User:Bluerasberry/lost research

Lost academic publishing is any academic publishing which somehow becomes a lost literary work.

An August 2020 analysis found that from 2000-2019, publishers had folded and failed to archive 176 journals from diverse disciplines.

The LOCKSS project seeks to collaborate with universities to archive publications.

The Internet Archive (IA) has a unique collection of academic publications which would otherwise be lost due to the closing of their original web publishing platforms. However, according to an analysis by the Internet Archive "18 per cent of all open access articles since 1945, over three million, are not independently archived by us or another preservation organization, other than the publishers themselves" and many papers of the vanished 176 journals were not archived by the IA. Sci-Hub does academic archiving outside the bounds of contemporary copyright law and also provides access to academic works which have no legal route to accessibility.

Some of the scientific research output is not located at the scientific journals' websites but on other sites like source-code repositories such as GitLab. Academic publications themselves may contain lost components, such as due to link rot.