ScholarStack integrates with 7 external academic sources, giving professors and students access to millions of scholarly resources without leaving the platform.

Primo

Your university's physical and digital library holdings — books, journals, databases, and e-resources. Requires Primo integration configuration by your admin (Dashboard → Integrations → Primo).

OpenAlex

A fully open catalog of 250 million+ scholarly works including journal articles, books, datasets, and dissertations. No account required. Best for finding peer-reviewed academic content across all disciplines.

Open Library

Over 3 million book records from the Internet Archive. Many titles are available for free online reading or borrowing.

Project Gutenberg

Over 70,000 free eBooks of classic literature, historical texts, and public domain works. Ideal for humanities courses.

DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books)

70,000+ peer-reviewed academic books published as free open-access PDFs. Covers all academic disciplines.

arXiv

2 million+ preprints and papers in physics, mathematics, computer science, economics, and related STEM fields. All papers are freely accessible.

Zenodo

Open research repository hosted by CERN containing datasets, software, reports, and publications from researchers worldwide. Especially useful for STEM and data-driven courses.

OpenStax — Free Peer-Reviewed Textbooks

OpenStax is a nonprofit initiative from Rice University. All textbooks are peer-reviewed, free to use, and licensed under Creative Commons. Available subjects: Anatomy & Physiology, Biology, Chemistry, College Algebra, Calculus, Economics, History, Physics, Psychology, Sociology, Statistics, and more. Over 60 titles available. These are complete textbooks — most 500–900 pages — and process cleanly through the AI pipeline for full RAG support.

<aside> 💡 For intro-level STEM courses, start with OpenStax. You can assign an entire OpenStax textbook as the course resource, then add your own supplemental readings on top. It is free, legal, and your AI agents can answer questions directly from it.

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arXiv — Research Preprints