Table 5 Comparison of publication databases.

From: CORE: A Global Aggregation Service for Open Access Papers

 

Free to use

Hosted full text

API

Dataset

Data sync

CORE

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Crossref

Y

N

Y

N

N

Scopus

N

Y

Y

N

N

Web of Science

N

Y

Y

N

N

Google Scholar

n/a*

N

N

N

N

Semantic Scholar

Y

Y

Y

Y

N

Dimensions

Y

Y

Y

N

N

1findr

N

Y

N

N

N

  1. By “free to use” we mean whether the database is free to access using automated methods (e.g. via an API). *Google Scholar does not provide any means for accessing their data programmatically.
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