Let your blog run free!

Don’t allow your writing to be tied to one platform – register your science-related blog with Rogue Scholar, the free blog indexing service helping bring science blogs into scholarly database infrastructure.

I checked with Martin Fenner, who created and runs Rogue Scholar, and he said it works fine with non-paywalled Substack blog posts, I think because the full text of free posts are provided by Substack in the RSS feed… I believe Rogue Scholar needs the full text partially to try to find some of the metadata needed to populate into scholarly databases.

I should say, however, that I found the registration page difficult to navigate and needed Martin's help to register my blog. Turns out that this is because the site was recently re-worked and some parts still rely on the legacy codebase, causing some of the site's internal links to be confusing. Growing pains are to be expected, however, especially for a free project, one that I believe is very much is worth your support!

Check out what Rogue Scholar has accomplished over the last year: https://blog.front-matter.io/posts/report-rogue-scholar-advisory-board-meeting-october-16-2024/