Introducing The Paper Bay

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Post by david927 » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 9:26 AM UTC

Introducing The Paper Bay
jacquesmattheij.com

Re: Introducing The Paper Bay

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Post by chewxy » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 10:04 AM UTC

Curious... have you seen /r/scholar? I've requested a few papers from /r/scholar (under throwaways usually), and they've always obliged

Re: Introducing The Paper Bay

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Post by abdullahkhalids » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 10:11 AM UTC

Interesting. It would be much more useful if the papers in the 'store' would be visible to everyone to see and request.

I wonder though how this ' we will deliver the paper on behalf of that email address.' will be important to challenge any copyright violation claims...

Re: Introducing The Paper Bay

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Post by kriro » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 10:13 AM UTC

Good luck :)

Re: Introducing The Paper Bay

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Post by buro9 » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 10:19 AM UTC

Very good.

But I'd love to have just seen the pirate bay duplicate itself and to create a site exclusively for academic papers. Seeding of obscure papers might be an issue, but I'm sure that it would work quite well.

Re: Introducing The Paper Bay

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Post by michaelfeathers » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 10:20 AM UTC

I never knew that Aaron was in the lineage of the guy behind the Mark Williams C Compiler.

Re: Introducing The Paper Bay

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Post by stared » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 10:24 AM UTC

While I agree with the "manifesto", the solution seems to be not that much radical. There are many places where people can upload their papers.

Moreover, a web1.0 interface does not seems to be efficient.

In that line there is already: http://www.pirateuniversity.org/

And... judging by it's name (i.e. The Paper Bay) I would expect something much more radical, actually aiming at getting 75TB of _any_ paper content...

Re: Introducing The Paper Bay

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Post by jacquesm » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 10:26 AM UTC

stared wrote: post #7

While I agree with the "manifesto", the solution seems to be not that much radical. There are many places where people can upload their papers. Moreover, a web1.0 interface does not seems to be efficient. In that line there is already: http://www.pirateuniversity.org/ And... judging by it's name (i.e. The Paper Bay) I would expect something much more radical, actually aiming at getting 75TB of _any_ paper content...

Give it some time ;)

Re: Introducing The Paper Bay

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Post by Create » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 10:36 AM UTC

perhaps it should have magnet links and torrent files like archive.org and an API to upload, .bib-s and RDF-s in the url bar for the likes of zotero.

http://arxiv.org/help/api/index http://archive.org/about/faqs.php#Archive_BitTorrents

Re: Introducing The Paper Bay

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Post by devopstom » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 10:47 AM UTC

This is a bit of a grey area that we deliberately avoided with PDFTribute.net; it seems perfectly acceptable to aggregate and index metadata, just as long as you're not actually storing any data.