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Re: Internet Archive Scholar: Search Millions of Research Papers

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Post by dbrereton » Tue, Mar 09, 2021, 8:48 PM UTC

Black101 wrote: post #9

marcodiego wrote: post #8

The internet archive is becoming an alternative good internet. It has a web archive, film archive, software archive, media archive... and now research papers archive. That is the internet as a giant library as we dreamed in early 90's.

Way too centralized (Centranet?), but it is very nice for now. It's a bit like the library of Alexandria, so it could change/disappear at any time.

I'm sure they'd be willing to decentralize it if there was a good way to do that. Maybe this can be done with something like IPFS [0].

[0] https://ipfs.io/

Re: Internet Archive Scholar: Search Millions of Research Papers

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Post by endisneigh » Tue, Mar 09, 2021, 8:51 PM UTC

I'm curious, how does the Internet Archive handle copyright with all of its services?

Re: Internet Archive Scholar: Search Millions of Research Papers

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Post by Black101 » Tue, Mar 09, 2021, 8:52 PM UTC

dbrereton wrote: post #11

Black101 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Way too centralized (Centranet?), but it is very nice for now. It's a bit like the library of Alexandria, so it could change/disappear at any time.

I'm sure they'd be willing to decentralize it if there was a good way to do that. Maybe this can be done with something like IPFS [0]. [0] https://ipfs.io/

Yes, they have very good intentions right now, but what if the leader gets hit by a bus.

Re: Internet Archive Scholar: Search Millions of Research Papers

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Post by throwaway8451 » Tue, Mar 09, 2021, 8:55 PM UTC

jahewson wrote: post #5

I took one look at that logo and concluded “this is not for me”.

Here is an appropriate soundtrack for browsing the results:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8gBfEDoEbY

Re: Internet Archive Scholar: Search Millions of Research Papers

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Post by zucker42 » Tue, Mar 09, 2021, 9:16 PM UTC

dbrereton wrote: post #11

Black101 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Way too centralized (Centranet?), but it is very nice for now. It's a bit like the library of Alexandria, so it could change/disappear at any time.

I'm sure they'd be willing to decentralize it if there was a good way to do that. Maybe this can be done with something like IPFS [0]. [0] https://ipfs.io/

The amount of data is absolutely insane.

Re: Internet Archive Scholar: Search Millions of Research Papers

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Post by BugsJustFindMe » Tue, Mar 09, 2021, 9:24 PM UTC

I couldn't find a list of what sources (like which journals) they're archiving from. Does anyone know where to find that? It would be nice to see what subject categories the archive covers.

Re: Internet Archive Scholar: Search Millions of Research Papers

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Post by betamaxthetape » Tue, Mar 09, 2021, 9:46 PM UTC

This is amazing. I had a play around with it whilst it was in beta, and was blown away by the variety of papers returned. On a whim I searched for a very obscure topic that I'd researched before (just for personal interest) in the past using worldcat / google scholar, and to my surprise was presented with several highly relevant papers I'd never come across before, that were exactly what I was looking for.

Re: Internet Archive Scholar: Search Millions of Research Papers

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Post by AnimalMuppet » Tue, Mar 09, 2021, 9:51 PM UTC

jahewson wrote: post #5

I took one look at that logo and concluded “this is not for me”.

If you're going to judge it by the logo rather than by the search results, it almost certainly is not for you...

Re: Internet Archive Scholar: Search Millions of Research Papers

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Post by puddingnomeat » Tue, Mar 09, 2021, 9:52 PM UTC

marcodiego wrote: post #8

The internet archive is becoming an alternative good internet. It has a web archive, film archive, software archive, media archive... and now research papers archive. That is the internet as a giant library as we dreamed in early 90's.

Is it easy to have a local copy?

Re: Internet Archive Scholar: Search Millions of Research Papers

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Post by nathias » Tue, Mar 09, 2021, 9:59 PM UTC

archive.org is really one of the few things still good on the internet, while studying it has been invaluable for my studies, I can't imagine what the previous generations that could only access 5% of sources were even doing.