My own productMarch 2026
Research Archive
One search box across four major academic databases, instead of four separate searches.
- Built for
- Students and researchers doing literature reviews
- My role
- Lead Developer
- When
- March 2026
The situation
Researchers repeat the same search across several sites, then manually strip out the duplicates that appear in more than one. It is tedious work that has nothing to do with the research itself.
What I built
The site searches four major sources at once and merges the results, removing anything that turns up twice. Saved papers live in your own browser rather than on an account, so there is nothing to sign up for and nothing collected about you. Citations export in one click.
What it lets people do
- Search four academic databases in one go
- Get a merged list with duplicates already removed
- Save papers without creating an account
- Export citations in one click
Under the hood
The tools this is built with. You do not need to know any of them to use it — open one if you are curious what it does.