Presenting Alexandria, a central hub for open access research papers.
The Royal Library of Alexandria, or Ancient Library of Alexandria, in Alexandria, Egypt, was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world. It was dedicated to the Muses, the nine goddesses of the arts and aimed to compile all the manuscripts available at the time.
In the same way, we also aim to compile in a sigle point-of-access all the scientific publications of our times, and thus we named this technology Alexandria in their honour.
Open access (OA) means unrestricted online access to peer-reviewed scholarly research. Open access is primarily intended for scholarly journal articles, but is also provided for a growing number of theses, book chapters, and scholarly monographs.
First, by allowing you to easily search through all open access available academic literature, so you can save time and focus on what you are really passionate about.
But it also help you in other ways:
- Are you a researcher? Give the maximum visibility to your work.
- Are you a research institution? Showcase your best research, download publications reports, and attract funding.
- Are you a goverment? Make research funded by the people, available for the people.
- Are you a company? Knowledge transfer partners were never easier to find.
The more users we have, the better our content gets... so please spread the word. Also any feedback, ideas and bug reports are welcome. Here is the Issues board on which you can add features requests and big reports.
And if you want to go one step further, you can also support us financially!
Deploying an Alexadria node in your servers is always welcome. It will help us support more papers, and reduce the download time for researchers in your geographical area.
We hope you love this project. You can check out the wiki page to know how to start developing with us easily.
All this seems very interesting to you? You want to contribute to the web in a regular basis?
That's why we built this project on top of cutting-edge technologies like:
- Ruby,
- Ruby on Rails,
- RethinkDB,
- Github,
- and many more!
Coming soon...