Index of papers in psi journals

I have started work on an online index of published papers in psi journals. The prototype is available here:
https://www.psidata.org/search.php

Obviously it is still at a fairly early stage, and I hope to improve it gradually in various ways. But I hope it is already large enough to be useful. Details of the coverage of the index are here; currently it's limited to the main journals for the period 2001-2019:
https://www.psidata.org/about_search.html

If anyone spots any errors or technical problems, please let me know.

[Laird]

Great idea, Chris. You've done well to keep that under wraps until now.

Here's a registry of psi-studies. Hope this helps.
https://koestlerunit.wordpress.com/study...d-studies/

Here's a registry of psi-studies. Hope this helps.
https://koestlerunit.wordpress.com/study...d-studies/

Thanks. I do hope to include information about registries and data repositories in the index eventually, though it may be a while before I'm able to do that.

I'm in the process of adding presentations at Parapsychological Association Conventions to the index. Strangely enough, one of the abstracts from 2015 actually refers to an online index of papers in psi journals (at page 82):
https://parapsych.org/uploaded_files/pdf...4_size.pdf

This was being developed by Sergii Vakal and Igor Bombushkar of the Ukrainian Centre for Parapsychological Reseach in Kiev, and was online at
http://psihub.org/en/

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be accessible at the moment, though the Russian language pages at least have been available fairly recently, according to Google caches. I will try to contact the organisers, but I wondered whether anyone knew anything about the project.

[Laird]

I don't know about the other online index of psi papers, but I do have a suggestion, probably belated and overly demanding, but here it is:

Perhaps you could include in your database (for both results and searchability) the abstracts and keywords of papers?

I don't know about the other online index of psi papers, but I do have a suggestion, probably belated and overly demanding, but here it is:

Perhaps you could include in your database (for both results and searchability) the abstracts and keywords of papers?

Yes - I have various ideas for improving the index, and including abstracts is high on the list. Keywords are also a good idea.

I think the best thing to do would be to make the abstracts available rather than just indexing them (unfortunately, as far as I'm aware, they're not currently available for the Journal of the SPR or the Journal of Parapsychology - apart from some recent ones for the latter). I think permission would be required to do that.

[Laird]

I think permission would be required to do that.

Perhaps, though perhaps, too, it would count as "fair use"? In any case, I am sure that if you were to ask, you would gratefully be granted permission given the service you're providing.

Perhaps, though perhaps, too, it would count as "fair use"? In any case, I am sure that if you were to ask, you would gratefully be granted permission given the service you're providing.

You may be right about fair use. I'm not sure, but even if only as a courtesy I would ask first, and I would certainly hope for a positive answer.

I'm in the process of adding presentations at Parapsychological Association Conventions to the index. Strangely enough, one of the abstracts from 2015 actually refers to an online index of papers in psi journals (at page 82):
https://parapsych.org/uploaded_files/pdf...4_size.pdf

This was being developed by Sergii Vakal and Igor Bombushkar of the Ukrainian Centre for Parapsychological Reseach in Kiev, and was online at
http://psihub.org/en/

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be accessible at the moment, though the Russian language pages at least have been available fairly recently, according to Google caches. I will try to contact the organisers, but I wondered whether anyone knew anything about the project.

I have been checking this periodically since I posted last month, but unfortunately it seems to be defunct. I didn't get any response to my email enquiry.