Papester Collective - nearly-automatic paper request fulfillment over twitter

[Bryan Bishop]

http://neuroconscience.com/2013/01/16/join-papester-collective-1-0-how-to-reply-to-icanhazpdf-in-3-seconds/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B038j0_3PmP9RYOM6LkFG7NHBiy6Y9ShurmewaG_4rU/pub

"""
Yesterday my friend Hauke and I theorized about a kind of dream
scenario- a totally distributed, easy to use, publication liberation
system. This is perhaps not feasible at this point [1]. Today webre
going to present something that will be useful right now. The
essential goal here is to make it so that anyone, anywhere, can access
the papers they need in a timely manner. The idea is to take advantage
of existing strategies and tools to streamline paper sharing as much
as possible. Folks already do this- every day on twitter or in
private, requests for papers are made and fulfilled. Our goal is to
completely streamline this process down to a few clicks of your mouse.
That way a small but dedicated group of folks b the Papester
Collective b can ensure that #icanhazpdf requests are fulfilled almost
instantly. This is a work in progress. Leave comments on how to
improve and further streamline this system and join the collective!

SHORT VERSION: HOW TO GET A PAPER BEHIND A PAYWALL QUICKLY

Tweet (for example): b#icanhazpdf
http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4568-12.2013b

Show your support for the papester collective by tweeting: bThanks to
#papester, my #icanhazpdf request was fufilled in seconds! Join:
http://bit.ly/W7fa2T #pdftributeb

Click: Here you can find more detailed instructions.

HOW TO JOIN THE COLLECTIVE AND START SERVING REQUESTS

SHORT INSTRUCTIONS AND REQUIRED SOFTWARE:

Twitter: Monitor #icanhazpdf #requests

Zotero and zotero browser plugin: after clicking on DOI link or
abstract page just click on bSave to Zoterob button to auto-grabs PDFs
http://zotero.org/


Zotfile: automatically copies new Zotero pdfs files saved to public
Dropbox folder
http://www.jlegewie.com/zotfile.html

Dropbox: Cloud storage system to seamlessly share files with anyone
without login.

Dropbox linker: automatically adds links from public folder to your clipboard
http://dropboxlinker.codeplex.com/

Reply to request tweets: paste URL from clipboard and if you want #papester

Thatbs it! Now you can just click request links, click the Zotero get
PDF button, and CTRL+V a dropbox direct download link in response!

Click: Here you can find more detailed instructions.

1.The fundamental problem: uploading huge repositories of scientific
papers is not sensible for now. Itbs too much data (50 million papers
* 0.5-1.5 megabytes together make up ~ 25-75 Terrabytes) and the
likelihood for every paper to be downloaded is more uniformly
distributed than with files traditionally shared like music. For
instance, there are 100 million songs x 3.5 mb songs, and it is
difficult to find exotic songs online b some songs have decent
availability now because there are only a few favourites b not so with
favourite papers. Also, fewer people will share papers than songs, so
this makes it more even more difficult to sustain a complete
repository. Thus, we need a system that fufills requests individually.

Disclaimer: Please make sure you only share papers with friends who
also have the copyrights to the papers you share.
"""

Instead of forcing the user to manually monitor twitter, you could
just have a simple client that reads a twitter feed, passes the urls
through zotero (after resolving them from the t.co shortlink),
download the pdf and upload to dropbox. Zotero already has a Google
Scholar search feature and auto-save-pdf feature, so I'm not sure
about those steps as written.

- Bryan
http://heybryan.org/
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