Alternatives and competitors
Sites like proquest.com
The 20 closest academic research databases alternatives to proquest.com, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 7 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to proquest.com? The closest matches are JSTOR, De Gruyter Brill and ScienceDirect. 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
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- Vector
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- Query
- 11 ms
01 · Entity
About proquest.com
Summary by Claude
ProQuest provides subscription research databases, digitized newspapers, periodicals, dissertations and theses, ebooks and primary-source archives, mainly licensed to academic, public and corporate libraries.
- Who it’s for
- Libraries, universities, students and researchers
- Business model
- Institutional subscriptions and licensing
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to proquest.com’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 proquest.com
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to proquest.com, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read proquest.com’s homepage (too many redirects), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
Very close cos 0.918 - 02
De Gruyter Brill
De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence
Very close cos 0.915 - 03
ScienceDirect
journal
Very close cos 0.908 - 04
EBSCO - Research Databases, EBooks, Discovery Service
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
Very close cos 0.899 - 05
Client Challenge
global publishing company
Very close cos 0.896 - 06
Frontiers | Publisher of peer-reviewed articles in open access journals
Open access publisher of peer-reviewed scientific articles across the entire spectrum of academia. Research network for academics to stay up-to-date with the latest scientific publications, events, blogs and news.
Very close cos 0.895 - 07
online bibliographic database
Close cos 0.892 - 08
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 0.893 - 09
digital journal platform
Close cos 0.891 - 10
juris. Wissen, das für Sie arbeitet. | juris
Mit juris Zugriff auf mehrere Millionen Dokumente aus allen Rechtsgebieten bekommen! Online und immer aktuell ✓ Direkt anmelden!
- Apple Business
- Atlassian
- Microsoft 365
- Apache HTTP Server
- Google Ads conversion tracking
- Google Analytics
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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 0.888 - 12
open repository of academic articles
Close cos 0.887 - 13
database of biomedical research
Close cos 0.887 - 14
Captcha Challenge…
online studying platform
Close cos 0.886 - 15
Brazil
digital library
Close cos 0.886 - 16
Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
- Cloudflare DNS
- Google Search Console
- Cloudflare
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
- Google Workspace
Close cos 0.887 - 17
Zenodo
research data repository
Close cos 0.886 - 18
Nature
First published in 1869, Nature is the world’s leading multidisciplinary science journal. Nature publishes the finest peer-reviewed research that drives ground-breaking discovery, and is read by thought-leaders and decision-makers around the world.
Close cos 0.887 - 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.
- Google Search Console
- Microsoft 365
- Adobe Experience Platform Tags
- Apache HTTP Server
- Font Awesome
- Google Ad Manager
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Your access has been blocked – The Atlantic
magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C.
Close cos 0.888
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to proquest.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones proquest.com uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What proquest.com is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust TXT onetrust-domain-verification=3b4afe4244bd4d6699f3c0f3ed97964a
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX proquest-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS sunny.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=21QhpQJq3KYswHDm
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=uqUUHlogFKYYZxEZ3cJ6ZetyGYMPDuIMa3yrn6A…
- DocuSign TXT docusign=0c28423b-da0a-4c32-bb63-6940a33a4b1e
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=9Z1phgU6Xofo9g2tfjqL2cfLKuOrCTYkogANFdBnYGQ
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what proquest.com adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Microsoft 365 16/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on proquest.com 10/20
- OpenAI · not on proquest.com 9/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on proquest.com 8/20
- Salesforce · not on proquest.com 8/20
- GlobalSign · not on proquest.com 7/20
- Atlassian 7/20
- Cloudflare · not on proquest.com 7/20
- Google Workspace · not on proquest.com 7/20
- Zendesk · not on proquest.com 5/20
- Apple Business 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on proquest.com 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS 5/20
- Mailchimp · not on proquest.com 5/20
- Fastly · not on proquest.com 4/20