Offsystem is a new P2P-based repository for digital content. The system scrambles deposits and the download URL reassembles them. Deposits may be OA (if you share the download URL) or private (if you don't). From the site:
The OFFSYSTEM is the Owner Free File System....
As in any local File System, you can store and retrieve files. In the OFFSYSTEM is that done online, which means, any user having access to the internet, can store or upload and download own, foreign or public files.
All files, which you upload to the OFFSYSTEM, are [cut] into...small pieces, bits and bytes - we call them Blocks -, which are then stored by peer-to-peer-technology into the machines of other users....
So you can store as well your private files in the OFFSYSTEM, no peer will ever be able to read them....
You can imagine the OFFSYSTEM as a very big distributed hard disk: The vision of the OFFSYSTEM is to be the biggest online storage solution all over the world by a constantly growing peer-to-peer-network, supported by you and other users.Upload a file into the OFFSYSTEM in Asia, turn off the computer and download it from the OFFSYSTEM-network with another machine in America a few weeks later. The file will be still available in the OFFSYSTEM. That is the library of the future for any kind of media! And the access to the library is owned by the users, by you! - No central authority can keep you away from education or a visit in the library. The network is owner free....
Without the OFF-Url-Link, you cannot get any File out of the SYSTEM. Nor you can read any Block. That is also the reason, why any file stored in the offsystem is secure and safe and private: you can upload any private file into the OFFSYSTEM world library, and it stays private, as long as you do not give away the OFF-Url-Link, which is the key to your uploaded file....
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
