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Fatcat is versioned, publicly-editable catalog of research publications: +journal articles, conference proceedings, pre-prints, blog posts, and so forth. +The goal is to improve the state of preservation and access to these works by +providing a manifest of full-text content versions and locations. + +

This service does not directly contain full-text content itself, but +provides basic access for human and machine readers through links to copies in +web archives, repositories, and the public web. + +

Significantly more context and background information can be found in The Guide. + +

Feedback and queries can be directed to +webservices@archive.org. + +

Goals and Features

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A few things set Fatcat apart from similar indexing and discovery services: + +

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This service aspires to be a piece of sustainable, long-term, non-profit, +free-software, collaborative, open digital infrastructure. It is primarily +designed to support the archival and dissemination roles of +scholarly communication. It may also support the registration role +(establishing precedence and authorship), but explicitly does not aid with +certification of content, and is not intended to be used for +evaluation of individuals, institutions, or venues. This service is +"universal", not currated, and happily includes retracted and "predatory" +content). + +

Sources of Metadata

+ +The source of all bibliographic information is recorded in edit history +metadata, which allows the provenance of all records to be reconstructed. A few +major sources are worth highlighting here: + + + +Many thanks for the hard work of all these projects, institutions, and +individuals! + + +

Support and Acknowledgments

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Fatcat is a project of the Internet Archive, +a US-based non-profit digital library, well known for its +Wayback Machine web archive and +Open Library book digitization and +lending service. All Fatcat databases and services run on Internet Archive +servers in California, and a copy of most full-text content is stored in the +Archive's collections and/or web archives. + +

Development of Fatcat and related web harvesting, indexing, and preservation +efforts at the Archive have been partially funded (for the 2018-2019 period) by +a generous grant from the Mellon Foundation +("Long-tail Open Access Journal Preservation"). +Fatcat supports this work by both tracking which open access works in known +archives and providing minimum-viable indexing and access mechanisms for +long-tail works which otherwise would lack them. + +

The service would not technically be possible without hundreds of Free +Software components and the efforts of their individual and organizational +maintainers, more than can be listed here (please see the source code for full +lists). A few major components include the PostgreSQL database, Elasticsearch +search engine, Flask python web framework, Rust programming language, Diesel +database library, Swagger/OpenAPI code generators, Kafka distributed log, +Ansible configuration management tool, and Ubuntu GNU/Linux operating system +distribution. + +

The front-page photo of a large feline with a cup of coffee is by +Quinn Kampschroer, +under a CC-0 license. The name "Fatcat" can be interpreted as short for "large +catalog", as the service aspires to be a complete catalog of the digital +scholarly record. + +

A list of technical contributors, including volunteers, is maintained in the +source code repository (CONTRIBUTORS.md). Thanks everybody! + +{% endblock %} -- cgit v1.2.3