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*** Spoiler Alert > Possible Duplicate Posting *** Colleagues/ Looks Promising ... /Gerry Researchers from the University of Massachusetts have launched a torrent site which allows academics to share papers and datasets. AcademicTorrents provides researchers with a reliable and decentralized platform to share their work with peers, as well as the rest of the world. [snip] The site was launched by Joseph Cohen and Henry Lo, two PhD students working at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. The torrent site aims to provide academics with a cheap and decentralized platform to share their work and data with the rest of the world. AcademicTorrents allows researchers to upload datasets, articles and other research material. The site runs it own tracker and supports web-seeds as well, which guarantee that files are available at all times. [more] >>> Thanks to Tara Penelope Calishain <<< Source and Link Available Via: [ http://scholarship20.blogspot.com/2014/02/academictorrents.html ] /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University 150 Parks Library Ames IA 50011