PsyBrowse is an open access search engine and user subscription service. Subscribe to the topics, journals, authors, and papers you care about, and receive the latest updates. PsyBrowse highlights open access articles, data, and materials where available, making it easier than ever to find and discuss the research you love.
PsyBrowse is still under heavy development, so it is not yet ready for general use. However, we are looking for developers who want to help out! See below for details about where to get started.
A mostly-functional prototype is currently available. It allows for user sign-ups and subscriptions; however, searching is limited, and our database of articles is small at this point.
- The primary area in which we need help is to build up our database of
articles. We need people to work on creating "scrapers" that will scrape
metadata from journal websites. These functions can be seen in
psybrowse_app/management/commands/harvesters.py. - We are also in the process of setting up code ("harvesters") to periodically check RSS feeds for updates. Help with gathering RSS URLs for journals and setting up a function to read them would be immensely helpful.
- The plan is to switch to Elasticsearch for our back-end database of articles; individuals experienced with this would be of enormous help!
- Greater front-end work to make system more user-friendly is another big area.
- We always need people to help test the system! Even if you have no experience with programming, testing the system can help us identify bugs.