Scholars are increasingly using a wide variety of online portals to conduct aspects of their research and to convey research results. These portals exist outside of the established scholarly publishing system and can be dedicated to scholarly use, such as myexperiment.org, or general purpose, such as GitHub and SlideShare. The combination of productivity features and global exposure offered by these portals is attractive to researchers and they happily deposit scholarly artifacts there. Most often, institutions are not even aware of the existence of these artifacts created by their researchers. More importantly, no infrastructure exists to systematically and comprehensively archive them, and the platforms that host them rarely provide archival guarantees; many times quite the opposite.
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