[GOAL] Re: Paperity launched. The 1st multidisciplinary aggregator of OA journals & papers

Sun Oct 12 20:28:24 BST 2014

Thanks Dana. On our to-do list. :)
Marcin

On 10/12/2014 03:08 AM, Dana Roth wrote:
> It would be nice if 'Paperity' would maintain a listing of the 
> publishers of the journals they index.
> T-R does this for Web of Science Journal Citation Reports, and it is 
> very helpful.
>
> Dana L. Roth
> Millikan Library / Caltech 1-32
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> *From:* goal-bounces at eprints.org [goal-bounces at eprints.org] on behalf 
> of BAUIN Serge [Serge.BAUIN at cnrs.fr]
> *Sent:* Saturday, October 11, 2014 12:07 PM
> *To:* Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)
> *Subject:* [GOAL] Re: Paperity launched. The 1st multidisciplinary 
> aggregator of OA journals & papers
>
> Marcin,
>
> May I ask "what is the economic model of Paperity?"
> I didn't find any information about that on your web site.
>
> Cheers
>
> Serge
>
> Envoyé d'un téléphone portable, désolé pour le caractère inélégant...
>
> Le 10 oct. 2014 à 08:22, "Marcin Wojnarski" <mwojnars at ns.onet.pl 
> <mailto:mwojnars at ns.onet.pl>> a écrit :
>
>> Jeroen,
>>
>> Thanks, it's great to hear that you like Paperity!
>>
>> "True peer-reviewed" means published in a peer-reviewed journal, in 
>> contrast to a pdf just posted somewhere on the web (think Google 
>> Scholar), which can be anything: a peer-reviewed paper or not, 
>> published or not, even randomly generated to resemble a scholarly 
>> article, for example to pump up G Scholar citations 
>> (http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.0638).
>>
>> The new technology is called REgular Document EXpressions (redex). It 
>> is a computer language for analyzing long and complex documents, 
>> particularly written in a markup, like HTML or XML. It facilitates 
>> analysis of web context where the paper occured, which is critical 
>> for maintaining the link between the paper and its journal. Redex 
>> builds on top of the very fundamental technology of regular 
>> expressions (regex), but redefines the language entirely to make it 
>> suitable for large structured texts.
>>
>> Best,
>> Marcin
>>
>> On 10/09/2014 05:02 PM, Bosman, J.M. (Jeroen) wrote:
>>>
>>> Marcin,
>>>
>>> This is a great initiative. I had been hoping BASEsearch would take 
>>> on this task, but it is good to see others are stepping in.
>>>
>>> Congrats on the initiative. Still, a long way to go
>>>
>>> Could you elaborate on how your technology is able to recognize 
>>> “true peer reviewed papers” and what you consider to be “ true peer 
>>> reviewed papers”?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Jeroen Bosman
>>>
>>> @jeroenbosman
>>>
>>> Utrecht University Library
>>>
>>> *From:*goal-bounces at eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces at eprints.org] 
>>> *On Behalf Of *Marcin Wojnarski
>>> *Sent:* donderdag 9 oktober 2014 14:51
>>> *To:* Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci)
>>> *Subject:* [GOAL] Paperity launched. The 1st multidisciplinary 
>>> aggregator of OA journals & papers
>>>
>>> (press release, apologies for cross-posting)
>>>
>>> *With the beginning of the new academic year, Paperity 
>>> <http://paperity.org>, the first multidisciplinary aggregator of 
>>> Open Access journals and papers, has been launched. Paperity will 
>>> connect authors with readers, boost dissemination of new discoveries 
>>> and consolidate academia around open literature.*
>>>
>>> Right now, Paperity <http://paperity.org> (http://paperity.org/) 
>>> includes over 160,000 open articles, "gold" and "hybrid", from 2,000 
>>> scholarly journals, and growing. The goal of the team is to cover - 
>>> with the support of journal editors and publishers - 100% of Open 
>>> Access literature in 3 years from now. In order to achieve this, 
>>> Paperity utilizes an original technology for article indexing, 
>>> designed by Marcin Wojnarski, a data geek from Poland and a medalist 
>>> of the International Mathematical Olympiad. This technology indexes 
>>> only true peer-reviewed scholarly papers and filters out irrelevant 
>>> entries, which easily make it into other aggregators and search engines.
>>>
>>> The amount of scholarly literature has grown enormously in the last 
>>> decades. Successful dissemination became a big issue. New tools are 
>>> needed to help readers access vast amounts of literature dispersed 
>>> all over the web and to help authors reach their target audience. 
>>> Moreover, research is interdisciplinary now and scholars need broad 
>>> access to literature from many fields, also from outside of their 
>>> core research area. This is the reason why Paperity covers all 
>>> subjects, from Sciences, Technology, Medicine, through Social 
>>> Sciences, to Humanities and Arts.
>>>
>>> - /There are lots of great articles out there which report new 
>>> significant findings, yet attract no attention, only because they 
>>> are hard to find. No more than top 10% of research institutions have 
>>> good access to communication channels and can share their findings 
>>> efficiently. The remaining 90%, especially authors from developing 
>>> countries and early-career researchers, start from a much lower 
>>> stand and often stay unnoticed despite high quality of their work/ – 
>>> says Wojnarski. He adds that it is not by accident that Paperity 
>>> partners right now with the EU Contest for Young Scientists, the 
>>> biggest science fair in Europe. With the help of Paperity, the 
>>> Contest wants to improve dissemination of discoveries authored by 
>>> its participants – top young talents from all over the continent.
>>>
>>> Paperity is the first service of this kind. The most similar 
>>> existing website, PubMed Central, aggregates open journals, too, but 
>>> is limited to life sciences alone. Another related service, the 
>>> Directory of Open Access Journals, does index articles from multiple 
>>> periodicals and different disciplines, but does not provide 
>>> aggregation, only pure indexing: it shows metadata of articles, but 
>>> for fulltext access redirects to external sites. Moreover, both PMC 
>>> and DOAJ impose strict technical requirements on participating 
>>> journals, which limits the scope of aggregation. Paperity adapts to 
>>> whatever technology a given periodical employs.
>>>
>>> Paperity website: http://paperity.org/ <http://paperity.org/>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Marcin Wojnarski, Founder of Paperity,www.paperity.org  <http://www.paperity.org>
>>> www.linkedin.com/in/marcinwojnarski  <http://www.linkedin.com/in/marcinwojnarski>
>>> www.facebook.com/Paperity  <http://www.facebook.com/Paperity>
>>> www.twitter.com/Paperity  <http://www.twitter.com/Paperity>
>>>   
>>> Paperity. Open science aggregated.
>>>
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