What is the Guide to Scholarly Indexes?
The Guide to Scholarly Indexes is a collection of structured and synthesized documentation about academic publications indexes. The Guide records detailed information about the indexes’ main characteristics, with a particular focus on their data and metadata collection process and requirements. When available, the Guide also provides links to the more exhaustive documentation on the indexes’ websites.
The Guide consists of two outputs: the Knowledge Base (a spreadsheet) and the Catalogue (a Github repository). These two outputs differ in terms of format and usability, but contain the same information. The Knowledge Base is a spreadsheet gathering all the documentation in one file; the Catalogue contains distinct browsable files for each index.
The Knowledge Base is available on Zenodo at this URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15600155.
The Catalogue is available on Github at this URL: https://github.com/operas-eu/craft-oa-ScholIndexes-doc/tree/main
What does the Guide to Scholarly Indexes achieve?
The objective of the Guide to Scholarly Indexes is to facilitate the broadest dissemination of Diamond Open Access journals. It is meant to help the publishers understand and select the appropriate index or aggregator for their contents, as well as to familiarize themselves with the indexes’ editorial and technical requirements.
The Guide to Scholarly Indexes includes any type of index that might be useful for that purpose. The term “index” was chosen as the broader term and can therefore correspond to a variety of types: repositories, aggregators, databases, etc. The documentation should also help to identify and understand these differences.
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