PhilArchive
Business Profile
Core Value Proposition
PhilArchive provides the Philosophy E-Print Archive, offering open access to a vast, user-submitted collection of philosophy works with free access without requiring a user account.
Target Customer
Academics, researchers, and students in philosophy; researchers and institutions seeking open-access philosophy content; the broader academic community interested in philosophy e-prints
Key Differentiator
Largest open access philosophy e-print archive; integrated with the PhilPapers database; non-profit; content submitted entirely by users; free access without an account; built on and connected to PhilPapers infrastructure; OAI-PMH compliant
Implementation Timeline
Immediate access to content upon visiting; no account required to access items; submission and contribution processes are used for continual growth
Pain Points
- 1Need for broad, freely accessible philosophy research and discourse
- 2Desire to submit and share philosophical work within a large, centralized archive
- 3Requirement for discoverability across numerous philosophy topics and categories
Key Features
- 1Open access to philosophy e-prints with free content
- 2Submit your work to the archive (community-contributed content)
- 3Browse by a wide range of categories and topics (6,132 topics)
- 4Advanced search capabilities (as part of the site’s navigation)
- 5RSS feeds and email alerts for updates
- 6OAI-PMH compatibility (version 2.0) for harvesting and interoperability
Target Customer Industries
Client Results
- 1Increased access to philosophy research via a centralized, free repository
- 2A growing collection (over 114,995 works across thousands of topics) since inception
- 3Continuous additions of new works and forthcoming items through selected additions
Competitive Advantages
- 1Largest open access philosophy archive
- 2Free access without requiring a user account
- 3Community-driven with user-submitted content
- 4Integrated with the PhilPapers ecosystem
- 5Non-profit support via the PhilPapers Foundation and ongoing OAI-PMH standards
Key Benefits
Additional Product Information
Product Description
PhilArchive is the Philosophy E-Print Archive, the largest open access e-print archive in philosophy. It is built on and integrated with the PhilPapers database, allows free access to items without an account, and contains tens of thousands of works categorized across numerous topics. It is developed and operated by the Centre for Digital Philosophy at Western University and supports OAI-PMH harvesting.
Target Market
Philosophy researchers, graduate students, faculty, and libraries seeking open-access scholarly works in philosophy
Unique Value Proposition
The largest open access philosophy archive that is free to use, community-driven, and tightly integrated with the PhilPapers ecosystem, supported by a non-profit foundation
Technical Requirements
Web access; no mandatory account for access; OAI-PMH v2.0 standard supported for harvesting; standard web-based navigation and search
Pricing Model
Free access; no account required; non-profit hosting and maintenance
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