The major aim of the project was to develop the world’s largest archive of scientific knowledge with fulltexts freely accessible to the public.
All visitors were forwarded to an administration login for server virtualization management software Proxmox VE[3] and the site is no longer issuing a valid TLS certificate.
ScientificCommons had no registration wall for searchers, but repositories that were not indexed can register by name and the OAI interface URL.
[4] Only OAI-compliant repositories and personal websites that have been enhanced through Dublin Core in their HTML headers could be included in the index.
ScientificCommons strongly supported self-archiving,[5] a legal way for authors to make publications from over 90% of scientific journals available,[6] often called the "green road to open access".