Paperity Hits 1 Million Paper Milestone | Paperity Blog

"To bring all open literature – from different countries, institutions, research disciplines – all to one place, for unconstrained access and discovery… Is it possible? We asked this question two years ago, when launching Paperity, the first multi-disciplinary aggregator of Open Access (OA) journals and papers. We had realized at that time that the system of scholarly communication was broken and inefficient, and were looking for ways to fix it. Our aim while developing Paperity was to catalogue all Open Access literature, give readers frictionless, quick access to full-text papers in one central location, and in this way facilitate discovery of OA literature, improve dissemination of new research findings and help scholars communicate efficiently. After two years of development and the inclusion of nearly 3,000 journals in Paperity, we reached today an important milestone: the inclusion of the 1,000,000th article. With about 100,000 of Paperity articles being less than 1-year old, Paperity is indexing now 30% of all newly published Gold Open Access papers. We are looking for ways to extend the aggregation to Green OA literature, too...."