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Acrolinx
Enforcing consistent terminology and style across organizational content.
Official websiteAndi
Conversational web search with summarized answers.
Official websitearchive.today
Web page archiving service that saves a snapshot of a page on demand.
Official websitearXiv
Free open-access repository of preprints in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics, economics and related fields, operated by Cornell University.
Official websiteAskYourPDF
Chatting with a single PDF to extract answers and summaries quickly.
Official websiteBASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
Search engine for academic web resources harvested from thousands of open repositories, run by Bielefeld University Library.
Official websiteBrave Search
Independent web index with no user tracking, run by Brave Software.
Official websiteChatGPT
General-purpose AI assistant for brainstorming, summarizing and drafting research questions.
Official websiteClaude
AI assistant strong at long-document analysis and careful, nuanced writing.
Official websiteClinicalTrials.gov
Registry of privately and publicly funded clinical studies worldwide, run by the US National Library of Medicine.
Official websiteCochrane Library
High-quality systematic reviews for healthcare decisions, published by Cochrane.
Official websiteCongress.gov
Official source for bills, laws and congressional records, run by the Library of Congress.
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