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Crane is a literature download and organization web service with support for
paper download and metadata retrieval.
+Paper and metadata download is possible for (nearly) every open-access journal
+which satisfies citation HTML <meta> tags, journals supported by sci-hub, and
+direct download links.
+
Goals of the project are to be minimal, support data portability (no databases
or app-proprietary formats), and secure. Paper "categories" are simply
-directories created on the filesystem, and paper metadata is taken directly from
-the [doi.org](https://www.doi.org/) API and written verbatim.
+directories created on the filesystem, and paper metadata is derived from
+[doi.org](https://www.doi.org/) or <meta> tags and written to disk as XML.
A screenshot of the admin interface can be [found here](screenshots/admin.png).