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Let’s stop reviewing for publishers that profit from research! Join the strike! https://josephpcohen.com/w/reviewerstrike/

Let’s stop reviewing for publishers that profit from research! https://josephpcohen.com/w/reviewerstrike/

It is hard to make this requirement because then there is a whole set of ideas that cannot be referenced. It would close off the community that imposed that rule. In the past people have cited Geoffrey Hinton's slides for a concept origin. I don't think it is good to limit citations. Credit is important.

But it would be nice to see some rules on forums that say you cannot post paywalled items there. It would hopefully give more incentive to authors to not publish paywalled articles.

But I think a reviewer strike is a better solution that can result in a complete shift away from paywalls. The market is exploiting free labor, so without the free labor the business models must change.

We have collections which I guess should be featured on the front page. https://academictorrents.com/collections.php

There is metadata. It is stored in bibtex along with every torrent. This format allows it to be a freeform database where the user can add fields as they want. We (Academic Torrents) can then build new ways to display this metadata. Also the "abstract" part of the metadata is rendered as markdown on the details page of a torrent. Here is a good example: https://academictorrents.com/details/d52ccc21455c7a82fd6e589...

The main goal is to facilitate distribution. We work with research groups and provide "best effort" hosting with the resources from our sponsors. We expect the uploader has a backup of the data in all cases.

Sometimes if a torrent doesn't have seeds it is a signal that people do not value that data. Not all data should be stored forever. The community should vote with their servers what we should store forever and at what level of redundancy.

Yes. But webseeds also go away over time when a department shuts down a server or a student account expires.

We perform our own audits of all data and request a justification why it is academic data if it appears to be "Movie 2018". We think the collections model is the best balance between a walled garden and zero censorship. You can be assured that no collections curated by me will have a bad torrent in it! Here are a few:

http://academictorrents.com/collection/medical

http://academictorrents.com/collection/video-lectures

http://academictorrents.com/collection/joes-recommended-mirr...

http://academictorrents.com/collection/computer-vision

http://academictorrents.com/collection/deep-learning

You can browse collections and then order by seeders. Here are some collections I think should be mirrored:

http://academictorrents.com/collection/deep-learning?sort_fi...

http://academictorrents.com/collection/medical?sort_field=se...

http://academictorrents.com/collection/joes-recommended-mirr...

The data is hosted by the community and we also coordinate hosting from our sponsors (Listed on the home page)

We work with academic institutions to ensure they allow this service. Please report universities which block the service using the feedback button shown in the lower right of the webpage.

We also encourage HTTP seeds to be specified (aka url-lists) by the uploader to offer a backup URL which can be contacted automatically if BT is blocked. We also offer a python API designed for clusters and university computers written in pure python which supports HTTP seeds: https://github.com/AcademicTorrents/python-r-api

The project is run by the U.S. 501(c)3 Non-profit called Institute for Reproducible Research (http://reproducibilityinstitute.org) and this site has an overhead cost of ~$500/year. We plan to fund this project for at least the next 30 years. The community hosts the data and we also coordinate donations of hosting from our sponsors (listed on the home page).

We also run the project ShortScience.org! Check it out!

Sometimes people upload 1TB files which are not intended to be mirrored or not of interest to many people. We don't want people who donate hosting to mirror this content unless they really want to. But we also want to make it easy and automatic to mirror content. Using collections, which each have an RSS feed, content can be curated by someone you trust to decide what should be mirrored. I curate many collections including videos lectures, deep learning, and medical datasets.

I think averaging 2TB of data served a day is popular!

There are many torrents of UC Berkeley courses here! http://academictorrents.com/collection/video-lectures There is an RSS feed to mirror the entire collection!

There are many torrents of UC Berkeley courses here! http://academictorrents.com/collection/video-lectures There is an RSS feed to mirror the entire collection.

This is fixed! We added a new category! http://academictorrents.com/browse.php?cat=7

Dr. Cohen! But I don't care about titles. Thanks for posting about it! Do you know a hacker news post launched the site in 2014? I was chatting about it at an event in Boston and someone posted it on here and it went crazy. The machines we had hosting data had their 20Mbps connections maxed out for weeks. Now we are prepared and it's just another day!

Here is one of the plots from 2014: https://i.imgur.com/Ecr44AZ.png

We have academictorrents.org too!

We have not had an issue since 2013. All the content "must be legal to share" as stated on our upload page.

"BlindTool watches Star Wars" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52mYEkmBX30 it calls Chewbacca a Yorkshire Terrier.

So a default linux install shouldn't support perl? If OS's supported Java from the install just like they support exe's people wouldn't have to deal with downloading and configuring a runtime.. it would eliminate update managers and configuration issues.