Metadata sources

This is a list of potential sources of journal article metadata for the Knowledge for All citation database. To filter by language, subject, data format, or metadata, click on a highlighted term.

Anthropological Index Online

http://aio.anthropology.org.uk/aio/

Citation database

Maintained by: Royal Anthropological Institute & Centre for Anthropology, British Museum

Country: UK

Number of journals: 782

Language: English

Subjects: anthropology

Licensing terms: Material is copyrighted and they expect institutions that use heavily to make a contribution.

Notes:

Includes journals from Eastern Europe and developing world not indexed electronically by others.

arXiv.org

http://arxiv.org/

Eprint archive

Maintained by: Cornell University

Country: USA

Number of articles: 668705

Language: English

Subjects: computer science, mathematics, physics, science, statistics

Data format: TeX, XML

Metadata schema: arXiv format, arXivRaw format, Dublin Core

Licensing terms: Metadata for arXiv articles may be reused in non-commercial and commercial systems.

Notes:

http://arxiv.org/help/oa/index

Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

http://adswww.harvard.edu/

Citation database

Maintained by: Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Country: USA

Number of articles: 8800000

Language: English

Subjects: astronomy, physics

Data format: BibTeX

Licensing terms: Need permission to download records: http://doc.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs_doc/help_pages/overview.html#use

Notes:

Also includes colloquia, symposia, proceedings, and internal NASA reports.

BioMed Central

http://www.biomedcentral.com/

Citation database

Maintained by: BioMed Central

Country: UK

Number of journals: 214

Language: English

Subjects: medicine, science, technology

Data format: XML

Metadata schema: Dublin Core

Licensing terms: "Metadata for all the articles we publish is available via our OAI interface." http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/libraries/oai

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CIRRIE Database of International Rehabilitation Research

http://cirrie.buffalo.edu/database/

Citation database

Maintained by: Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange (CIRRIE)

Country: USA

Number of articles: 125000

Number of journals: 5000

Language: English

Subjects: rehabilitation

Licensing terms: Unknown

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CiteULike

http://www.citeulike.org/

Reference management database

Maintained by: Springer, Oversity Ltd.

Country: UK

Number of articles: 5117400

Language: English

Subjects: Various

Data format: BibTeX, PDF, RIS, RTF, text

Licensing terms:

Notes:

Project closed source and managed by private companies so will likely not share data.

Cogprints

http://cogprints.org/

Eprint archive

Maintained by: Stevan Harnad

Country: UK

Number of articles: 2000

Language: English

Subjects: anthropology, biology, computer science, linguistics, medicine, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology

Data format: ASCII, BibTeX, DIDL, JSON, RDF, YAML

Metadata schema: Dublin Core, Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS ), Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS), Simple Metadata

Licensing terms:

Notes:

Also other portions of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition.

Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies

http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/#search

Citation database

Maintained by: Alf-Christian Achilles, Paul Ortyl

Country: Germany

Number of articles: 3000000

Language: English

Subjects: computer science

Data format: BibTeX

Licensing terms: Allows the collection to be copied and distributed but under specific terms and with attribution: http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Copyright.html

Notes:

Also includes conference papers and technical reports.

DBLP Computer Science Bibliography

http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/

Citation database

Maintained by: Michael Ley, Universität Trier

Country: Germany

Number of articles: 1300000

Language: English

Subjects: computer science

Data format: XML

Licensing terms: ODC-by

Notes:

Also includes conference proceedings and some full-text books. All data can be downloaded and reused in XML http://dblp.uni-trier.de/xml/ or http://thedatahub.org/dataset/dblp

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

http://www.doaj.org/

Citation database

Maintained by: Lund University Libraries

Country: Sweden

Number of journals: 5803

Language: English

Subjects: Various

Data format: XML

Metadata schema: doajArticle, Dublin Core

Licensing terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=loadTempl&templ=faq#oai

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E-LIS (E-Prints in Library and Information Science)

http://eprints.rclis.org/

Eprint archive

Maintained by: E-LIS network

Country:

Number of articles: 11500

Language: various

Subjects: library and information studies

Data format: BibTeX, RIS

Licensing terms: Open Data Commons Open Database License http://eprints.rclis.org/cms/copyright

Notes:

Can export citations to reference management software, but not sure of data harvesting possibilities beyond that. International project with good coverage of multilingual and international material.

EconPapers

http://econpapers.repec.org/

Citation database

Maintained by: Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)

Country: Sweden

Number of journals: 1251

Language: English

Subjects: economics

Data format: XML

Metadata schema: Academic Metadata Format (AMF)

Licensing terms:

Notes:

Data available via 3lib.org. Work with major publishers to have data on their journals included in RePEc and EconPapers. Also people upload their own articles and working papers. RePEc is a distributed data set residing in over 1100 archives operated by research organizations, academic departments and publishers.

Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)

http://www.eric.ed.gov/

Citation database

Maintained by: Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education

Country: USA

Language: English

Subjects: education

Data format: XML

Licensing terms: Data is licensed at no cost for third-party software systems, but need to make case and be approved.

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German National Library of Medicine (ZB MED)

http://www.zbmed.de/en/

Library data

Maintained by: German National Library of Medicine (ZB MED)

Country: Germany

Number of articles: 659000

Number of journals: 650

Language: English, German

Subjects: applied life sciences, medicine

Data format: SISIS

Licensing terms: Creative Commons CCZero

Notes:

http://openbiblio.net/2011/09/06/zb-med-publishes-open-article-data-in-m...

The CC MED dataset comprises article data from German and German-language journals obtained via scans of the Table of Contents. Article data in CC MED is generated from the tables of contents of the journal issues or from metadata supplied with the articles (e.g. German Medical Science). Includes journals published from 2000 onwards. The database offers a Z39.50 interface as standard.

getCITED

http://www.getcited.org/

Citation database

Maintained by: Michael K. Mauws

Country:

Language: English

Subjects: Various

Licensing terms: Contacted us and is willing to collaborate.

Notes:

Scholar directory, citation database, and citation analysis tool maintained by scholars. Includes books and whole journals - difficult to search separately.

H-Africa Journals and Tables of Contents

http://www.h-net.org/~africa/toc/

Citation database

Maintained by: Discussion group that's part of H-Net - an international consortium

Country: USA

Number of journals: 157

Language: English

Subjects: African studies

Licensing terms:

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Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Bibliography of Data-Related Literature

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/citations/index.jsp

Citation database

Maintained by: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

Country: USA

Number of articles: 57661

Language: English

Subjects: social sciences

Licensing terms:

Notes:

Thesaurus Creative Commons but not sure about data. Citations added by consortium members (700 institutions)/ researchers – 57661 citations but not complete by journal. Want data to be available so researchers can replicate.

Journal TOCs

http://www.journaltocs.ac.uk/

Table of contents (TOC) service

Maintained by: ICBL at Heriot-Watt University

Country: UK

Number of journals: 14947

Language: English

Subjects: Various

Data format: RSS

Licensing terms:

Notes:

API licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0. http://www.journaltocs.ac.uk/develop.php "API gives you access to our entire database of articles, journals and publishers, which is being updated and continually collected from the publishers' own TOC RSS feeds, as soon as they are published on the web." Students contacted Santiago by e-mail and he said, ““Anyone can freely use JournalTOCs API (http://www.journaltocs.ac.uk/docs) to reuse the metadata collected by JournalTOCs”.

Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC)

http://www1.lanic.utexas.edu/project/arl/laptoc.html

Citation database

Maintained by: Latin Americanist Research Resources Project (LARRP) – library consortium

Country: USA

Number of articles: 325000

Number of journals: 950

Language: Spanish

Subjects: Various

Data format: tab-delimited text

Licensing terms:

Notes:

Latin American periodicals.

LINGUIST List Table of Contents

http://linguistlist.org/pubs/tocs/browse-toc-archives.cfm

Citation database

Maintained by: LINGUIST list – listserv

Country: USA

Language: English

Subjects: linguistics

Data format: HTML

Licensing terms: Willing to share data with us but it's not in a format we can easily use.

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Magazine Stacks

http://www.fordham.edu/mvst/magazinestacks/

Citation database

Maintained by: Fordham University

Country: USA

Language: English, German

Subjects: Various

Notes:

Historical journals in German and English.

Mendeley

http://www.mendeley.com/

Reference management database

Maintained by: Mendeley

Country: UK

Number of articles: 77855485

Language: English

Subjects: Various

Licensing terms: Data for their API is licensed creative commons - not sure what that includes.

Notes:

Private company. Includes more than articles.

Middle East Virtual Library Periodical Contents Databases

http://www.menalib.de/

Citation database

Maintained by: ULB Halle

Country: Germany

Number of journals: 244

Language: various

Subjects: Islamic studies, Middle East studies

Licensing terms: Unknown - “open for co-operation with other libraries and information providers”

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Open J-Gate

http://www.openj-gate.com

Citation database

Maintained by: Informatics (India) Ltd

Country: India

Number of journals: 8468

Language: English

Subjects: Various

Licensing terms:

Notes:

Free database of open access journals provided by private company in India.

Pirate

http://www8.umoncton.ca/umcm-pirate

Citation database

Maintained by: Nelson Ouellet, University of Moncton

Country: Canada

Number of articles: 25000

Number of journals: 300

Language: English, French

Subjects: history

Data format: CSV

Licensing terms: Willing to provide us with data.

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Public Library of Science (PLOS)

http://www.plos.org/

Publisher

Maintained by: Public Library of Science (PLOS)

Country: USA

Number of journals: 7

Language: English

Subjects: biology, medicine, science

Data format: BibTeX, RIS

Licensing terms: Creative Commons Attribution License - willing to share data if we tell them what we need.

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PubMed

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/

Citation database

Maintained by: U.S. National Library of Medicine, U.S. National Institutes of Health

Country: USA

Number of journals: 5400

Language: English

Subjects: medicine

Data format: RDF, XML

Metadata schema: Dublin Core

Licensing terms: Data is public domain but they ask for acknowledgement: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/About/disclaimer.html

Notes:

An open access subset of the records are harvestable using OAI-PMH interface http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/guide/howto/dwn-records/. Also the CISTI/CIHI collection http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/oai.cgi?verb=Identify

Hubmed: Alternative interface for accessing PubMed data.

Also accessible via OKF http://openbiblio.net/2011/05/23/medline-dataset/

Linked data via JISC http://opencitations.net/source-data/ (About the project: https://opencitations.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/jisc-open-citations-proje...)

REHABDATA Database

http://www.naric.com/research/rehab/

Citation database

Maintained by: National Rehabilitation Information Center

Country: USA

Number of articles: 70000

Language: English

Subjects: disability, rehabilitation

Licensing terms:

Notes:

The database describes over 70,000 documents covering physical, mental, and psychiatric disabilities, independent living, vocational rehabilitation, special education, assistive technology, law, employment, and other issues as they relate to people with disabilities. The collection spans 1956 to the present.

Three main categories of documents are included: (1) reports, studies, and papers submitted by projects funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (as featured in the NIDRR Program Directory); (2) articles published in rehabilitation-related periodicals; and (3) commercially published books. Some non-print materials are also included.

SciELO – Scientific Electronic Library Online

http://www.scielo.br/

Citation database

Maintained by: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo in partnership with the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information and supported by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico

Country: Brazil

Number of journals: 248

Language: English, Portuguese, Spanish

Subjects: science

Licensing terms:

Notes:

Brazilian science journals - all full text.

Socionet

http://www.socionet.ru/

Citation database

Maintained by:

Country: Russia

Language: Russian

Subjects: social sciences

Licensing terms:

Notes:

A Russian (and Russian language) implementation of the RePEc method and database as the collective information environment for the social sciences. Database customization and filtration by a "personal information robot.” All in Russian so don't know much more about it.

Stanford Physics Information Retrieval System (SPIRES) High-Energy Physics (HEP) Literature Database

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/hep/

Eprint archive

Maintained by: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)

Country: USA, Germany

Number of articles: 892589

Language: Bulgarian, Croatian, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish

Subjects: physics

Data format: BibTeX, MARC, MARCXML, XML

Metadata schema: Dublin Core

Licensing terms:

Notes:

Related to arXiv. A lot of technical information about the system, not much else.

Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/amphoras/tdata/inform.html

Table of contents (TOC) service

Maintained by: CHASS at the University of Toronto

Country: Canada

Number of journals: 185

Language: English

Subjects: archaeology, classics, history, religion

Data format: SGML

Licensing terms:

Notes:

Journals of interest to Classicists.

ticTOCS Journal Tables of Contents Service

http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/

Table of contents (TOC) service

Maintained by: ticTOCs Consortium

Country: UK

Number of journals: 14195

Language: English

Subjects: Various

Data format: RSS

Licensing terms: "ticTOCs merely directs you to the publisher's feeds, therefore any questions about re-using the content of publishers' feeds for an OA citation database should be directed at the individual publishers"

Notes:

Plan to implement APIs that will allow you to extract data for one journal using its ISSN or several journals using their Dewey Decimal Number (or similar). Will need to register with us to obtain a key to use our APIs so we can monitor who is using our APIs so that we can ask heavy users and commercial users to contribute a small amount to ticTOCs' running costs.

Zotero

http://www.zotero.org/

Reference management database

Maintained by: Center for History and New Media at George Mason University

Country: USA

Language: Arabic, Austrian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese

Subjects: Various

Data format: BibTeX, RDF, RIS

Metadata schema: Dublin Core, Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS)

Licensing terms: Unknown - no visible terms of use, but open source project.

Notes:

Database of records is not publicly accessible or searchable, but API info suggests it might be accessible to developers through the API http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/start.