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24 alternatives to A new take on academic search
Scholr.ly is an academic search tool that helps researchers find scholarly papers and articles. It serves students, academics, and anyone conducting research who needs to locate peer-reviewed content efficiently. The… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A new take on academic search launched in 2013; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Paperguide▲645Discover, read, write and manage research with ease using AI
2024 · paperguide.ai · its alternatives →
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Academic webpage of Anders Damsgaard
2019 · adamsgaard.dk · its alternatives →
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2017 · arxiv-vanity.com · its alternatives →
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I built an AI-powered research agent designed to efficiently discover, summarize, and cite relevant academic papers based on user queries. As a university student, I've written my share of essays and have also served as a copy editor for our student newspaper. During fact-checking, I noticed that Google often prioritizes unreliable and unscholarly resources—such as Medium articles, Reddit posts, and LinkedIn content—in its top results over scholarly ones. For instance, searching "Transformers" yields six blogs and articles before finally listing the Vaswani (2017) paper. This makes gathering…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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OpenScholarXIV is an open-source, aesthetic, minimal and AI powered app that allows users to search, read, bookmark, share, download and view summaries of academic papers from the arXiv repository. - ScholarXIV/OpenScholarXIV
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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As a grad student (and an ADHDer), I had trouble doing literature review systematically. To combat this, I made a website that finds similar papers using the meaning of the thing I am looking for. I used MixedBread's [^1] embedding model to generate vectors from the abstracts. I store and search similar vectors using Milvus [^2] and finally use Gradio [^3] to serve the frontend. I update the vector database weekly by pulling the metadata dataset from Kaggle [^4]. To speed up the search process on my free oracle instance, I binarise the embeddings and use Hamming distance as a metric. I would…
2024 · papermatch.mitanshu.tech · its alternatives →
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Scholix▲3AI peer review for your research paper — before you submit
Jun 2026 · scholix.net · its alternatives →
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The intelligent research assistant for academic writing
Dec 2025 · scholantic.com · its alternatives →
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Your Literature Review Assistant — Discover literature and accelerate your entire research process with the most powerful visual search tool.
2021 · app.litmaps.co · its alternatives →
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PISA: Performant Indexes and Search for Academia. Contribute to pisa-engine/pisa development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Built an automated system to run a deep search of ArXiv and carefully find all the precise papers that exist on a complex topic. It's different from simple RAG because it searches, classifies, and adapts based on relevant papers it uncovers, and then continues until it finds every paper on a topic (trying to mimic the human research process). Benchmarked 10x higher accuracy and total retrieval compared to Google Scholar for a median search (whitepaper on website). Also knows when it is complete, and misses virtually nothing (< 3% or so, once it's converged). Website has a free trial and a…
2024 · app.undermind.ai · its alternatives →
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Automatically detect and resolve APA citation errors
2021 · scribbr.com · its alternatives →
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Scholise▲1A Research Workspace backed by real evidence, not invention
Mar 2026 · scholise.com · its alternatives →
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Tantivy▲68A full-text, horse-speed search engine library in Rust
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I’ve started building a distributed search engine for scholarly literature, which is completely contained within a browser extension: install it from the Chrome Web Store. It uses WebRTC and magic, and is currently, like, right now, used by 0 people. It’s you who can be number...
2014 · juretriglav.si · its alternatives →
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PISA: Performant Indexes and Search for Academia. Contribute to pisa-engine/pisa development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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