The Rogue Scholar improves your science blog in important ways, including full-text search, long-term archiving, DOIs and metadata.
The Rogue Scholar is available with limited functionality since April 1, 2023, and full functionality (DOI and metadata registration, archiving of full-text content, and full-text search) since July 1, 2023.
Fill out the form linked from the homepage. We will add your blog to the Rogue Scholar and notify you within two business days.
We only cover blogs that write about science, and where the full-text content is made available via RSS feed and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license.
Yes. We accept blogs about all forms of scholarship. The term “science” is used in the broadest sense.
The current release supports English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German and Italian. Additional languages will be added based on user requests.
We will harvest your content and metadata using your Atom feed (or feed in other format such as RSS or JSON Feed).
You need to provide all content via RSS feed, so that can we implement archiving and full-text search.
Podcasts and vlogs are supported, but at an additional cost. Reach out to us via email.
The Rogue Scholar is free to use for blog authors.
We will send you quarterly invoices for the posts we have archived in the previous three months if there are more than 50 posts per year.
The Rogue Scholar is and will always be free to use and reuse, all content is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license.
We appreciate donations and other forms of support. Reach out to us via email.
Fundamental numbers describing the included blogs and posts.