Trusted sources
Search peer-reviewed, official, and community-curated databases from a single search bar — for facts you can cite, claims you can verify, and research you can lean on.
What trusted sources give you
Instead of opening a dozen tabs and searching each database separately, run one query and get clean, structured results — ready to scan, cite, or drop straight into an article. Every search targets authoritative information, not generic web results: peer-reviewed papers for health and science, official agency documents for policy and data, reference works for background and definitions.
What you can search
Dozens of databases are organized into eight categories, so it's easy to pick the right one for the type of claim or context you need.
Encyclopedia & Knowledge
Broad overviews, factual data, and historical coverage. Includes Wikipedia, Wikidata, Internet Archive, and book catalogs (Open Library, Google Books).
Use it for: topic overviews, background facts, biographies, historical events, bibliographic references.
Academic & Research
Peer-reviewed and preprint literature across disciplines. Includes PubMed (biomedical), arXiv (physics, math, CS, AI), Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, and CrossRef for citation lookup by DOI.
Use it for: scientific evidence, clinical studies, cutting-edge research, verifying citations, literature reviews.
Technology
Community expertise and reference documentation for software and web topics. Includes Stack Exchange, GitHub, and MDN Web Docs.
Use it for: programming answers, open-source projects, web-standard references, developer documentation.
Organizations & Data
Publications from major global institutions. Includes the World Bank (development and economics), NASA (space and earth science), and the World Health Organization (global health).
Use it for: official statistics, health topics, development data, aerospace and earth science.
Community
Real-world opinions, discussions, and visual explanations. Includes YouTube and Reddit.
Use it for: user experiences, tutorials, demonstrations, real-world sentiment.
News & Journalism
Authoritative long-form reporting and archival news. Includes The Guardian and The New York Times, whose archive reaches back to 1851.
Use it for: current events, investigative reporting, historical news, commentary and analysis.
Reference & Media
Definitions, free-to-use media, and specialized text corpora. Includes Wiktionary (multilingual dictionary), Wikimedia Commons (free-use images, audio, and video), and Sefaria (Jewish texts).
Use it for: word definitions and etymology, free-use images, religious or primary-text research.
Search engines
Live web results from Google and Bing, surfaced through the same clean results layout as every other source.
Use it for: broad web discovery when you want the reach of a search engine without leaving the dashboard.
How to search
- Open Utility Tools → Trusted Sources Search.
- Pick a source from the dropdown. For sources that support multiple languages, the query language is detected automatically.
- Enter a descriptive search term and click Search. Results appear in a structured list with titles, excerpts, and direct links to the original material.
Usage
Each search counts as one use against the daily trusted-sources limit on your plan, regardless of which source is queried. The usage indicator on the page shows current consumption and remaining quota; the search button disables when the limit is reached and re-enables at the next daily reset. See Plans & usage limits for per-plan allowances.