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I'm actually curious what is new within this. As it stands, NASA research pre-prints are available on the tech reports server (http://www.sti.nasa.gov/ http://w

by thearn4 10y ago

I'm actually curious what is new within this. As it stands, NASA research pre-prints are available on the tech reports server (http://www.sti.nasa.gov/ http://www.sti.nasa.gov/), typically right after the export control review process. edit: maybe it's related to certain journals where there wasn't access on the STI server? Seems odd to me. For the 8 years that I've been at NASA, it's always been expected that my group's work had to be accessible. edit2: not all rules are universal across the agency, so my experience may be too specific to Glenn Research Center/my division. In any case, the more open, the better.

CamperBob2 10y ago
After 9/11, when people were running around like decapitated chickens, a lot of useful government-funded (read: taxpayer-funded) documentation was pulled from sites like nist.gov. It has slowly been trickling back. This may be a similar case.
- themartorana 10y ago
  Overreaction is the calling card of not having learned from the past. In any case, would scraping sites like nist.gov and mirroring the information therein be considered illegal?
  - cooper12 10y ago
    Works created by government employees as part of their official duties are in the public domain in the U.S. However, scraping might break some ToS and with that comes the possibility of the CFAA.
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exDM69 10y ago
NASA yanked a lot of material away from their NTRS (NASA technical reports server) some years ago. A lot of research papers that I would have needed in my research were gone. I can find some of that stuff via Sci-Hub but not everything. At one point I was looking for a retracted paper and I even contacted my local (non-US) representative (the contact that was listed in NTRS) to try to get that paper, but they didn't even try to help me. A lot of the retracted papers were fundamental research dating back to the space race era. Glad to see more research being published but really, a lot of it was previously available but got yanked due to politics.
- thearn4 10y ago
  Interesting, I was not aware that they had done this!
gmiller123456 10y ago
>I'm actually curious what is new within this. As it stands, NASA research pre-prints are available on the tech reports server One big difference is that most journal will not allow papers to cite a pre-print paper. A lot of the pre-prints will have different names and differ slightly in content.

by thearn4 10y ago

CamperBob2 10y ago

After 9/11, when people were running around like decapitated chickens, a lot of useful government-funded (read: taxpayer-funded) documentation was pulled from sites like nist.gov. It has slowly been trickling back. This may be a similar case.

themartorana 10y ago
Overreaction is the calling card of not having learned from the past. In any case, would scraping sites like nist.gov and mirroring the information therein be considered illegal?
- cooper12 10y ago
  Works created by government employees as part of their official duties are in the public domain in the U.S. However, scraping might break some ToS and with that comes the possibility of the CFAA.

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exDM69 10y ago

NASA yanked a lot of material away from their NTRS (NASA technical reports server) some years ago. A lot of research papers that I would have needed in my research were gone. I can find some of that stuff via Sci-Hub but not everything. At one point I was looking for a retracted paper and I even contacted my local (non-US) representative (the contact that was listed in NTRS) to try to get that paper, but they didn't even try to help me. A lot of the retracted papers were fundamental research dating back to the space race era. Glad to see more research being published but really, a lot of it was previously available but got yanked due to politics.

thearn4 10y ago
Interesting, I was not aware that they had done this!

gmiller123456 10y ago

>I'm actually curious what is new within this. As it stands, NASA research pre-prints are available on the tech reports server One big difference is that most journal will not allow papers to cite a pre-print paper. A lot of the pre-prints will have different names and differ slightly in content.