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Firstauthor.org wrote on its page "The utility of file sharing for collating academic information is being increasingly acknowledged. A UN declaration from the Civil Society Science Information Working Group stated that peer-to-peer networks should be promoted as a means 'to share scientific knowledge and pre-prints and reprints written by scientific authors who have waived their right to payment'

One of the first attempts to put this declaration into practice on a multi-institutional level comes from LionShare. LionShare is a project of the Pennsylvania State University and is developing its software in collaboration with the open source authentication project, Shibboleth,  Open Knowledge Project, researchers at Simon Fraser University and the Peer to Peer Working Group. "...

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