[educating]

There should be the equivalent of wikileaks for scientific papers- a site where you can anonymously post them and their abstract. While I understand someone has to pay for hosting, archiving, validation- people should be allowed to view things like this freely. Otherwise, what is the point of research you wish to share with the public? Even viewing the paper as images with watermarks would be better than nothing.

[sambeau]

Great young men have thought alike:

http://ia600808.us.archive.org/17/items/GuerillaOpenAccessMa...

sigh

[mistercow]

My understanding is that many journals embed metadata about you when you download the full text of an article. If that's true, it would be crucial to make sure that it got stripped automatically when uploaded to such a site.

[derefr]

I don't know about anonymously -- why not just the centuries-old library model? We pay for an organization; the organization licenses the works; the organization lends out the works for free.

[tekacs]

The current problem being that subscribed to an institution which has a library with the funds to pay for these things is currently either expensive or hard to get oneself affiliated with without lots of requirements and quirks. :/

I have access through my home institution, but I'm already dreading being suddenly cut-off from all of this information when I leave :/ - the idea that upon leaving the institution my ability or willingness to read existing content and contribute back should disappear is bothersome, to say the least.

[kaybe]

Many authors in physics, mathematics and others post a pre-print version of their papers to http://arxiv.org/.

[dredmorbius]

http://reddit.com/r/scholar