Due to my line of work, I find myself having to use both these services frequently, despite avoiding google as much as I can. I see a lot of alternatives out there for internet searching, but when it comes to specific fields, alternatives tend to be scarce.
PubMed instead of Google Scholar, would have to use specific search operatives to find what you need though. Also Elicit.org is a site that uses AI to find articles and break them down a little. I think with a free account you can get like x amount of searches, so may or may not be feasible for you. There’s also Scopus and Web of Science, but I have no experience using those.
I used to have access to scopus and web of science from my university, but I don’t have anymore, so I ended up using scholar, but looking for alternatives.
Elicit looks interesting, but I see that it requires a login, and has a bit weird privacy policy. I will check it in more detail, thanks.
I use JabRef for both finding research papers and generating bibliographies. It’s phenomenal and fully open source. Definitely worth checking out, I’m not even sure what I’d do without it these days!
I tried it, but didn’t find a way to search for articles. it seems closer to zotero than scholar. Am I missing something?
In the top left there should be a search option. In settings preferences, be sure it’s set up to search all sources. I get tons of articles when putting in pretty specific topics.
Edit: It’s in the preferences under the file tab. Here’s screenshots of my home screen, plus the preferences I use for it to search papers.
@shreddy_scientist @nossaquesapao I shared the academic Internet archive recently, which is pretty good. A JabRef dev commented on adding it to the JabRef search resources. I need to start using JabRef to help begin the move away from Google scholar but that’s very difficult to do as an academic.
There’s https://scholar.archive.org/
Thank you for the recommendation. I didn’t know archive.org had this feature, and it seems to be focused on open databases, something that even scholar doesn’t do. It will help me a lot.
