LENS Alternatives

LENS is described as 'The Lens serves almost all the patents and scholarly work in the world as a free, open and secure digital public good, with user privacy a paramount focus' and is an website in the education & reference category. There are more than 10 alternatives to LENS, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Android, iPhone, Android Tablet and iPad apps. The best LENS alternative is Google Scholar, which is free. Other great sites and apps similar to LENS are OA.mg, Semantic Scholar, Elicit and Scinapse.

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  1. Google Scholar icon
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    Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online journals of Europe and...

    34 Google Scholar alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  2. OA.mg icon
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    OA.mg is a search engine for academic papers. Whether you are looking for a specific paper, or for research from a field, or all of an author’s works – OA.mg is the place to find it.

    17 OA.mg alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  3. Semantic Scholar (paywall free) is a science publication aggregator that collects citation-data from PubMed, CiteSeer, IEEE etc and rank each article according to the percieved number of impactful citations.

    22 Semantic Scholar alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  4. Elicit icon
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    Elicit is an AI-powered research assistant designed to help users efficiently discover, organize, and analyze academic papers and insights.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  5. Scinapse icon
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    Scinapse is a free search engine for academic papers. As of September 2018, it indexes more than 200 million articles from more than 40,000 journals.

    15 Scinapse alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  6. Kubernetes dashboard with 30+ dashboards, 150+ monitoring cards, and AI-guided install missions for 186 CNCF projects. Connects to live clusters via kubeconfig.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. This project is a web interface that attempts to tame the overwhelming flood of papers on Arxiv. It allows researchers to keep track of recent papers, search for papers, sort papers by similarity to any paper, see recent popular papers, to add papers to a personal library, and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. CiteSeerX icon
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    CiteSeerx is an evolving scientific literature digital library and search engine that has focused primarily on the literature in computer and information science.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  9. AMiner icon
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    ArnetMiner (AMiner) is designed to search and perform data mining operations against academic publications on the Internet, using social network analysis to identify connections between researchers, conferences, and publications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  10. Shibata icon
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    Web interface to access Yubetsu Shibata - The World's 11th Largest Scientific Database

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  11. Scopus icon
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    Elsevier’s Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields.

    16 Scopus alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  12. BioSeek Mobile - Next Generation Search For Life Sciences. Fast. Efficient. Free. We process at one go multi-component searches that are normally quite time consuming. We strive to deliver the clearest representations of massive amounts of data.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
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