[Link] Malamud’s General Index: Research Gist, No Slap On The Wrist

Read: 7/11/2021 hackaday.com

Tired of that unsettling feeling you get from looking for paywalled papers on that one site that shall not be named? Yeah, us too. But now there’s an alternative that should feel a little less illegal: this new index of the world’s research papers over on the Internet Archive.

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[Link] A Treasure Trove of Furry History Is Available on the Internet Archive

Read: 4/11/2021 www.vice.com

The Internet Archive is full of gifts: malware museums, secret public domain books, random VHS tape collections, basically any esoteric interest you can think of, there's probably an archive collection of it, built by volunteers who are just really into that thing.

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[Link] Archivists Create a Searchable Index of 107 Million Science Articles

Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com

The General Index is here to serve as your map to all human knowledge. Pulled from 107,233,728 journal articles, The General Index is a searchable collection of keywords and short sentences from published papers that can serve as a map to the paywalled domains of scientific knowledge.

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[Link] Wayback Machine’s 485 billion web pages blocked by Russian government order

Read: 5/10/2021 arstechnica.com

The Internet Archive—including its Wayback Machine, which currently stores 485 billion snapshots of the world's web pages at different dates—is inaccessible for some users in Russia, as a post on the Global Voices site explains.

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