# HG changeset patch
# User Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
# Date 1384632964 18000
# Node ID 135fabc13f8a67416dcf14e175a2173280eb1e5c
# Parent  ace7f097eb6cecbab88ab411994500236963b672
digital interlibrary loan for articles.

diff -r ace7f097eb6c -r 135fabc13f8a org/ideas.org
--- a/org/ideas.org	Sat Nov 09 03:18:26 2013 -0500
+++ b/org/ideas.org	Sat Nov 16 15:16:04 2013 -0500
@@ -31,6 +31,16 @@
 getting credit.
 #+end_quote
 
+- digital inter-library loan :: libraries at universities already do
+     interlibrary loans for books, so why not do the same for access
+     to stupid paywalled digital papers? All the universities could
+     allow access to articles for registered students to all the files
+     available through any participating university. This could be
+     achieved by sending requests through proxies at participating
+     universities. Each university would decide who at the university
+     can access the proxy network. Access to the proxy network could
+     be made easy using something like http://libx.org/.
+
 - chess visual :: to show the vast size of the game trees considered
                   by computers, show two people playing chess in a
                   void. They are floating in space, and there is a
@@ -50,7 +60,7 @@
 
 - time verification :: some standard way to verify that some piece of
      data was recorded at a specific time. Might involve a time
-     server, a key for each time period, something liek that.
+     server, a key for each time period, something like that.
 
 - tamper proof gold bars :: [[http://www.tungsten-alloy.com/gold-plated-tungsten-alloy-bar.html][this site]] offers gold plated tungsten bars
      as "novelty" items. One reason to prefer coins is because they