, and PubMed.

Also, consider using as citation index, as alternative to Web Of Science (or Scopus, which we do not subscribe to).

One drawback -- We do not have these set up for (Find@ASU) linking to full text, except for the LibKey links in The Lens. You have to find full text on your own. Try our new LibKey.io/ with the DOI number.

and nothing finds everything.

AI-Based Alternatives to Web of Science and Google Scholar

Gen AI Product Tracker -- Ithaka S+R (JSTOR)

Gen AI products that we'll be looking at in 2024-2025

Review -- Keenious
Pastva, Joelen, Dom Jebbia, Maranda Reilly, and Ashley Werlinich. 2024. “The Implementation of Keenious at Carnegie Mellon University.” Journal of eScience Librarianship 13 (1). https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.800.
Review -- Scopus AI
Kubacka, Teresa. 2024. “Guest Post - There Is More to Reliable Chatbots than Providing Scientific References: The Case of ScopusAI.” The Scholarly Kitchen. February 21, 2024

Dimensions AI
Also look at using the CHat GPT interface to "search" Dimensions corpus. https://chat.openai.com/g/g-STAmDxyVG-dimensions-research-gpt
Elicit
Scite.ai

Library Guides

Alternatives to Google Scholar and Web of Science: Home

New Alternatives -- for comprehensive searches and as citation index

AI-Based Alternatives to Web of Science and Google Scholar

Health Sciences Librarian