Usage category: used by reader of research

arXiv

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arXiv is a self-archiving repository service (hosted and operated by Cornell University) providing open access to e-prints in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics.

BASE

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Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) is a multi-disciplinary indexing and search service (hosted and operated by Bielefeld University Library), which harvests metadata from selected websites and data collections as well as from digital repositories supporting Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).

Citebase

admin — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:41:03 +0000

Citebase is an experimental citation index service and scientometric OA search engine (developed by University of Southampton) tracking citations of research literature from physics, maths, information science, and (published only) biomedical papers. Citebase harvests pre- and post-prints (usually author self-archived) from OAI-PMH compliant archives, parsing their references and indexing metadata in a search engine.

CORE

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COnnecting REpositories (CORE) is a service (developed by Knowledge Media Institute at Open University) aiming to facilitate free access to scholarly publications distributed across repository systems. CORE provides a full-text search facility, based on open metadata about resource relationships, by processing repository metadata and full-texts of Open Access resources.

CrossRef

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CrossRef is a publisher-funded service (managed by Publishers International Linking Association) providing DOI link-registration for scholarly and professional publications as well as infrastructure for linking citations across publishers via its DOI resolver service. CrossRef also provides an OpenURLQuery Interface that accepts metadata, searches to find a matching DOI, and redirects to the target of the DOI.

DOAJ

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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is an initiative (managed by Lund University Libraries) that aims to provide a comprehensive, quality-controlled directory of open access scientific and scholarly journals. It aims to increase the visibility and ease of use, thereby promoting increased usage and impact.

IESR

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Information Environment Service Registry (IESR) is a freely available catalogue of electronic resources and research collections. Managed by Mimas and based at University of Manchester, IESR is a machine-readable registry providing quality-assured, constantly updated descriptions of resources (and methods of accessing them).

IRS

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Institutional Repository Search (IRS) is a cross-search and aggregation service (currently hosted and managed by Mimas) providing an aggregated search point for UK repositories. Originally commissioned by JISC, IRS development was completed in July 2009, but the service has been running continuously since then.

ISNI

admin — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:02:45 +0000

International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) is a ISO standard in development for uniquely identifying the public identities of contributors to media content such as articles, books, TV programmes. ISNI will provide a tool for disambiguating names, linking data about names used in all sectors of publishing and media industries.

Journal Table of Contents

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JournalTOCs is a free, searchable collection of scholarly journal Tables of Contents (TOCs) developed and managed by Heriot-Watt University. JournalTOCs currently includes metadata of TOCs for more than 19,000 journals directly collected from more than 1200 publishers.

Kultivate

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Kultivate is an institutional repository project (managed by University for the Creative Arts) demonstrating use of repositories in the creative and applied arts. This project established a framework for repository enhancements, services and tools based on ePrints and aimed to increase arts research deposit in the UK Higher Education sector.

OAIster

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OAIster is a union catalog (currently managed by non-profit organisation OLCC) holding millions of records representing open access resources. The goal of OAIster is to create a collection of freely available, academically oriented, easily searchable digital resources. OAIster was built by harvesting from open access collections worldwide using OAI-PMH.

OpenAire

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Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe (OpenAIRE) is an EU-funded project to build e-infrastructure supporting researcher compliance with the European Research Council Guidelines on Open Access and the European Commission's Open Access Pilot. In addition to developing software packages supporting the harvesting, enriching and storing metadata from Open Access publications and scientific datasets, OpenAIRE provides Orphan Repository & Search service for EU-funded projects.

OpenDOAR

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OpenDOAR is a quality-assured registry service (maintained by SHERPA Services, based at University of Nottingham) providing a worldwide directory of academic open access repositories. OpenDOAR staff harvest and assign metadata to allow categorisation, visiting each repository catalogued to ensure a high degree of quality and consistency in the information provided. OpenDOAR primarily aims to be an authoritative source of OA repositories.

UK PubMed Central

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UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) is a subject repository developed by the European Bioinformatics Institute, The University of Manchester, and the British Library. UKPMC offers free access to biomedical literature resources including: PubMed abstracts (about 22 million); UKPMC full text articles (about 2.2 million, of which over 400,000 are Open Access); Patent abstracts (over 4 million European, US, and International); National Health Service (NHS) clinical guidelines; etc.

WoS

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Web of Science (Wos) is an online academic citation index (published by Thomson Reuters) providing access to multiple databases, cross-disciplinary research, and in-depth exploration of citations and links between publications. WoS covers more than 11,000 journals selected on the basis of impact evaluations (including open access journals) and over 12,000 conferences each year across a wide range of academic disciplines in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.