Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Ebsco
The 20 closest library research databases alternatives to Ebsco, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 12 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Ebsco? The closest matches are proquest.com, JSTOR and Scopus. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 18 ms
01 · Entity
About Ebsco
Ebsco ebscohost.com
EBSCO Information Services
EBSCO is the leading provider of research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, ebooks and discovery service for academic libraries, public libraries, corporations, schools, government and medical institutions
Wikidata: journal
Summary by Claude
EBSCO provides research databases, e-journals, ebooks, magazine subscriptions and discovery services to institutions, accessed by users through the EBSCOhost research platform.
- Who it’s for
- Academic, public and school libraries, hospitals, corporations
- Business model
- Institutional subscriptions and licensing
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Ebsco’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Ebsco
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Ebsco, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
Very close cos 0.911 - 03
online bibliographic database
Very close cos 0.903 - 04
ScienceDirect
journal
Very close cos 0.904 - 05
De Gruyter Brill
De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence
Very close cos 0.905 - 06
database of biomedical research
Very close cos 0.898 - 07
ClinicalTrials.gov
United States government registry of clinical trials
Close cos 0.891 - 08
Elsevier | A global leader for advanced information and decision support in science and healthcare
Elsevier provides advanced information and decision support to accelerate progress in science and healthcare worldwide.
Close cos 0.889 - 09
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American financial services firm
Close cos 0.889 - 10
Brazil
digital library
Close cos 0.887 - 11
Scribd: Home to the world’s documents.
Get to the source. Specialized knowledge on any topic, and answers you won’t find anywhere else. Home to the world’s documents, 300M+ and counting.
Close cos 0.888 - 12
Statista - The Statistics Portal for Market Data, Market Research and Market Studies
Find statistics, consumer survey results and industry studies from over 22,500 sources on over 60,000 topics on the internet's leading statistics database
Close cos 0.887 - 13
medRxiv.org - the preprint server for Health Sciences
medRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by openRxiv, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing scientific communication
Close cos 0.886 - 14
Bazaarvoice | The UGC Platform for Authentic Shopper Experiences
The leading UGC platform for authentic ratings, reviews, visual UGC, and review syndication that powers discovery, shopper trust, and higher ecommerce conversion.
Close cos 0.886 - 15
Jusbrasil
Brazilian company
Close cos 0.886 - 16
POLITICO – European Politics, Policy, Government News
POLITICO Europe covers the politics, policy and personalities of the European Union. Our coverage includes breaking news, opinion pieces, and features.
Close cos 0.884 - 17
Psychology Today: Health, Help, Happiness + Find a Therapist
View the latest from the world of psychology: from behavioral research to practical guidance on relationships, mental health and addiction. Find help from our directory of therapists, psychologists and counselors.
Close cos 0.884 - 18
Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
- Google Search Console
- Google Tag Manager
- Cloudflare
- Cloudflare DNS
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
- Google Workspace
Close cos 0.884 - 19
EurekAlert! Science News Releases
EurekAlert! is an online science news service featuring health, medicine, science and technology news from leading research institutions and universities. Sponsored by AAAS, the science society.
Close cos 0.885 - 20
Home - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives
website on heavy metal bands
Close cos 0.882
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to ebscohost.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Ebsco uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Ebsco is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CMS
- Drupal header x-generator: Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org)
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:300,400,700&display=swap
- Analytics
- Amplitude page source: cdn.amplitude.com
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-chi-kmdw8640067-CHI, cache-ber1080024-BER, cache-ber1…
- Hosting
- Pantheon header x-pantheon-styx-hostname: styx-us-a-684cbff7d7-9psc8
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by Drupal (header x-generator: Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org))
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX ebscohost-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- DNS hosting
- UltraDNS NS pdns220.ultradns.org
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=9BkuByGvuss3dk/gW3Hy+ETISKifpOu3+Ecje5z…
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: IO_s-DHVhe4huNSal1oa4FIuZprMcQRq3tDNch3QMKs
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Ebsco adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Microsoft 365 15/20
- Atlassian 9/20
- Cloudflare · not on ebscohost.com 9/20
- Google Tag Manager 8/20
- Apple Business · not on ebscohost.com 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on ebscohost.com 7/20
- PHP 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on ebscohost.com 6/20
- OneTrust · not on ebscohost.com 5/20
- GlobalSign · not on ebscohost.com 5/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on ebscohost.com 5/20
- OpenAI · not on ebscohost.com 5/20
- Mailchimp · not on ebscohost.com 5/20
- DocuSign · not on ebscohost.com 4/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on ebscohost.com 4/20