A fab new open access site called Paperity has ripped all the Springer.com open access PDF articles and metadata from hybrid journals, into a TOCs directory and article pages, along with a basic search tool. I also noticed SAGE Open while trawling through the 2,000 or so titles, but otherwise it seems to be wall-to-wall Springer.com. Almost all the journals are science, but here’s my filtering of just the arts & humanities journal titles (and, of those, the ones that currently offer at least some OA articles)…
African Archaeological Review
American Journal of Dance Therapy
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
Archival Science
Archaeologies
Archives and Museum Informatics
Artificial Intelligence and Law
Asian Journal of Business Ethics
Children’s Literature in Education
Contemporary Islam
Contemporary Jewry
Continental Philosophy Review
Criminal Law and Philosophy
Dao (Taoist)
European Journal of Futures Research
Geoheritage
Identity in the Information Society
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion
International Journal of Anthropology
International Journal of Hindu Studies
International Journal of Historical Archaeology
International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society
International Journal of the Classical Tradition
Jewish History
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
Journal of Archaeological Research
Journal of Business Ethics
Journal of Cultural Economics
Journal of Ethics, The
Journal of Indian Philosophy
Journal of Maritime Archaeology
Journal of Philosophical Logic
Journal of Poetry Therapy
Journal of Religion and Health
Journal of the History of Biology
Journal of the Knowledge Economy
Journal of World Prehistory
Law and Philosophy
Marketing Letters
NanoEthics
Neophilologus (medieval books and literature)
Neohelicon (literature)
Philosophia
Philosophical Studies
Philosophy & Technology
Publishing Research Quarterly
Review of Philosophy and Psychology
Review of Religious Research
Sexuality & Culture
Studies in East European Thought
Studies in Philosophy and Education
Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
Water History
Since these are all indexed by Google, all OA articles from Springer are now showing up on JURN searches (if they weren’t already being brought in via JURN’s indexing of www.springeropen.com). I’ve also added the above journal links to the JURN Directory, with a “(via Paperity)” rider.
Marcin Wojnarski said:
David, thanks for writing about Paperity. As the founder I have to clarify one thing: Paperity is NOT a “rip” of any other site, by no means, and not of Springer in particular. Springer – as you know – is the biggest academic publisher worldwide, right after Elsevier, with a large number of journals, very positive attitude towards Open Access and lots of OA articles being published, especially in the hybrid-OA mode (individual papers scattered all over thousands of journals) – that’s why many articles and journals in Paperity happen to be from Springer, and that’s why this particular publisher is most visible in Paperity, which sometimes may create an impression that there is nothing else. But this impression is false: as much as 60% of articles indexed by Paperity come from non-Springer journals and there will be more in the future – all legitimate Open Access journals are welcome to join, details can be found at the Add Journal page: http://paperity.org/add_journal/
Anyway. Good luck with JURN, it’s a great website, and thanks for including Paperity links in the directory!
David Haden said:
Hi Marcin,
Thanks for your response. Paperity has indeed expanded its range of publishers since it was launched. That’s very welcome, and I look forward to seeing Paperity expand and develop in future. But I looked very closely at Paperity on launch, and my blog post was factually correct: the overwhelming majority of the OA journal articles and metadata at Paperity (in the first few days after launch) had appeared first at Springer.com. I have no problem at all with this approach. Indeed, what you’re doing with Paperity shows admirable chutzpah. I understand that you had to start somewhere, that the materials concerned are all re-published under an appropriate OA licence, are reconfigured within your own design stylesheet, and have backlinks to the publishers. So by ‘rip’ I never meant to imply that you were simply presenting exact duplicates of Springer.com web pages.
But you obviously do rip the OA content, and so I’m now curious about how it is ripped. Judging by certain similarities I assume that your scraper-bots must rip it direct from publisher websites, or from your local OA-filtered archive of such? Or perhaps the big commercial publishers have somehow created special company-approved OA-only content feeds, just for you? If that’s so, then why does Paperity not have any credits page to thank the source publishers and/or their staff? Even a basic list of included publishers would be useful to reassure users in this age of predatory publishers, but even that is absent. And why are such useful feeds (if they exist) not made public and usable by others, since they would quickly enable the likes of Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic to introduce OA-only filters? Neither service currently has such a search filter.