What is the Indexes Knowledge Base?
The Indexes Knowledge Base is a collection of structured and synthesized documentations about academic publications indexes. The online version of the Knowledge Base presents itself as a catalog that contains detailed information about the indexes’ main characteristics, with a particular focus on their data and metadata collection process and requirements. When available, the catalog also provides the links to the more exhaustive documentation on the indexes’ websites.
The Indexes Knowledge Base is a work in progress. The current version is available here. The first final version will be available in June 2025.
CRAFT-OA technical outputs are avaialabe to the public through the OPERAS GitHub repository: https://github.com/operas-eu
What does the Indexes Knowledge Base achieve?
The objective of the Indexes Knowledge Base is to facilitate the broadest dissemination of Diamond Open Access journals. It is meant to help the publishers to understand and select the appropriate index or aggregator for their contents, as well as to familiarize themselves with the indexes’ editorial and technical requirements.
The catalog includes any type of index that might be useful for that purpose. The term “index” was chosen as the broader term and can therefore correspond to a variety of types: repositories, aggregators, databases, etc. The documentation should also help to identify and understand these differences.
CRAFT-OA is funded by the European Union under Grant Agreement no. 101094397. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.