This service is designed to facilitate storage of all the data used in research, including datasets as well as publications. There are many advantages of using bittorrent technology to disseminate this work.
- Distributed storage and content delivery provided by anyone. Files can be securely downloaded from other users of the system. They can share the file for a day or a year.
- Mirroring the content can be done from a desktop computer anywhere. Everyone surrounding this computer will have local access to the data automatically and securely.
- Bundles of files, not just papers, or any size can be disseminated in this way as long as at least one person can become a seed for that data.
Torrent technology allows a group of editors to "seed" their own peer-reviewed published articles with just a torrent client. Each editor can have part or all of the papers stored on their desktops and have a torrent tracker to coordinate the delivery of papers without a dedicated server. + One aim of this site is to create the infrastructure to allow open access journals to operate at low cost. By facilitating file transfers, the journal can focus on it's core mission of providing world class research. After peer review the paper can be indexed on this site and diseminated throughout our system.
+ Large dataset delivery can be supported by researchers in the field that have the dataset on their machine. A popular large dataset doesn't need to be housed centrally. Researchers can have part of the dataset they are working on and they can help host it together.
+ Libraries can host this data to host papers from their own campus without becoming the only source of the data. So even if a library's system is broken other universities can participate in getting that data into the hands of researchers.
http://academictorrents.com/
