> We have a perfect way of distributing papers - it is called "Publish it on your blog". If your blog is the most awesome blog or even just more awesome than th

> We have a perfect way of distributing papers - it is called "Publish it on your blog". If your blog is the most awesome blog or even just more awesome than the lousy blogs, the concerned scientists would go there. That would be an extremely worrying way of publishing, as there's no permanence. I regularly hit academic homepages for software or extra data that has now gone. There's also no DOI. Places like figshare ensure you get a DOI and that the public content is archived so that if they shut down, the data or paper is still available. https://figshare.com/blog/Ensuring_persistence_on_figshare/25 https://figshare.com/blog/Ensuring_persistence_on_figshare/2... Other services also offer this, look for CLOCKSS in relation to data storage or publishing. [disclaimer, work for Digital Science, who are a parent company to figshare]