How a statistical approach cut IPFS content publishing times by over one order of magnitude.
IPFS is moving beyond the sponsored gateways
How IPFS is shifting from centralized public gateways to distributed infrastructure and client-side retrieval.
Introducing Filebase Sites: Simplified IPFS Websites with IPNS
Hosting a real website on IPFS has always come with friction: changing CIDs, manual IPNS management, and fragile workflows. Filebase Sites removes the last-mile complexity, giving developers a simple way to publish, update, and maintain decentralized websites without breaking links.
IPFS: A Complete Analysis of The Distributed Web
In our recent comprehensive analysis, we discuss Interplanetary File System (IPFS). This article summarizes the reasons that excite us…
IPFS — Content addressing for data with confidence
IPFS gives developers content addressing building blocks for verifiable, portable, and resilient applications across open networks
What's IPFS and how it compares to BitTorrent - Daniel Norman
What's IPFS and how it compares to BitTorrent
Build a Versioning System With IPFS and Blockstack
There are so many great use cases for versioning. Handling code deployments, document edits, and database snapshots are just a few…
Decentralized Technology in Practice: An analysis of socio-technical resilience in IPFS
The “Interplanetary File System” (IPFS) refers to a peer-to-peer content addressing protocol that is designed to be “upgradeable, resilient, and more open”. [1]
The end of IPFS at Shipyard
We have some difficult news to share with the IPFS and wider peer-to-peer community. Our IPFS funding was cancelled
Stanford Seminar - IPFS and the Permanent Web
The Centralized Secret
How Ethereum dApps rely on centralized IPFS hosting out of necessity
IPFS as a first-class citizen in FFmpeg, who’s next?
The first steps in enabling IPFS support in the wider open source ecosystem.
Why is decentralized and distributed file storage critical for a better web?
The team behind IPFS and Filecoin explain how advances in distributed data storage and strong alignment of market incentives are combining to create a much more secure and efficient web.
The strain on scientific publishing
Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published. Total articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science have grown exponentially in recent years; in 2022 the article total was approximately ~47% higher than in 2016, which has outpaced the limited growth - if any - in the number of practising scientists. Thus, publication workload per scientist (writing, reviewing, editing) has increased dramatically. We define this problem as the strain on scientific publishing. To analyse this strain, we present five data-driven metrics showing publisher growth, processing times, and citation behaviours. We draw these data from web scrapes, requests for data from publishers, and material that is freely available through publisher websites. Our findings are based on millions of papers produced by leading academic publishers. We find specific groups have disproportionately grown in their articles published per year, contributing to this strain. Some publishers enabled this growth by adopting a strategy of hosting special issues, which publish articles with reduced turnaround times. Given pressures on researchers to publish or perish to be competitive for funding applications, this strain was likely amplified by these offers to publish more articles. We also observed widespread year-over-year inflation of journal impact factors coinciding with this strain, which risks confusing quality signals. Such exponential growth cannot be sustained. The metrics we define here should enable this evolving conversation to reach actionable solutions to address the strain on scientific publishing.
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