How we source data

SciFind is a discovery tool and search index — not a publisher. We help researchers find academic positions that institutions have already published on their own public career portals: we show a short factual preview and always point applicants back to the original posting. This page explains how that works and how institutions can ask us to change or remove their listings.

Are you an institution? Ask us to remove or correct your listings — we act within one business day.

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Where listings come from

We collect openly published vacancy listings from the official career and job pages of universities and research institutions. We only access pages that are publicly available — no logins, no paywalls, no private data.

How we collect it — responsibly

• We respect each site's robots.txt and crawl politely, with conservative rate limits and an honest, identifiable user-agent.
• We store factual posting details — title, institution, location, workload, deadline, and a short snippet — not full reproductions of copyrighted descriptions.
• Every listing links back to the original posting, and applications for scraped roles happen on the institution's own website.

What we don't do

• We don't re-host or republish the full posting, or accept applications on your behalf — SciFind is an index and a signpost that links back to the source.
• We don't claim any affiliation with, or endorsement by, the institutions we list.
• We don't publish an editorial ranking of institutions.
• We don't collect or expose personal data from these pages — only the job postings themselves.

For institutions — removal & corrections

If you represent an institution and would like your listings corrected or removed, we honour requests promptly — usually within one business day. Use our removal request form or email thescifind@gmail.com. You can also block automated access at any time via your robots.txt, which we respect.