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Citebase

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. It harvested open access e-prints from OAI-PMH compliant archives, parses and links their references and indexes the metadata in a Xapian-based search engine. Citebase went live in 2005 and ceased operation in 2013.

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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.123 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 20051 and ceased operation in 2013.35

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

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  1. Brody, Timothy (2006). Evaluating Research Impact through Open Access to Scholarly Communication (phd thesis). University of Southampton.
  2. "Citebase". iplus.ukoln.ac.uk. Retrieved 2013-04-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  3. Shotton, David (2013-10-17). "Publishing: Open citations". Nature News. 502 (7471): 295–297. doi:10.1038/502295a. PMID 24137832.
  4. Harnad, Stevan (2008-11-14). "Open access scientometrics and the UK Research Assessment Exercise". Scientometrics. 79 (1): 147–156. arXiv:cs/0703131. doi:10.1007/s11192-009-0409-z. ISSN 0138-9130. S2CID 3183215.
  5. "Archive of 2013 citebase home page". Archived from the original on 2013-01-15. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
  6. Steve Hitchcock; Arouna Woukeu; Tim Brody; Les Carr; Wendy Hall; Stevan Harnad (2003). "Citebase Evaluation Report: Full Official Version: OpCit". opcit.eprints.org.
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