An analysis of DOIs suggests that digital preservation is not keeping up with burgeoning scholarly knowledge.
  • Brewchin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I’d love to see DOI automating a copy of each entry to archive.org. This would improve the likelihood of them remaining available.

    Sure, it would make grifters like Elsevier mad, but scientific knowledge worth a DOI entry shouldn’t be limited to a for-profit organisation.

    Edit: Worded first para badly. I meant anything assigned a DOI ID, regardless of where the work is hosted.

      • bobo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 months ago

        except Sci-hub hasn’t been adding new papers since 2020. Anna’s Archive is a better bet, because they aggregate both sci-hub and libgen, among others. They also make torrents available for data hoarders. Their torrents total over 600 TB at this point, but include books in addition to articles.

        • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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          8 months ago

          sci-hub and libgen already outputs list of torrents. do they also archive supplementary information? that’s where most of actual interesting data is, sometimes it’s open source, sometimes it’s not. (at least in my field)

    • bobo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      except Sci-hub hasn’t been adding new papers since 2020. Anna’s Archive is a better bet, because they aggregate both sci-hub and libgen, among others. They also make torrents available for data hoarders.

      • ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 months ago

        You’re right about Sci-Hub because of their Indian lawsuit which is very important to them, but I didn’t know that Anna’s Archive was a repository of scientific journals. Is it? I know Library Genesis (or LibGen) has a lot of scientific textbooks, but I didn’t know it had papers. Does it?

        Anyhow, Anna’s Archive and LibGen are super awesome too!