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the DOI issue is as described by "aroch" Quickscrape is capable of downloading PDFs, given a DOI I think: https://github.com/ContentMine/quickscrape If publishers listened to their readers we would have had 100% Open Access ten years ago. Traditional academic publishers do not listen and don't care. Even if I could convince say PLOS to do something about this it wouldn't change much. We need all or the majority of pu…
Well hopefully the coverage of full-text link metadata in Crossref will increase over time. Until then, best of luck to ContentMine! Improving metadata coverage is a different issue than changing business model. Objectively, one's easier to implement than the other. It is indeed tricky getting ~5,000 publishers to provide optimal metadata, but it's a good thing to have an industry-standard platform to do it in. (I wo…
Re: Show HN: PDFx – Extract Metadata and URLs from PDFs, and Download Referenced PDFs
#31Do you mean having all DOIs for all referenced papers included in the pdf metadata somehow? From my experience, authors don't know LaTeX well enough to do that. Half of them don't even read the submission guidelines that clearly say not to put page numbers on the camera-ready paper; they're never going to understand complicated metadata commands...