The Internet Archive has a similar project in beta:
I have about ten academic papers that are accessible online for free, so I tried a vanity search. The Internet Archive has indexed one of those papers; Unpaywall has none.
Unpaywall: An open database of 31,903,705 free scholarly articles
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#12All scholarly papers funded by public money should be made freely available. All of these paid for publications need to stop being the Intuit of their fields and stop making people pay for something tax payers already paid for.
to make things worse they even outsource reviewing to unpaid, uncredited scientists. many are just putting up because the older staff or the university management are eager for popularity points.
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#13I remember reading that reproducibility is hard in these scholarly articles... When will an AI attempt to reproduce the results from all CS and math articles.
That's an interesting expectation, the models we have today reach average human level but few can surpass the top human in a task (like AlphaGo). But who would pay for the massive compute necessary for such a large scale task?
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#15https://oa.mg/ is another initiative that indexes over 200 million papers and lets you know if a paper is open or not. They tend to have download links to a rather large amount of papers.
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#16I remember reading that reproducibility is hard in these scholarly articles... When will an AI attempt to reproduce the results from all CS and math articles.
I am not quite sure if that's your point but math articles, and CS articles to some extend, don't rely on experiments to the same extend as other fields. A mathematical proof doesn't have to be reproduced but verified. It will be a huge step forward when an AI can automatically verify proofs beyond the already used proof systems but that should be unrelated to reproducing experiments.
What I am missing are open source repositories, docker images and virtual machines for all CS papers. Why is it acceptable to publish papers without enabling everybody else to instantly reproduce it when it is technically possible?
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#17See also: https://core.ac.uk/
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#18I remember reading that reproducibility is hard in these scholarly articles... When will an AI attempt to reproduce the results from all CS and math articles.
That's an interesting expectation, the models we have today reach average human level but few can surpass the top human in a task (like AlphaGo). But who would pay for the massive compute necessary for such a large scale task?
Presumably an AI will reflect fewer than the creators intellect., made worse by the collaboration losses necessary to accomplish the project now
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#19The Internet Archive has a similar project in beta: https://scholar.archive.org I have about ten academic papers that are accessible online for free, so I tried a vanity search. The Internet Archive has indexed one of those papers; Unpaywall has none.
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#20For some reason, I expected a big search box for articles on the front page. It exists at http://unpaywall.org/articles but the link's hidden away at the very bottom of the page.
Same here.
Compare that to sci-hub, which is basically only a big search box to drop a DOI.