Citebase Search is an experimental, semi-autonomous
citation indexA citation index is an index of citations between publications, allowing the user to easily establish which later documents cite which earlier documents.The first citation indices were legal citators such as Shepard's Citations...
for the free, online research literature created by Tim Brody at the
University of SouthamptonThe University of Southampton is a British public university located in the city of Southampton, England. The origins of the university can be dated back to the founding of the Hartley Institution in 1862 by Henry Robertson Hartley. In 1902 the Institution developed into the Hartley University...
, UK. It harvests open access e-prints (most author self-archived) from OAI-PMH compliant archives, parses and links their references and indexes the metadata in a
XapianXapian is an open source probabilistic information retrieval library, released under the GNU General Public License . That is, it is a full text search engine library for programmers....
-based
search engineA search engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system. The search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly called hits. Search engines help to minimize the time required to find information and the amount of information...
. Citebase went live in 2005.
More than three-quarters of the papers indexed are author self-archived in the
ArXivThe arXiv is an archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, computer science, quantitative biology and statistics which can be accessed via the world wide web. In many fields of mathematics and physics, almost all scientific papers are placed on...
archive, which includes
physicsPhysics is a natural science; it is the study of matter and its motion through spacetime and all that derives from these, such as energy and force...
, maths and
computer scienceComputer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation, and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems. It is frequently described as the systematic study of algorithmic processes that create, describe and transform...
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Citebase Search is an experimental, semi-autonomous
citation indexA citation index is an index of citations between publications, allowing the user to easily establish which later documents cite which earlier documents.The first citation indices were legal citators such as Shepard's Citations...
for the free, online research literature created by Tim Brody at the
University of SouthamptonThe University of Southampton is a British public university located in the city of Southampton, England. The origins of the university can be dated back to the founding of the Hartley Institution in 1862 by Henry Robertson Hartley. In 1902 the Institution developed into the Hartley University...
, UK. It harvests open access e-prints (most author self-archived) from OAI-PMH compliant archives, parses and links their references and indexes the metadata in a
XapianXapian is an open source probabilistic information retrieval library, released under the GNU General Public License . That is, it is a full text search engine library for programmers....
-based
search engineA search engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system. The search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly called hits. Search engines help to minimize the time required to find information and the amount of information...
. Citebase went live in 2005.
More than three-quarters of the papers indexed are author self-archived in the
ArXivThe arXiv is an archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, computer science, quantitative biology and statistics which can be accessed via the world wide web. In many fields of mathematics and physics, almost all scientific papers are placed on...
archive, which includes
physicsPhysics is a natural science; it is the study of matter and its motion through spacetime and all that derives from these, such as energy and force...
, maths and
computer scienceComputer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation, and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems. It is frequently described as the systematic study of algorithmic processes that create, describe and transform...
. Some (published) biomedical papers are indexed from
BioMed CentralBioMed Central is a UK-based for-profit scientific publisher specializing in open access publication. BMC publishes 202 scientific journals, and describes itself as the first and largest open access science publisher. BMC sister companies publish the Chemistry Central and PhysMath Central journals...
and
PubMed CentralPubMed Central is a free digital database of full-text scientific literature in biomedical and life sciences.It grew from the online Entrez PubMed biomedical literature search system. PubMed Central was developed by the U.S. National Library of Medicine as an online archive of biomedical journal...
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A service displaying exclusively
ArXivThe arXiv is an archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, computer science, quantitative biology and statistics which can be accessed via the world wide web. In many fields of mathematics and physics, almost all scientific papers are placed on...
internal citations is XStructure.
See also
- Eprints
EPrints is an open source software package for building open access repositories that are compliant with the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. It shares many of the features commonly seen in Document Management systems, but is primarily used for institutional repositories...
- Citeseer
CiteSeer was a public search engine and digital library for scientific and academic papers. It is being replaced by CiteSeerx. It was created by researchers Steve Lawrence, Kurt Bollacker and Lee Giles while they were at the NEC Research Institute , Princeton, New Jersey, USA...
- NASA ADS
- Stanford Physics Information Retrieval System
The Stanford Physics Information Retrieval System was originally developed at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in 1969, from a design based on a 1967 information study of physicists at SLAC. The system was designed as a physics database management system to deal with high-energy-physics...