About Internet Archive Scholar

How It Works

Content in this search index comes in one of three forms:

This 2019 FORCE11 conference presentation gives an overview of the technical infrastructure and goals of the project overall.

Content Sources

Metadata comes from fatcat.wiki, an open user-editable catalog of scholarly work.

Text and Data Mining

We intend to provide researcher access to the full corpus for text and data mining purposes. Derived datasets may also be posted publicly for analysis, for example a citation graph or N-gram frequencies by year. If you are interested or would like to see specific datasets made available, please contact us at scholar@archive.org.

Currently snapshots of the full fatcat metadata corpus and upstream metadata sources are uploaded periodically to the Bulk Bibliographic Metadata collection on archive.org. Read more in the Fatcat Guide.

Authors and Publishers

Information specifically for authors of research works can be found at https://guide.fatcat.wiki/authors.html. This includes instructions for correcting bibliographic metadata and updates to published works.

In alignment with its mission, Internet Archive makes automated attempts to capture and preserve all open access research publications on the public web. If your open access journal articles aren’t currently included in Internet Archive Scholar, you can fill out the Internet Archive Scholar inclusion form to share journal URLs for crawling. Please note that it will take at least 3 months from the time you submit this form until your content starts to appear in Internet Archive Scholar. Emails about the status of your content sent less than 3 months after submitting this form will not be answered. Additional information specifically for publishers can be found at https://guide.fatcat.wiki/publishers.html. This includes guidelines for having content indexed and preserved.

Contact Information

Queries about this search service and the fatcat catalog can be directed to scholar@archive.org. There is a public chat channel at https://gitter.im/internetarchive/fatcat.

Support and Acknowledgements

Work on Internet Archive Scholar has received support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through multiple phases of the "Ensuring the Persistent Access of Open Access Journal Literature" project (see original announcement).

See additional acknowledgements on fatcat.wiki.