Internet Archive Scholar(scholar.archive.org)

80 pointsby sohkamyung5 anni fa3 comments

scholar.archive.org

https://scholar.archive.org/

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While this is an excellent project, it's unfortunate that licit online libraries (both public ones such as this, and even those accessible to university-affiliated individuals) in many cases do not match their illicit counterparts in terms of selection (due to copyright restrictions) and ease of use (due to janky interfaces, DRM on books and, especially off-campus, as everyone is these days, disjointed authentication). Our web technology --- even our web technology of fifteen to twenty years ago --- is perfectly capable of serving a modern academic Alexandria, but artificial barriers have gotten in the way. It's a shame that so much is done via ad-hoc PDF sharing and allusions to "the usual sources."

It's just a shame.

(Of course, I do not blame the archive.org staff for the limitations on what their tool can access --- I know they're excellent in pretty much every way. But things could be so much better for them.)

text72635 anni fa

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26401568

[deleted]5 anni fa

benmanns5 anni fa

Is there anywhere to get a bulk copy of this metadata?

Edit: found it thanks to links in the earlier posting https://guide.fatcat.wiki/bulk_exports.html