hscii

/ˈeɪtʃ ˈsaɪ/ (“h-sci”)

The Human Science Index is a open-science platform dedicated to preserving, sharing, and expanding human knowledge collaboratively.

Our Mission

Our mission is to transform how humanity preserves, shares, and builds upon its collective knowledge. By developing open, accessible, and sustainable tools, we empower researchers, institutions, and communities to collaborate on a platform designed for iterative progress.

With support from governments, institutions, and a global network of contributors, we aim to create a lasting foundation for the exploration and understanding of ideas — old and new — that shape our world.

About Us

We’re a group of researchers, open-source contributors, and software engineers who came together out of a shared frustration with how inaccessible and outdated the scientific publishing process has become. From modern publications that remain static and underutilized after release to ancient texts like the Bakhshali Manuscript and the Archimedes Palimpsest, the way knowledge is shared and preserved feels clunky and incomplete.

Science is inherently iterative, yet much of the system still clings to workflows rooted in outdated practices like mail-based submissions. We’re here to reimagine these processes, creating tools that make knowledge — past and present — easier to explore, iterate upon, and share.

Principles

Dedicated to open access, ethical governance, and lasting impact.

Knowledge Preservation

Permanently archiving contributions for future progress.

HSCII ensures that all contributions are permanently archived, maintaining historical integrity and enabling continual progress in understanding.

Open Access with Fair Use

Accessible tools, sustainable service funding model.

Ethical Governance

Committing to full transparency in operations and financials.

Milestones

Steps toward the future build on our successes.

The Index
2025
Launch of the HSCII Index, enabling advanced research across up-to-date open-science archives like arXiv, PubMed, and more. The Index leverages advanced pre-processing techniques, organizing content into fine-grained sections and encoding them into semantic embeddings. This approach enables precise referencing, rich cross-referencing, and a deeper understanding of interconnected research topics.
Project Platform
2025
Introduction of a unified platform for iterative publishing, project management, datasets, community review, and collaboration. Including tools for seamlessly packaging projects for journal and archival submission.
Public Service APIs
2025
Provision of APIs offering free basic access with pay-per-use options beyond generous usage limits or for resource-intensive operations. These APIs will support advanced retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), general data retrieval, advanced search, and integration with the project platform.
Enterprise Solutions
2025
Development of a comprehensive suite of features tailored for institutional use, including protected environments, archive uploading and exporting, advanced permission management, and custom educational or organizational access rules. Institutions will also benefit from tools for synchronizing with external archives and managing protected projects and datasets. Features developed for enterprise applications that have broader value will be made available across the platform for free users and teams.
Service Publication
2026
A streamlined service to prepare and submit research to journals or relevant archival platforms, such as arXiv, on behalf of users. Also includes tools to package projects for manual submission, ensuring professional presentation and compliance.
Concept Page
2026
Launch of a procedural, conceptual wiki generated from publication content. Features include rich references, best-effort translation, and seamless integration with HSCII’s APIs for high-speed, high-accuracy retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).