Free Scientific Databases & Open-Access Repositories

Your gateway to millions of freely available research papers (updated November 2025)

Major Free Scientific Resources

Resource Description Primary Disciplines
PubMed Over 35 million biomedical citations & abstracts. Many link to free full-text. Biomedicine Life Sciences
PubMed Central (PMC) Free full-text archive with >9 million open-access articles. Biomedicine
arXiv 2+ million preprints in physics, math, computer science, and more. Physics Mathematics CS
ResearchGate Social network where researchers upload full-text PDFs (160M+ publications). All Disciplines
Google Scholar Search engine for scholarly literature with links to free PDFs. All Disciplines
CORE Aggregates 200M+ open-access papers from repositories worldwide. All Disciplines
DOAJ Directory of 20,000+ fully open-access peer-reviewed journals. All Disciplines
Semantic Scholar AI-powered search with summaries and 200M+ papers. All Disciplines
bioRxiv Preprint server for biology (pronounced “bio-archive”). Biology Preprints
medRxiv Preprints in health sciences and clinical research. Health Sciences
SSRN Social Science Research Network – free papers in economics, law, etc.
Europe PMC European counterpart to PubMed Central with millions of free articles. Biomedicine
Zenodo CERN-hosted repository for papers, datasets, software (DOI for everything). All Disciplines
BASE Search engine for 100M+ academic documents, strong open-access focus. All Disciplines

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