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@@ -3,10 +3,14 @@ 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). |