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Hi everybody, I'm Vivian, co-founder and CEO of Sparrho. Thank you very much for your interest and feedback. Our discovery engine focuses on making it easier f
by vivianchan_s 9y ago
Hi everybody, I'm Vivian, co-founder and CEO of Sparrho. Thank you very much for your interest and feedback.
Our discovery engine focuses on making it easier for anybody to discover the most relevant papers to them as soon as they’re published - across all fields, regardless of the impact factor of its affiliated journal, or whether you're somehow connected to the authors by citation or social following (like in ResearchGate's news feed).
Some of you have commented we are not a publishing platform for open access journals and that's absolutely right. What we mean by curation on Sparrho is allowing experts to build pinboards that bring together peer-reviewed articles, patents, and their own expert summary to help others understand and explore niche fields of research, like PhD student Mark here: http://www.sparrho.com/pinboard/liquation-cracking-in-high-temperature-materials/162826/ http://www.sparrho.com/pinboard/liquation-cracking-in-high-t...
Enabling open access to scientific research is nonetheless part of our long term mission. That will require collaboration, something that’s in our DNA as a company. Most recently we’ve worked with oaDOI to make 10 million free-to-access papers and author manuscripts discoverable through the Sparrho platform.
Following your comments, we've also tuned our quick search to a broader setting. @FTA, please try http://www.sparrho.com/search/climate%20change%20science/ http://www.sparrho.com/search/climate%20change%20science/ again to see if the results are more like what you expected. We’re seeing >6.5k results for “climate change science” and >48k for “climate change”. :)
If you have any more questions, you can always reach me and my team at hello@sparrho.com or contact us on our Sparrho community Slack channel at http://heroes.sparrho.com http://heroes.sparrho.com