About OpenScholar-Web
Research discovery built around the researcher
OpenScholar-Web is a research discovery and scholarly workflow platform built in India to help researchers, faculty and students discover literature, organize knowledge, monitor emerging research and build their scholarly presence.
Our Purpose
From finding a paper to building research knowledge
Research discovery is more than entering a keyword into a search box. Researchers need to find relevant literature, identify accessible sources, preserve important papers, organize reading, revisit ideas and stay aware of new work in their field.
OpenScholar-Web brings these activities into a connected research environment while keeping the experience focused, transparent and easy to use.
Research Workflow
One connected journey
Platform Capabilities
Designed for academic workflows
OpenScholar-Web combines research discovery... combines research discovery with practical tools researchers can use throughout their scholarly workflow.
Research Discovery
Search scholarly literature across papers, authors, journals and DOI records.
Personal Library
Save important papers and build an organized research reading workflow.
Collections
Group saved literature into focused collections for projects, topics and ideas.
Citation Tools
Generate and export citations for use in academic writing and manuscripts.
Research Alerts
Monitor research topics and identify newly published literature that matches your interests.
Researcher Profiles
Build and curate your scholarly identity, manage publications and maintain a public research profile.
Responsible Discovery
Supporting access to scholarly knowledge
OpenScholar helps researchers identify scholarly records and legally accessible open-access sources. Where available, users are directed to appropriate source, full-text and DOI destinations.
OpenScholar is a discovery platform. It does not replace publishers, institutional repositories or the original sources of scholarly publications.
Built in India
Research technology with a global outlook
OpenScholar-Web is being developed in India as an independent research technology initiative with the aim of making scholarly discovery and research organization simpler and more useful for the academic community.
OpenScholar Ecosystem
Web and Android
OpenScholar-Web is available as a web research platform and an Android application, extending research discovery and personal literature organization across devices.
Explore OpenScholar
Start your research journey
Discover literature, build your research library and create your scholarly presence on OpenScholar.