Citebase Explained

Citebase Search was an experimental, semi-autonomous citation index for free, online research literature created at the University of Southampton as part of the Open Citation Project.^{[1] [2] [3]} It harvested open access e-prints (most author self-archived) from OAI-PMH compliant archives, parses and links their references and indexes the metadata in a Xapian-based search engine.^[4] Citebase went live in 2005 and ceased operation in 2013.^[5]

More than three-quarters of the papers indexed were author self-archived in the ArXiv archive, which includes physics, maths and computer science. Some (published) biomedical papers were indexed from BioMed Central and PubMed Central.^[6]

See also

• EPrints
• Citeseer
• NASA ADS
• Stanford Physics Information Retrieval System

External links

• Archive of last available version of citebase home page (December 2012)

Notes and References

1. Evaluating Research Impact through Open Access to Scholarly Communication. University of Southampton. 2006. phd. en. Timothy. Brody.
2. Web site: Citebase. iplus.ukoln.ac.uk. https://archive.today/20130706204510/http://iplus.ukoln.ac.uk/technology/citebase. 2013-07-06. 2013-04-05.
3. Shotton. David. 2013-10-17. Publishing: Open citations. Nature News. en. 502. 7471. 295–297. 10.1038/502295a. 24137832. free.
4. Harnad. Stevan. 2008-11-14. Open access scientometrics and the UK Research Assessment Exercise. Scientometrics. 79. 1. 147–156. 10.1007/s11192-009-0409-z. 0138-9130. cs/0703131. 3183215.
5. Web site: Archive of 2013 citebase home page. https://web.archive.org/web/20130115030057/http://www.citebase.org/. 2019-06-07. 2013-01-15.
6. Web site: Citebase Evaluation Report: Full Official Version: OpCit . Steve Hitchcock . Arouna Woukeu . Tim Brody . Les Carr . Wendy Hall . Stevan Harnad. 2003. opcit.eprints.org.