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Tools & how-toPubMed, arXiv and more, in your own language: paper searches without translating your terms into English jargon
When you look for papers, the slowest part may not be reading English. It is turning your search words into the right English technical terms. With Factdock's Academic Search, you just write what you want to know in your own language. It searches 15 academic databases, including PubMed and arXiv, at once, and you read the results in your own language too.
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Tools & how-toThat "quick look-up", in your own language. Vets make the diagnosis, Factdock finds the evidence: four connected tools, from symptoms to food, drugs and infectious diseases
How much time do you spend on that "quick look-up" after a consultation? Factdock's veterinary tools search papers and official data from around the world in your own language and lay them out with their sources. The vet makes the call. We help gather the material for that decision, fast. Following one patient through a case, we show how the four tools connect.
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How to search patents, made simple: when you think "this could be patentable", spend the first one or two minutes in your own language before you call a patent attorney
Is your product or idea actually new? How many similar patents exist, and in which countries? Before you consult a patent attorney, Factdock's Patent Search lets you check patents from the US, Japan, China, Korea and Europe together, in your own language.
Where is the truth that search can no longer find? Factdock, the primary-source search platform that breaks through the language barrier
What ranks first is not the most valuable information but the information best optimised for search engines, and AI summaries read those same top pages. Here is how to reach the primary sources buried underneath, in your own language.
ChatGPT vs Perplexity vs Google vs specialist databases vs Factdock: which is best for primary-source research?
AI search has made looking things up dramatically faster. So why does it still feel out of reach when you need a foreign regulation, a patent, or a company registry entry? Here are five research tools compared fairly, including what each one is genuinely not for.