Education and research sites for backlinks: 31 places to submit

Open course, textbook and research repositories. Slow, scholarly and selective, with lasting pages. 31 education and research platforms accept submissions: 29 are free or have a free tier, 2 are quick wins (free, short and checked), and we have checked the submission path of 31, most recently on 2026-08-07.

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Sites: 31
Free or free tier: 29
Path checked: 31
Recorded dofollow: 0
Median est. DA: 70

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30 – 496 sites
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Free24 sites
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Paid0 sites
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Moderate23 sites
Involved6 sites

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3 – 12 months ago31 sites
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MERLOT
merlot.org
Publish a genuinely reusable privacy or accessibility lesson on your tool, give it a stable URL and open license, then add its educational metadata to MERLOT.
- Checked 2026-08
- Free
- Quick
- Estimated domain authority DA ~70
90value Submit to MERLOT (opens in a new tab)
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OpenLearn Create
open.edu
Publish a free mini-course on privacy, redaction, scam detection, or accessibility with genuine your tool exercises in the curriculum.
- Checked 2026-08
- Free
- Moderate
- Estimated domain authority DA ~90
87value Submit to OpenLearn Create (opens in a new tab)
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SciCrunch RRID Resource Portal
scicrunch.org
Register a stable, genuinely research-used your tool software, service, or database with accurate maintainer and version metadata.
- Checked 2026-08
- Free
- Quick
- Estimated domain authority DA ~60
86value Submit to SciCrunch RRID Resource Portal (opens in a new tab)
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Open Textbook Library
open.umn.edu
Submit a complete, openly licensed privacy/digital-safety textbook already used in higher education.
- Checked 2026-08
- Free
- Moderate
- Estimated domain authority DA ~85
85value Submit to Open Textbook Library (opens in a new tab)
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OSF
osf.io
Create a public reproducibility project for your tool research, datasets, test methods, or privacy benchmarks and link the genuine project/site.
- Checked 2026-08
- Nofollow
- Free
- Moderate
- Estimated domain authority DA ~85
85value Submit to OSF (opens in a new tab)
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ReliefWeb
reliefweb.int
After your tool has eligible ReliefWeb content, request publishing access and submit humanitarian reports or training from verified owned URLs.
- Checked 2026-08
- Free
- Moderate
- Estimated domain authority DA ~85
85value Submit to ReliefWeb (opens in a new tab)
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Wikiversity
en.wikiversity.org
Develop a neutral, sourced learning project about privacy, accessibility, or online-scam literacy and cite your tool only in relevant exercises.
- Checked 2026-08
- Nofollow
- Free
- Moderate
- Estimated domain authority DA ~85
85value Submit to Wikiversity (opens in a new tab)
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CK-12 FlexBooks
ck12.org
Create an age-appropriate digital-citizenship or privacy FlexBook chapter with practical your tool exercises.
- Checked 2026-08
- Free
- Moderate
- Estimated domain authority DA ~80
83value Submit to CK-12 FlexBooks (opens in a new tab)
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Skillshare
skillshare.com
Apply with an original class outline and teaching sample for privacy-safe design, accessibility, or a practical productivity workflow, then build the class project and lessons if approved.
- Checked 2026-08
- Nofollow
- Free + paid tier
- Moderate
- Estimated domain authority DA ~90
82value Submit to Skillshare (opens in a new tab)
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Preprints.org
preprints.org
Publish an original benchmark or evaluation study of local-first privacy or security tooling with open code, data, and your tool implementation.
- Checked 2026-08
- Free
- Moderate
- Estimated domain authority DA ~75
81value Submit to Preprints.org (opens in a new tab)
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BCcampus Open Collection
bccampus.ca
Publish a Canadian-ready, openly licensed privacy or digital-citizenship textbook and use Contribute → Suggest a Textbook.
- Checked 2026-08
- Free
- Moderate
- Estimated domain authority DA ~70
80value Submit to BCcampus Open Collection (opens in a new tab)
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Envato Tuts+
tutsplus.com
Pitch a practical, outcome-based tutorial on client-side privacy, accessible UI, or web safety using original examples and an honest author identity.
- Checked 2026-08
- Free
- Involved
- Estimated domain authority DA ~90
78value Submit to Envato Tuts+ (opens in a new tab)
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Genially
genially.com
Create your original interactive privacy or accessibility guide and add relevant external actions to cited live tools.
- Checked 2026-08
- Nofollow
- Free + paid tier
- Moderate
- Estimated domain authority DA ~80
78value Submit to Genially (opens in a new tab)
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MoodleNet
moodle.net
Share your openly licensed digital-safety lesson pack or Moodle activity and curate it into an educator-focused collection.
- Checked 2026-08
- Free
- Moderate
- Estimated domain authority DA ~65
78value Submit to MoodleNet (opens in a new tab)
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Zotero Groups
zotero.org
Create a public privacy-tool research library with credible standards, papers, and references, including only genuinely relevant your tool documentation.
- Checked 2026-08
- Nofollow
- Free + paid tier
- Moderate
- Estimated domain authority DA ~80
78value Submit to Zotero Groups (opens in a new tab)
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FAIRsharing
fairsharing.org
Submit your genuine -maintained database, reusable reporting standard, or data policy with complete stewardship metadata.
- Checked 2026-08
- Free
- Moderate
- Estimated domain authority DA ~60
76value Submit to FAIRsharing (opens in a new tab)
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WikiEducator
wikieducator.org
Author a freely licensed hands-on module on a topic you know well, with relevant examples from your own work.
- Checked 2026-08
- Free
- Moderate
- Estimated domain authority DA ~55
74value Submit to WikiEducator (opens in a new tab)
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Scalar
scalar.usc.edu
Publish a coherent multimedia field guide on privacy, scam evidence, or accessible documents with cited your tool demonstrations.
- Checked 2026-08
- Free
- Moderate
- Estimated domain authority DA ~50
73value Submit to Scalar (opens in a new tab)
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Educative
educative.io
Propose a text-based, interactive course on web privacy, security headers, local-first tools, or accessible frontend testing, with practical code exercises and clear outcomes.
- Checked 2026-08
- Sometimes dofollow
- Free
- Involved
- Estimated domain authority DA ~75
72value Submit to Educative (opens in a new tab)
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ELIXIR TeSS
tess.elixir-europe.org
Register a substantive life-science privacy, medical-data de-identification, or research-data training resource hosted by your tool.
- Checked 2026-08
- Free
- Moderate
- Estimated domain authority DA ~45
71value Submit to ELIXIR TeSS (opens in a new tab)
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Open Research Knowledge Graph
orkg.org
Create a rigorous structured comparison of published privacy, redaction, or accessibility studies and include your tool only when supported by research.
- Checked 2026-08
- Free
- Moderate
- Estimated domain authority DA ~45
71value Submit to Open Research Knowledge Graph (opens in a new tab)
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Octopus
octopus.ac
Use ORCID to publish genuine research stages—problem, method, data or analysis—with contextual your tool code/data links.
- Checked 2026-08
- Free
- Moderate
- Estimated domain authority DA ~40
69value Submit to Octopus (opens in a new tab)
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Research Data Alliance Adoption Stories
rd-alliance.org
Document your real implementation of a named RDA recommendation with challenge, measurable outcome, lessons, and supporting resources.
- Checked 2026-08
- Free
- Involved
- Estimated domain authority DA ~65
69value Submit to Research Data Alliance Adoption Stories (opens in a new tab)
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Whole Tale
wholetale.org
Create a reproducible Tale containing your evaluation's data, code, environment, outputs, and narrative, then publish through a supported repository.
- Checked 2026-08
- Free
- Moderate
- Estimated domain authority DA ~40
69value Submit to Whole Tale (opens in a new tab)
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Directory of Open Access Books
doabooks.org
Apply only after your tool operates a genuine OA scholarly-book publishing program, then submit peer-reviewed privacy-tech books.
- Checked 2026-08
- Not stated
- Moderate
- Estimated domain authority DA ~70
68value Submit to Directory of Open Access Books (opens in a new tab)
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Maven
maven.com
Build and teach a live, project-based cohort on creating local-first privacy tools or accessible web utilities, supported by a substantive public syllabus and real instructor profile.
- Checked 2026-08
- Free + paid tier
- Involved
- Estimated domain authority DA ~70
66value Submit to Maven (opens in a new tab)
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ResearchBox
researchbox.org
Organize the complete code, data, materials, and outputs behind your real evaluation study into a public citable box.
- Checked 2026-08
- Free
- Moderate
- Estimated domain authority DA ~30
66value Submit to ResearchBox (opens in a new tab)
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DSCI Threat Intelligence & Research
dsci.in
Pitch an original evidence-backed privacy, scam, or cyber advisory based on genuine your tool research.
- Checked 2026-08
- Free
- Involved
- Estimated domain authority DA ~50
- India
64value Submit to DSCI Threat Intelligence & Research (opens in a new tab)
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RenkuLab
renkulab.io
Create your reproducible evaluation project with code, data connectors, environment, narrative, and a public session launcher.
- Checked 2026-08
- Free + paid tier
- Moderate
- Estimated domain authority DA ~40
64value Submit to RenkuLab (opens in a new tab)
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Snakemake Workflow Catalog
snakemake.github.io
Publish a public reproducible privacy-safe research workflow with a Snakefile, README, configuration, catalog metadata, and tests.
- Checked 2026-08
- Free
- Involved
- Estimated domain authority DA ~50
64value Submit to Snakemake Workflow Catalog (opens in a new tab)
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EOSC Federation
eosc.eu
Onboard your operational research-facing service through an eligible EOSC Node using the Federation Handbook process.
- Checked 2026-08
- Not stated
- Moderate
- Estimated domain authority DA ~55
62value Submit to EOSC Federation (opens in a new tab)

Common questions

Which education and research platforms are worth doing first?

By value score (authority, ease, cost and how recently we checked the path): MERLOT (90), OpenLearn Create (87), SciCrunch RRID Resource Portal (86). The list below starts with them.

How many education and research platforms give a dofollow link?

None of the 31 has a recorded dofollow link. Treat these as visibility and referral traffic first.

What authority do education and research platforms have?

The median estimated DA of the 31 rated sites here is 70. Estimates are rounded to 5 and have no named provider, so use them to compare, not as a Google metric.

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Backlink sites for Indian startups and businesses63

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