I came upon this "petition" as i was looking for a search tool for a research-related app. Given the fact that most of the life sciences literature is behind p

I came upon this "petition" as i was looking for a search tool for a research-related app. Given the fact that most of the life sciences literature is behind paywalls, attempting to make your own search engine is very complicated and sometimes impossible. At best you can index abstracts and authors (and that's not easy). Google has the advantage of having been given access to almost all journals, and having the infrastructure ready. I hope they will remember their roots in research and come up with a small api for google scholar that research apps can utilize.