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From: Marcin Wojnarski <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 02:14:23 +0200

Dear Anthony,

We pay attention not to include any improper journals in Paperity and
to our best knowledge there are none at the moment, but if you - or
any other reader - find one, please let us know and we will
investigate the issue. Many eyeballs is the best way to spot bad
content.

Marcin

Marcin Wojnarski, Founder of Paperity, www.paperity.org
www.linkedin.com/in/marcinwojnarski
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On 10/12/2014 08:10 PM, LIBLICENSE wrote:
>
> From: Anthony Watkinson <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 10:09:24 +0100
>
> DOAJ and (I assume) PMC now go in for quality control. Does this new
> service filter for articles published in the sort of OA journals that
> are not recognised as properly peer reviewed by DOAJ?
>
> Anthony
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marcin Wojnarski <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 15:07:42 +0200
>
> (press release, apologies for cross-posting)
>
> With the beginning of the new academic year, Paperity, the first
> multidisciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals and papers, has
> been launched. Paperity will connect authors with readers, boost
> dissemination of new discoveries and consolidate academia around open
> literature.
>
> Right now, Paperity (http://paperity.org/) includes over 160,000 open
> articles, "gold" and "hybrid", from 2,000 scholarly journals, and
> growing. The goal of the team is to cover - with the support of
> journal editors and publishers - 100% of Open Access literature in 3
> years from now. In order to achieve this, Paperity utilizes an
> original technology for article indexing, designed by Marcin
> Wojnarski, a data geek from Poland and a medalist of the International
> Mathematical Olympiad. This technology indexes only true peer-reviewed
> scholarly papers and filters out irrelevant entries, which easily make
> it into other aggregators and search engines.
>
> The amount of scholarly literature has grown enormously in the last
> decades. Successful dissemination became a big issue. New tools are
> needed to help readers access vast amounts of literature dispersed all
> over the web and to help authors reach their target audience.
> Moreover, research is interdisciplinary now and scholars need broad
> access to literature from many fields, also from outside of their core
> research area. This is the reason why Paperity covers all subjects,
> from Sciences, Technology, Medicine, through Social Sciences, to
> Humanities and Arts.
>
> - There are lots of great articles out there which report new
> significant findings, yet attract no attention, only because they are
> hard to find. No more than top 10% of research institutions have good
> access to communication channels and can share their findings
> efficiently. The remaining 90%, especially authors from developing
> countries and early-career researchers, start from a much lower stand
> and often stay unnoticed despite high quality of their work – says
> Wojnarski. He adds that it is not by accident that Paperity partners
> right now with the EU Contest for Young Scientists, the biggest
> science fair in Europe. With the help of Paperity, the Contest wants
> to improve dissemination of discoveries authored by its participants –
> top young talents from all over the continent.
>
> Paperity is the first service of this kind. The most similar existing
> website, PubMed Central, aggregates open journals, too, but is limited
> to life sciences alone. Another related service, the Directory of Open
> Access Journals, does index articles from multiple periodicals and
> different disciplines, but does not provide aggregation, only pure
> indexing: it shows metadata of articles, but for fulltext access
> redirects to external sites. Moreover, both PMC and DOAJ impose strict
> technical requirements on participating journals, which limits the
> scope of aggregation. Paperity adapts to whatever technology a given
> periodical employs.
>
> Paperity website: http://paperity.org/

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