The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (MES) has launched the Open Ukrainian Citation Index (OUCI) scientific service. According to the information on the website, this is a search engine and a citation database.
According to the Ministry of Education and Science, the search engine indexes all sources that support the standard of the Initiative for Open Citations – now it is the majority of scientific publications in the world.
- OUCI is free of cost.
- The service is available in English.
- Currently, the database contains 109 million publications from all over the world, 167,816 of them are from Ukraine.
- The MES has spent no additional funds toward the development of OUCI – the search engine was created as part of the standard funding of scientific activities.
- Compared to Google Scholar, OUCI has open standards for content. There are no unlicensed documents or quotations (e.g. articles in regional newspapers).
- One of the advantages of the service is the filters, which help to filter out the results.
- The MES assures that the authority will not use or make decisions based on data from OUCI. It is just a scientific tool for scientists, students, scientific magazine editors, etc.
