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Acrolinx
Enforcing consistent terminology and style across organizational content.
Official websiteAGRICOLA
Government-backed subject resource integrated into NAL SEARCH; selecting the AGRICOLA dataset targets the agricultural catalog. NAL says the former OpenAGRICOLA interface was retired, so direct ...
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 websiteBAILII
British and Irish Legal Information Institute with free judgments and legislation.
Official websiteBASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
Search engine for academic web resources harvested from thousands of open repositories, run by Bielefeld University Library.
Official websitebioRxiv
Life-sciences preprint archive and distribution service. Submissions receive basic screening, but manuscripts are not peer-reviewed, edited or typeset before posting; versions and later journal publication ...
Official websiteBluesky Search
Built-in search of public posts and accounts on Bluesky.
Official websiteBookboon
Publisher of business and student textbooks offered through subscriptions and partners.
Official websiteBrave Search
Independent web index with no user tracking, run by Brave Software.
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