OATP tags by field

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• This page is temporarily closed to public edits while the project (1) works out methods for communal governance and (2) builds software to deal with approved and deprecated tags. To suggest edits to this page, contact Peter Suber.

• Also see our page on OATP tagging conventions.

Obvious tags

• We don't feel the need to maintain a complete list of the tags for fields or disciplines. Some are obvious, like oa.anthropology, oa.biology, oa.chemistry.

• If you're unsure what the tag is for a certain field, but call that field by a certain name, then invent a tag with that name, oa.FIELDNAME.

Non-obvious tags

Here are the field tags that may not be obvious, that use abbreviations, that need annotation, or that the project has approved in lieu of related, deprecated tags. In alphabetical order.

• oa.biomedicine = for biomedicine
  • The project also uses oa.biology and oa.medicine. Hence it can be difficult to decide when to use both these broader tags, without oa.biomedicine or when to use all three. To help those who may search on on any one of these tags, it's safest to use all three. But one day we may deprecate oa.biomedicine in favor of one or both of the broader tags. This is what we've done with oa.biochemistry.

• oa.cs = for computer science

• oa.geo = for all the "geo" fields, such as geoarchaeology, geochemistry, geochronology, geodetics, geography, geology, geophysics, and so on, including those that don't use the "geo" root, such as Earth science, meteorology, mineralogy, plate tectonics, sedimentology, seismology, and so on.

• oa.lis = for library and information science

• oa.literature = for literary studies in any language
• Deprecated: tags for literary studies in a particular language such as oa.english. The project needs these tags for works in those languages.

• oa.neuro = for all the "neuro" fields, such as neuro-kinetics, neuro-oncology, neuro-ophthalmology, neuro-psychopharmacology, neurophysiology, neuroscience, and neuro-semantics, and so on.

• oa.political_science = for political science
  • Deprecated: oa.polisci, oa.poli_sci

• oa.religion = for the field of religion or religious studies
  • Deprecated: oa.theology