Does ebsco.com block AI crawlers?

Can AI assistants cite ebsco.com?

• ChatGPT search: its search crawlers may read the site
• Claude: its search crawlers may read the site
• Perplexity: its search crawlers may read the site

ebsco.com opts out of AI training by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Apple, Common Crawl, ByteDance, Meta. Training crawlers and answer crawlers are separate: blocking training doesn't by itself remove a site from AI answers.

AI crawler access, bot by bot

How ebsco.com compares

• 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; ebsco.com is one of them.
• 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; ebsco.com is one of them.
• 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; ebsco.com does not.
• Among 115 sites of similar popularity, 23% block at least one AI crawler.

The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /articles/
Disallow: /knowledge/
Disallow: /api/

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: Doubaobot
User-agent: imageSpider
Disallow: /

User-agent: AI2Bot
User-agent: Ai2Bot-Dolma
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: ChatGLM-Spider
User-agent: Cotoyogi
User-agent: Datenbank Crawler
User-agent: DeepSeekBot
User-agent: ERNIEBot
User-agent: ICC-Crawler
User-agent: Kangaroo Bot
User-agent: KimiBot
User-agent: KimiCrawler
User-agent: laion-huggingface-processor
User-agent: LCC
User-agent: micro-crawl
User-agent: MistralBot
User-agent: MoonshotBot
User-agent: MoonSpider
User-agent: netEstate Imprint Crawler
User-agent: omgili
User-agent: PanguBot
User-agent: QwenBot
User-agent: Reflectionbot
User-agent: SalamandraVLM
User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot
User-agent: Spider
User-agent: Timpibot
User-agent: VelenPublicWebCrawler
User-agent: webzio-extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: Meta-WebIndexer
User-agent: Devin
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Amzn-SearchBot
Allow: /
Disallow: /articles/
Disallow: /knowledge/
Disallow: /api/

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: Amzn-User
User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
User-agent: MistralAI-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /articles/
Disallow: /knowledge/
Disallow: /api/

Excerpt: only groups for all user-agents (*) or named AI crawlers, up to 40 rules per group.

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