Library
Article and data sources
Where we look for papers and data. Most of these are free. For paywalled papers, try the free-copy tools in the first group before you give up.
Find papers
More than 30 million biomedical citations. Start here for anything in health or life science.
The free full-text archive behind PubMed.
Full-text search across life science papers and preprints.
Broadest search. Use the cited-by link to move forward in time from a key paper.
Search with citation context and paper summaries.
Open index of papers, authors, and institutions.
Aggregates open access papers from repositories worldwide.
Vetted open access journals, with their publication fees listed.
Browser extension that finds a legal free copy of a paywalled paper.
Systematic reviews of health interventions.
Preprints and working papers
Biology preprints.
Health science preprints.
Preprints in physics, math, computer science, statistics, and quantitative biology.
Economics working papers, including most of the mobility and health economics work we cite.
Working papers in economics, law, and the social sciences.
Index of economics research with free versions linked.
Journals we read
JAMA and its specialty journals.
Clinical research and policy.
Clinical and global health research.
Clinical research, with strong methods coverage.
Health policy research.
Open access journals across biology and medicine.
Open access life science with public peer review.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Science and its family of journals.
Nature and its family of journals.
Open access research on how students learn and enter the life sciences.
The peer-reviewed public health journal published by the Boston Congress of Public Health.
Data
Mobility, college, and neighborhood data behind the Chetty papers.
Life expectancy by income, state, and commuting zone.
Mortality, natality, and public health data you can query online.
Federal health surveys and vital statistics.
Hospital inpatient and emergency department databases from AHRQ.
What Americans spend on health care and how they pay.
Medicare and Medicaid public use files.
Every NIH-funded project, searchable by lab, school, and topic. Useful for finding funded labs.
Harmonized census and survey microdata.
American Community Survey and decennial census tables.
Wages, employment, and occupation projections.
Federal education data, including IPEDS.
Science and engineering workforce and degree statistics.
Cross-country health system data.
Global health indicators.
Global Burden of Disease estimates.
Health outcomes and drivers for every US county.
Geographic variation in Medicare spending and care.
Health policy data and polling.
Health system performance research.
For companies and foundations
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