ScientificCommons
Encyclopedia
ScientificCommons is a project of the University of St. Gallen
Institute for Media and Communications Management. The major aim of the project is to develop the world’s largest archive of scientific knowledge with fulltexts freely accessible to the public.
ScientificCommons includes a search engine
for publications and author profiles. It also allows the user to turn searches into customized RSS feeds of new publications. ScientificCommons also provides a fulltext caching service for researchers.
that are not indexed can register by name and the OAI interface URL. It uses the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
(OAI-PMH) to extract data. Currently, only OAI
-compliant repositories and personal websites that are enhanced through Dublin Core
in their HTML headers can be included in the index.
ScientificCommons strongly supports self-archiving
, a legal way for authors to make publications from over 90% of scientific journals available, often called the "green road to open access". The maintainers suggest that scientists should refuse to publish with any journal which will not allow them to self-archive.
Apart from the metadata scraped from repositories, lexical and statistical methods are used to index keywords. Citations are also extracted from the bulk text. This data is used in the search engine and RSS feeds.
ScientificCommons has been designed to work with Zotero
.
Because it was made in German-speaking Switzerland, the web interface is also available in German. The majority of the information is in the language of publication, however.
University of St. Gallen
The University of St. Gallen is a public research university located in St. Gallen, Switzerland. It is specialized in the fields of business administration, economics, law, and international affairs. The University of St. Gallen is also known as HSG, which is an abbreviation of its former German...
Institute for Media and Communications Management. The major aim of the project is to develop the world’s largest archive of scientific knowledge with fulltexts freely accessible to the public.
ScientificCommons includes a search engine
Web search engine
A web search engine is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web and FTP servers. The search results are generally presented in a list of results often referred to as SERPS, or "search engine results pages". The information may consist of web pages, images, information and other...
for publications and author profiles. It also allows the user to turn searches into customized RSS feeds of new publications. ScientificCommons also provides a fulltext caching service for researchers.
Function
ScientificCommons has no registration wall for searchers, but repositoriesRepository (publishing)
A repository in publishing, and especially in academic publishing,is a real or virtual facility for the deposit of academic publications, such as academic journal articles....
that are not indexed can register by name and the OAI interface URL. It uses the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
OAI-PMH is a protocol developed by the Open Archives Initiative. It is used to harvest the metadata descriptions of the records in an archive so that services can be built using metadata from many archives...
(OAI-PMH) to extract data. Currently, only OAI
OAI
-Personal name:* Oai was the common nickname of Saigō-no-Tsubone , a figure in the history of feudal Japan.-Organizations:OAI, as an initialism, may refer to:*Ohio Aerospace Institute, a space grant college...
-compliant repositories and personal websites that are enhanced through Dublin Core
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata terms are a set of vocabulary terms which can be used to describe resources for the purposes of discovery. The terms can be used to describe a full range of web resources: video, images, web pages etc and physical resources such as books and objects like artworks...
in their HTML headers can be included in the index.
ScientificCommons strongly supports self-archiving
Self-archiving
To self-archive is to deposit a free copy of a digital document on the World Wide Web in order to provide open access to it. The term usually refers to the self-archiving of peer-reviewed research journal and conference articles as well as theses, deposited in the author's own institutional...
, a legal way for authors to make publications from over 90% of scientific journals available, often called the "green road to open access". The maintainers suggest that scientists should refuse to publish with any journal which will not allow them to self-archive.
Apart from the metadata scraped from repositories, lexical and statistical methods are used to index keywords. Citations are also extracted from the bulk text. This data is used in the search engine and RSS feeds.
ScientificCommons has been designed to work with Zotero
Zotero
Zotero is free, open source reference management software to manage bibliographic data and related research materials . Notable features include web browser integration, online syncing, generation of in-text citations, footnotes and bibliographies, as well as integration with the word processors...
.
Because it was made in German-speaking Switzerland, the web interface is also available in German. The majority of the information is in the language of publication, however.
Statistics
As of August 2008, Scientific Commons has:- 21,022,206 Metadata Records
- 8,510,882 Authors
- 916 repositories
See also
- Open Archives InitiativeOpen Archives InitiativeThe Open Archives Initiative is an attempt to build a "low-barrier interoperability framework" for archives containing digital content . It allows people to harvest metadata...
- Dublin CoreDublin CoreThe Dublin Core metadata terms are a set of vocabulary terms which can be used to describe resources for the purposes of discovery. The terms can be used to describe a full range of web resources: video, images, web pages etc and physical resources such as books and objects like artworks...
- Self-archivingSelf-archivingTo self-archive is to deposit a free copy of a digital document on the World Wide Web in order to provide open access to it. The term usually refers to the self-archiving of peer-reviewed research journal and conference articles as well as theses, deposited in the author's own institutional...
- Open access publishing
External links
- ScientificCommons home page
- An example of an author profile (Sergey Brin)