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Perpetual Access to Millions of Open Research Publications From Around The World


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Fatcat is a versioned, user-editable catalog of research publications including journal articles, conference proceedings, and datasets.

Features include archival file-level metadata (verified digests and long-term copies), a preservation coverage visualizer, work/edition grouping, an open API, and public metadata dumps.  Read more...

Our goal is to ensure long-term access to research content on the "scholarly web" by tracking holes in preservation coverage across digital preservation efforts

This service is hosted at the Internet Archive, a US non-profit digital library dedicated to providing Universal Access to All Knowledge. Donations welcome!

Development for this project funding comes from The Andrew Mellon Foundation, specifically to capture "long-tail" open access works on the public web which might otherwise be lost.

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Internet Archive Scholar is a sibling service, built on the Fatcat catalog, providing end-user access to and full-text search over research content across the Internet Archive's various holdings.

Project Status: Beta   API schema is not stable, and all edits must be manually reviewed.

Explore Works In The Catalog So Far ... and help us find what is missing!


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Entity Type Actions Examples Lookup
Release
journal article, pre-print, book
published version of a Work
Search
Create {% if config.FATCAT_DOMAIN == 'fatcat.wiki' %}
Paper {% else %} Paper (prod)
Dummy
Realistic {% endif %}

Other Identifiers
Container
journal or serial
Search
Create {% if config.FATCAT_DOMAIN == 'fatcat.wiki' %}
Journal {% else %} Journal (prod)
Dummy
Realistic {% endif %}

Other Identifiers
Creator
authors, editors, translators
Create {% if config.FATCAT_DOMAIN == 'fatcat.wiki' %} Author {% else %} Author (prod)
Dummy
Realistic {% endif %}

Other Identifiers
File
specific digital blobs (immutable)
Create {% if config.FATCAT_DOMAIN == 'fatcat.wiki' %} PDF {% else %} PDF (prod)
Dummy
Realistic {% endif %}

Other Hashes
File Set
datasets, suplementary materials
Create {% if config.FATCAT_DOMAIN == 'fatcat.wiki' %} Dataset {% else %} Dataset (prod)
Dummy
Realistic {% endif %}
Web Capture
HTML and interactive articles, blog posts
Create {% if config.FATCAT_DOMAIN == 'fatcat.wiki' %} D-Lib
Blog Post {% else %}
D-Lib (prod)
Dummy
Realistic {% endif %}
Work
for grouping Releases
Create {% if config.FATCAT_DOMAIN == 'fatcat.wiki' %} Paper {% else %} Paper (prod)
Dummy
Realistic {% endif %}
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