Would a single search-box across OpenAlex/arXiv/PubMed/Zenodo/OSF/DOAJ be useful in your workflow? (built one, looking for honest feedback)
Hi all,
Solo-builder, not an academic. I kept watching researcher-friends bounce between 6-8 open-access databases for lit-scans, so I built a tool that hits them all in parallel and merges results:
https://www.openscienceaggregator.com/
Before I push it further I want a sanity-check from people who actually do this work:
Is "one search-box across OA-sources" a real pain-point, or is Google Scholar + a citation manager already enough for most workflows?
Which sources would you expect that I'm missing? Currently hitting: OpenAlex, arXiv, PubMed, Zenodo, OSF, DOAJ, CORE.
Anything obvious I'm overlooking — formats (BibTeX export?), filters (peer-review status?), integrations (Zotero?)?
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