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#2How is this site planning to stay in existence for longer than about an hour after it costs some organization a significant amount of money? Does Blogger just ignore takedown requests?
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#3How is this site planning to stay in existence for longer than about an hour after it costs some organization a significant amount of money? Does Blogger just ignore takedown requests?
It isn't, but if you read down it's described as a stop-gap solution. If people are actually using it by the time it gets taken down then it will get resurrected elsewhere.
Here's my question: suppose I, as a kind-hearted university-based individual who respects the needs of the journals to make money but is also interested in making sure that the general public can read important scientific research, decide to upload some papers to this site. How can I be sure that it'll never be traced back to me?
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#4How is this site planning to stay in existence for longer than about an hour after it costs some organization a significant amount of money? Does Blogger just ignore takedown requests?
It isn't, but if you read down it's described as a stop-gap solution. If people are actually using it by the time it gets taken down then it will get resurrected elsewhere. Here's my question: suppose I, as a kind-hearted university-based individual who respects the needs of the journals to make money but is also interested in making sure that the general public can read important scientific research, decide to uploa…
Make sure documents you're uploading don't contain any of your personal metadata.
Ensure that you're not the only person who owns the copy you're uploading (it could be watermarked or be a unique revision of the document).
Upload via TOR or similar.
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#5Isn't this copyright violation? It might be difficult to defend publication of entire papers as freedom of speech.
Also it's hosted on Google Blogger which will respond to DMCA complaints and enforce their TOS ("Google may, in its sole discretion, at any time and for any reason, terminate the Service"), so it won't last long anyway.
It should be ScienceTorrents.
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
It isn't, but if you read down it's described as a stop-gap solution. If people are actually using it by the time it gets taken down then it will get resurrected elsewhere. Here's my question: suppose I, as a kind-hearted university-based individual who respects the needs of the journals to make money but is also interested in making sure that the general public can read important scientific research, decide to uploa…
Make sure documents you're uploading don't contain any of your personal metadata. Ensure that you're not the only person who owns the copy you're uploading (it could be watermarked or be a unique revision of the document). Upload via TOR or similar.
The second requirement seems like it will be especially difficult to fulfill, especially if the document in question is legitimately available only from a journal. Most users will not be able to reliably spot any and all kinds of watermarks or embedded invisible metadata.
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#7For what it's worth, reddit.com/r/scholar is a much better resource for exactly the same purpose.
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#8On the topic of journals, and what gets published, "Wrong" by David H. Freedman should be required reading. Fascinating book, he documents how hard it is for researches to get negative results published (i.e. 10 studies on a new drug, 9 studies show it does nothing, 1 study finds there might be something positive - only the positive study will be accepted.)
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#9Most of the university students have to almost all scientific documents thanks to the library subscriptions of their universities.
It will be really easy to fill the website with thousands of papers but is it worth it? is it right to do so? If you are doing academic work you can easily apply for membership to any of those libraries and get access to any paper you need without violating copyright.
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#10For what it's worth, reddit.com/r/scholar is a much better resource for exactly the same purpose.
Also if somebody isn't aware, Google Scholar finds all sources of articles and there's usually a PDF available somewhere.