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Alternatives · 2026

The best FSTA alternatives

The rest of Best Academic Research Databases, in this site's order: each with what it costs, where it runs and its record score.

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JSTOR

JSTOR suits students, educators, librarians, and researchers seeking multidisciplinary scholarly material for research, teaching, or learning.

AndroidiPhone & iPadWeb $199 a year Record5.7 Visit
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OpenAlex

It suits researchers and developers who need to search or work with scholarly records through an API, downloadable snapshot, or exports.

WebLinuxBrowser extension+2 $5,000 a year Record5.7 Visit
3
HeinOnline

HeinOnline suits colleges, law schools, libraries, courts, firms, agencies, high schools, and individual researchers.

AndroidiPhone & iPadWeb Free plan Record5.6 Visit
4
Academia.edu

It suits researchers and academics who want to share work, discover papers or track readership and profile activity.

AndroidiPhone & iPadWeb $1 one-time Record5.5 Visit
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CORE

CORE supports researchers and the general public looking for scholarly literature, as well as developers and institutions working with research data…

WebBrowser extensionAPI+1 Free plan Record5.5 Visit
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The Lens

The Lens suits researchers, inventors and analysts who need to search across scholarly literature and patent records.

WebAPI $1,000 a year Record5.5 Visit
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Project MUSE

Project MUSE suits readers seeking scholarly books and journals in the humanities and social sciences, as well as libraries arranging institutional…

AndroidiPhone & iPadWeb+1 — Record5.2 Visit
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MAXQDA

It suits researchers working with qualitative or mixed methods data, including interviews, questionnaires, and focus groups.

WebWindowsMac+1 $41 a month Record5.0 Visit
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Web of Science

It suits researchers, universities, research institutions, governments, funders, publishers, and research-intensive corporations.

AndroidiPhone & iPadWeb+1 Free plan Record5.0 Visit
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EconLit

EconLit is suited to economics scholars and researchers seeking literature across journals, books, dissertations, working papers, and other listed…

Web Free plan Record4.8 Visit
11 Web $169 a year Record4.7 Visit
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Academic Search Ultimate

It suits students and other scholarly researchers looking across disciplines and source types.

AndroidiPhone & iPadWeb — Record4.5 Visit
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arXiv

It suits readers seeking scholarly articles across multiple disciplines, along with registered authors who want to submit work without a submission…

WebAPI Free plan Record4.5 Visit
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bioRxiv

bioRxiv suits life science researchers who want to share findings and receive feedback before journal submission.

WebAPI Free plan Record4.5 Visit
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Europe PMC

It suits researchers, curators and librarians seeking life sciences publications and related tools.

WebAPI Free plan Record4.5 Visit
16 Web Free plan Record4.5 Visit
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medRxiv

It suits researchers sharing eligible health-science manuscripts and readers seeking freely accessible preprints.

WebAPI Free plan Record4.5 Visit
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PubMed

PubMed suits people searching biomedical and life sciences literature, including users who need citation records, abstracts, search filters, or…

WebAPI Free plan Record4.5 Visit
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zbMATH Open

zbMATH Open is designed for mathematicians in research and teaching who need literature, author, journal, formula, or software discovery.

WebAPI Free plan Record4.5 Visit
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AGRICOLA

It suits readers searching for agricultural and allied literature, including journal articles, proceedings, and theses.

Web Free plan Record4.4 Visit
21 WebAPI Free plan Record4.3 Visit
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SSRN

SSRN suits readers seeking multidisciplinary early research and authors ready to submit PDF papers through a free account.

Web Free plan Record4.3 Visit
23 WebAPI Free plan Record4.1 Visit
24 Web — Record3.8 Visit