I like keeping up with emerging research in multiple fields, such as biology, physics, and computer science. Yet, most of the research I find out about is from news sources or aggregators, such as NYT or HN.<p>I am thinking about creating a free service where I send you one academic paper everyday by email. The user will select what fields he or she is interested in, and I will email a paper from one of those fields.<p>A potential problem is that a lot of academic papers are behind paywalls, but I still think there are enough freely available research papers to make this service viable.<p>Are there any services like this that you are aware of? Would you be interested, and if so what would you want in such a service?<p>Thanks!
I would like such a service, but don't know enough about what I find interesting to make use of it.<p>Most comp sci stuff bores me, though some is fascinating. Due to the nature of the field, it may be hard to set keywords to find things of interest.<p>Other fields, such as history, are different. Right now I'm writing a book about a certain region's history. I'd like to be able to set a geographical limit, like, "every new paper regarding history within such-and-such a region", and then get alerts. In addition, even better would be geographically matching foreign-language journals (I'm thinking China, eg. <a href="http://www.kaogu.cn/" rel="nofollow">http://www.kaogu.cn/</a>)<p>Another thought: disconnect your thinking/pitch from email, it's just one delivery option within phone/web/email/rss/sms/xmpp/facebook/twitter/whatever.
No. My backlog of to-read academic papers is long enough already, and I'm not keeping up with what I get. (I felt like I should interject some negativism ;)
> Are there any services like this that you are aware of?<p>I get some magazines/journals with my ACM membership, which are a mix of articles and selected research papers each month.<p>At only $99/year (student discount available) for membership and the monthly print magazine, it's quite affordable.<p><a href="http://www.acm.org/publications" rel="nofollow">http://www.acm.org/publications</a>
Yes, Interested.<p>1. Receiving as daily email - will not prefer it instead would be interested in a weekly digest mail of top list (should also be section seperated)<p>2. Some way of intelligent sorting of good papers would be interesting
I think this is a interesting idea. A Facebook friend posted every day a paper about computer science for about 1 month. He said that he got a lot of positive feedback.
sure, i would be interested. i'd like a short (3 sentences?) summary explaining why the paper is interesting and a pdf.<p>you can often find preprints on people's web sites even when the final paper is behind a paywall. and sometimes if you email the author they will send you a copy.
I only really read papers that relate to my field (storage systems, databases, distributed systems, etc). The other stuff might be interesting but I just don't have the time to really focus on it. I also tend to take a more "pull" approach to papers-- if the title or the abstract doesn't seem interesting, I won't read it. There's just way too many out there.<p>If you were somehow able to curate the list and present "the most important papers of 2012 for field X", it might be interesting. That's kind of what journals are supposed to do, I guess. I suppose you could consider your effort a kind of virtual journal then :)