Internet Archive Shares More Information About “IA Scholar” Search Tool

Ed Note: We encourage those interested in IA Scholar to make sure to review the user guide to learn about the query syntax, identifiers, and tags IA Scholar offers. Kudos to Brewster, Mark, and team for making IA Scholar available.

From an Internet Archive Blog Post:

We hope Internet Archive Scholar will aid researchers and librarians looking for specific open access papers that may not be otherwise available to them.

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IA Scholar is a simple, access-oriented interface to content identified across several Internet Archive collections, including web archives, archive.org files, and digitized print materials. The full text of articles is searchable for users that are hunting for particular phrases or keywords. This complements our existing full-text search index of millions of digitized books and other documents on archive.org.

The service builds on Fatcat, an open catalog we have developed to identify at-risk and web-published open scholarly outputs that can benefit from long-term preservation, additional metadata, and perpetual access. Fatcat includes resources that may be useful to librarians and archivists, such as bulk metadata dumps, a read/write API, command-line tool, and file-level archival metadata. If you are interested in collaborating with us, or are a researcher interested in text analysis applications, we have a public chat channel or can be contacted by email at info@archive.org.

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We particularly want to thank the Mellon Foundation for their original and ongoing support of this work, our many current partners, and the other collaborators, contributors, and volunteers.

All of this is possible because of the incredible open research ecosystem built and collectively maintained by Open Access advocates. Thank you to the DOAJ and other groups for helping catalog open access journals which has aided preservation. Thank you to the Biodiversity Heritage Library and its supporters for digitizing print journal literature. And thank you to the many other organizations we have worked with, integrated, or whose services we have utilized, including open web indices (unpaywall.org, CORE, CiteseerX, Microsoft Academic, Semantic Scholar), directories of open journals (DOAJ, ROAD SHERPA/ROMEO, JURN, Wikidata), and open bibliographic catalogs (Crossref, Datacite, J-STAGE, Pubmed, dblp).

Learn More, Read the Complete Blog Post

Direct to IA Scholar

Direct to About IA Scholar and IA Scholar User Guide (with Example Queries)

See Also: How the Internet Archive is Ensuring Permanent Access to Open Access Journal Articles (September 15, 2020)

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