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digital interlibrary loan for articles.
author | Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu> |
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date | Sat, 16 Nov 2013 15:16:04 -0500 |
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1.1 --- a/org/ideas.org Sat Nov 09 03:18:26 2013 -0500 1.2 +++ b/org/ideas.org Sat Nov 16 15:16:04 2013 -0500 1.3 @@ -31,6 +31,16 @@ 1.4 getting credit. 1.5 #+end_quote 1.6 1.7 +- digital inter-library loan :: libraries at universities already do 1.8 + interlibrary loans for books, so why not do the same for access 1.9 + to stupid paywalled digital papers? All the universities could 1.10 + allow access to articles for registered students to all the files 1.11 + available through any participating university. This could be 1.12 + achieved by sending requests through proxies at participating 1.13 + universities. Each university would decide who at the university 1.14 + can access the proxy network. Access to the proxy network could 1.15 + be made easy using something like http://libx.org/. 1.16 + 1.17 - chess visual :: to show the vast size of the game trees considered 1.18 by computers, show two people playing chess in a 1.19 void. They are floating in space, and there is a 1.20 @@ -50,7 +60,7 @@ 1.21 1.22 - time verification :: some standard way to verify that some piece of 1.23 data was recorded at a specific time. Might involve a time 1.24 - server, a key for each time period, something liek that. 1.25 + server, a key for each time period, something like that. 1.26 1.27 - tamper proof gold bars :: [[http://www.tungsten-alloy.com/gold-plated-tungsten-alloy-bar.html][this site]] offers gold plated tungsten bars 1.28 as "novelty" items. One reason to prefer coins is because they