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
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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/>
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