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ScientificCommon.org è un progetto dell’Università di San Gallo (Svizzera), sviluppato presso l’Institute for Media and Communications Management, che consente di interrogare i principali archivi istituzionali e disciplinari Open Access e di recuperare il full text dei documenti scentifici ivi depositati.

Al momento, i documenti indicizzati superano già i 10 milioni.

Dalla pagina di presentazione del motore di ricerca:

“The major aim of the project is to develop the world’s largest communication medium for scientific knowledge products which is freely accessible to the public. A key challenge of the project is to support the rapidly growing number of movements and archives who admit the free distribution and access to scientific knowledge. [...]

The ScientificCommons.org project makes it possible to access the largely distributed sources with their vast amount of scientific publications via just one common interface. ScientificCommons.org identifies authors from all archives and makes their social and professional relationships transparent and visible to anyone across disciplinary, institutional and technological boundaries. Currently ScientificCommons.org has indexed about 10 million scientific publications and successfully extracted 4 million authors out of this data.

Core functions and aims of the project for now and the future are to provide the identification of repositories, the indexing of full-text documents, the extraction of author relationships and personalization services.

Localization of scientific repositories: ScientificCommons.org uses the Open Access Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) to retrieve scientific knowledge data.  [...] For more information please have a look at the Open Access Homepage“.

URL: http://en.scientificcommons.org