Popular preprint servers face closure because of money troubles

Re:Popular preprint servers face closure because of money tr... by leemailll on Thursday February 13, 2020 @09:35AM (#22317988)

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

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Re:Popular preprint servers face closure because of money tr... by btrettel on Thursday February 13, 2020 @11:19AM (#22318882)

Academics 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.o...

Maybe I should contact ArchiveTeam...

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Re:Popular preprint servers face closure because of money tr... by dhacks on Sunday February 16, 2020 @11:46AM (#22342344)

I'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/

The files can be downloaded directly by adding '/download' to the engrxiv URL for each preprint.

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