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(press release, apologies for cross-posting)<br>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><b>With the beginning of the new
academic year, <a title="Paperity: Open Access journals and
articles" href="http://paperity.org">Paperity</a>, 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.</b></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Right now, <a title="Paperity: Open
Access journals and articles" href="http://paperity.org">Paperity</a>
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://paperity.org/">http://paperity.org/</a>) 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.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">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.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">- <i>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</i> –
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.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">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.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Paperity website: <a
title="Paperity: Open Access journals and articles"
href="http://paperity.org/">http://paperity.org/</a></p>
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Marcin Wojnarski, Founder of Paperity, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.paperity.org">www.paperity.org</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/marcinwojnarski">www.linkedin.com/in/marcinwojnarski</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.facebook.com/Paperity">www.facebook.com/Paperity</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.twitter.com/Paperity">www.twitter.com/Paperity</a>
Paperity. Open science aggregated.
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