Academic Torrents Explained

Owner:Institute for Reproducible Research
Country Of Origin:United States
Launch Date:2013
Industry:Non-profit
Current Status:Active

Academic Torrents[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] is a website which enables the sharing of research data using the BitTorrent protocol. The site was founded in November 2013, and is a project of the Institute for Reproducible Research (a 501(c)3 U.S. non-profit corporation).[7] [8] The project is said to be similar to LOCKSS but with a focus on "offering researchers the opportunity to distribute the hosting of their papers and datasets to authors and readers, providing easy access to scholarly works and simultaneously backing them up on computers around the world."[9] [10]

Notable datasets

Developing Human Connectome Project

The developing Human Connectome Project related to the Human Connectome Project uses the platform. "Researchers from three leading British institutions are using BitTorrent to share over 150 GB of unique high-resolution brain scans of unborn babies with colleagues worldwide... The researchers opted to go for the Academic Torrents tracker, which specializes in sharing research data"[11]

CrossRef metadata

The site hosts public metadata releases from Crossref which contain over 120+ million metadata records for scholarly work, each with a DOI. This was done so to allow the community to work with the entire database programmatically instead of using their API. "The sheer number of records means that, though anyone can use these records anytime, downloading them all via our APIs can be quite time-consuming. We hope this saves the research community valuable time during this crisis."[12] [13]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Miccoli . Fräntz . Academic Torrents: Bringing P2P Technology to the Academic World . MyScienceWork . 6 May 2020 . 2014 . 26 July 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200726233620/https://www.mysciencework.com/omniscience/academic-torrents-bringing-p2p-technology-to-the-academic-world . live .
  2. Web site: Ernesto . Academics Launch Torrent Site to Share Papers and Datasets . Torrent Freak . 6 May 2020 . 31 Jan 2014 . 28 May 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200528034652/https://torrentfreak.com/academics-launch-torrent-site-to-share-papers-and-datasets-140131/ . live .
  3. Web site: Cohen . Joseph Paul . What is Academic Torrents and Where is Data Sharing Going? . KDnuggets . 6 May 2020 . Oct 2016 . 8 June 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200608204442/https://www.kdnuggets.com/2016/10/academic-torrents-data-sharing.html . live .
  4. Web site: Bakshi . Kirti . Academic Torrents: A Distributed System For Sharing Enormous Datasets . TechLeer . 6 May 2020 . 18 Aug 2018 . 22 September 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200922075553/https://www.techleer.com/articles/545-academic-torrents-a-distributed-system-for-sharing-enormous-datasets/ . live .
  5. Book: Cohen . Joseph . Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment . Academic Torrents: A Community-Maintained Distributed Repository . July 2014 . 1–2 . 10.1145/2616498.2616528 . 9781450328937 . 5813384 .
  6. Lo . Henry . Academic Torrents: Scalable Data Distribution . Neural Information Processing Systems Challenges in Machine Learning (CiML) Workshop . 14 Mar 2016 . 1603.04395 .
  7. Web site: Institute for Reproducible Research Webpage . 4 May 2020 . 17 January 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230117212702/https://reproducibilityinstitute.org/w/ . live .
  8. Web site: Tax Exempt Organization Search . 4 May 2020 . United States IRS.
  9. Web site: Chant . Ian . Academic Torrents Offers New Means of Storing, Distributing Scholarly Content . Library Journal . 4 May 2020 . 13 Feb 2014 . 7 May 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210507000744/https://www.libraryjournal.com/?detailStory=academic-torrents-offers-new-means-of-storing-distributing-scholarly-content . live .
  10. Web site: Turk . Victoria . A Torrent Site Wants to Be the New Academic Library . Vice News . 4 May 2020 . 3 Feb 2014 . 25 September 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200925223846/https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vvbmax/a-torrent-site-wants-to-be-the-new-academic-library . live .
  11. Web site: Ernesto . Torrents Help Researchers Worldwide to Study Babies' Brains . TorrentFreak . 6 May 2020 . 3 June 2017 . 5 January 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180105011741/https://torrentfreak.com/torrents-help-researchers-worldwide-to-study-babies-brains-170603/ . live .
  12. Web site: jkcrossref. Free public data file of 112+ million Crossref records. 2021-05-22. Crossref. en. 2021-05-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20210522170844/https://www.crossref.org/blog/free-public-data-file-of-112-million-crossref-records/. live.
  13. Web site: jkcrossref. New public data file: 120+ million metadata records. 2021-05-22. Crossref. en. 2021-05-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20210522170844/https://www.crossref.org/blog/new-public-data-file-120-million-metadata-records/. live.

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