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This sadly is a common theme for academic databases. Many databases were running on funding money. And after the funding gone, so is the database
by leemailll 7y ago
This sadly is a common theme for academic databases. Many databases were running on funding money. And after the funding gone, so is the database
- btrettel 7y agoAcademics should make their databases easily archivable then. One thing I don't like about COS preprint sites is how much they rely on JavaScript. I'm not sure the Wayback Machine can archive them correctly. It might take a specialized bot. The Wayback Machine doesn't work right at all on one of my own COS preprints: https://web.archive.org/web/20200211103826/https://engrxiv.org/35u7g/ https://web.archive.org/web/20200211103826/https://engrxiv.o... Maybe I should contact ArchiveTeam...
- dhacks 7y agoI'm the director of engrXiv. It would be great to have a reliable archive of the server contents separate from COS. It would be pretty easy to scrape all of the files. There is a regularly updated CSV of all of the contents of engrXiv here: https://osf.io/ns9yr/ https://osf.io/ns9yr/ The files can be downloaded directly by adding '/download' to the engrxiv URL for each preprint.