Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Scholarly database providers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 220 scholarly database providers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 5,759 professional contacts across them, including 2,497 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Alexandria the largest hub.
This list covers scholarly database providers worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 22, 2026. Country and city lists for scholarly database providers follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest scholarly database providers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,332 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At EBSCO Information Services, we hire great people and let them thrive.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 741 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ProQuest, from Clarivate, is committed to supporting the important work happening in the world’s research and learning communities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 365 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ITHAKA's mission is to expand access to knowledge and education around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 132 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AM’s digital collections and technology platforms enrich the study, research and teaching of primary sources.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Informatics provides affordable and cutting-edge information Products and Services to the Indian research community such as academic institutions, research institutes, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 90 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “YBP Library Services, provides print and digital content and supporting collection management and metadata services to academic, research and special libraries in the Americas…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Al Manhal is the leading Arabic electronic information provider.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gale partners with librarians and educators to create positive change and outcomes for researchers and learners.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “JSTOR is a digital library for scholars, researchers, and students.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “OUR MISSION; FREE FLOW OF KNOWLEDGE Knowledge sharing is the core business of the Library.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’Abes - Agence bibliographique de l’enseignement supérieur, a été créée en 1994 pour mettre en œuvre le Sudoc, catalogue collectif des bibliothèques de l’Enseignement Supérieur.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “OpenEdition is an international digital publishing portal in the humanities and social sciences that brings together four platforms: OpenEdition Journals (e-journals), OpenEdition…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondée en 2005 par des maisons d’édition francophones (De Boeck, La Découverte, Erès, Humensis, Gallimard), Cairn.info travaille aujourd'hui avec plus de 400 structures…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At present, eLibro offers more than books, specialized publications and other texts of prestigious publishers, digitizing new books every month.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Knimbus: Your Smart Digital Library Ecosystem for a Changing World In today’s ever-evolving digital landscape, Knimbus is redefining how institutions manage, access, and deliver…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We deliver vital, real-world research-current, authoritative, often missing from traditional resources-to over 1,500 universities, libraries, governments, think tanks, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Bharat Book Bureau (3B)- we provide access to leading Digital Newspapers, Digital Magazines, and Online Databases.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “International library supplier since 1934 Erasmus supplies a full range of academic publications on all subjects, from all countries and in all languages.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The University Library of Tübingen is the second-largest academic library in Baden-Württemberg and a central hub of the university’s Research Excellence Infrastructure.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ProQuest's Alexander Street products are curated, discipline-focused, primary-source collections, websites, and streaming media for learning and research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Content Online provides you with essential and leading research from some of the world’s most influential publishers, working every day towards the betterment of humanity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Compañía líder en el suministro y gestión de información y contenidos para la comunidad académica, centros hospitalarios, de investigación y el sector corporativo.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DeepDyve is the company behind LitHub, an AI-powered literature-management platform offering researchers affordable, publisher-licensed access to scientific, technical, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Zendy has been created with an aim of radically facilitating access to academic literature.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ScienceOpen is a freely accessible, interactive discovery platform that is aggregating new records each day.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: scholarly database providers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names scholarly database providers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of scholarly database providers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name scholarly database providers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Scholarly database providers worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 22, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among scholarly database providers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for scholarly database providers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “scholarly database providers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names scholarly database providers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among scholarly database providers, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 2,497 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 22, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Scholarly database providers by location
1 lists · largest firstEvery Scholarly database providers list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names scholarly database providers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many scholarly database providers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 220 scholarly database providers worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Ebsco Information Services, headquartered in Ipswich, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most scholarly database providers?
The United States leads with 97 companies. Every scholarly database providers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most scholarly database providers?
Alexandria leads with 3 headquartered companies, followed by Ann Arbor (3) and Dubai (3).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 2,497 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 220 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 22, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.