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About Fatcat

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Fatcat is versioned, public-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 +

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, institutional and other repositories, and the public web. +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 the info@archive.org email address. +

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

Goals and Features

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

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

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 (in terms of -access) roles of scholarly communication. It may also support the -registration role (establishing precedence and authorship), but -explicitly does not aid with certification of content (particularly -curation; this service is "universal" and happily includes retracted and -"predatory" content), and is not intended to be used for evaluation of -individuals, institutions, or venues. +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 progeny of all fields to be reconstructed. A few +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 @@ -78,24 +78,24 @@ individuals!

Support and Acknowledgments

Fatcat is a project of the Internet Archive, -a US-based non-profit digital library, well known for it's +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 fulltext content is stored on the +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 +

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 both by tracking which open access works are not -getting preserved in any known archive, and providing minimum-viable indexing -and access mechanisms for long-tail works which otherwise would lack them. +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 (but see the source code for full +

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, @@ -104,9 +104,9 @@ distribution.

The front-page photo of a large feline with a cup of coffee is by Quinn Kampschroer, -under a CC-0 licensed. The name "fat cat" can be interpreted as short for -"large catalog", as the service aspires to be a universal (complete) -catalog of the digital scholarly record. +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! -- cgit v1.2.3