Scattered all over The Nexus there are a huge number of scientific journal articles that have been posted, especially in the specific forum for Psychedelic-Related Journal Articles and the 'Request A Full Text or Reprint' forum.

Unfortunately, these are all posted randomly and many have now been buried under pages and pages of other replies.

What if we were to make a section of The Nexus with all of those articles arranged in some kind of order, so that researchers could seek out specific articles by topic and subject. We could post all the abstracts, like a sort of psychedelic PubMed.

It would be a lot of work, but we could end up with the largest library of psychedelic science articles anywhere, and, speaking as someone who is doing research into this stuff as part of my thesis (and hopefully later, PhD), that would be amazing.

Blessings
~ND

I've been promoting this idea for a while now. I also don't have the drive or desire to make it happen, but perhaps if we community effort, it wouldn't be so bad?

I like this idea, what would be really great is if it were possible to use your own login to save the threads you find interesting for further reference. I know this is a long shot, but many times I've found myself looking for old topics that I wanted to re-read.

A list is a good idea but as to downloads ....... what about issues with " copywrong " ?

Thanks for starting this topic ND, it is something that I have also been thinking about.

Regarding



I have made a suggestion to merge some of the request threads (although I might have missed a couple)



I don't mind tackling some of the grunt work behind this idea, although I'd first like to get a general consensus on the layout of the thread.

Some of my thoughts are:

- Would members prefer to have one thread dedicated to Requests and another hosting the Database?

- Would only the requested articles be uploaded or should all relevant articles be added to the database? Seeing as there are many members here doing research, there are a large no. of papers that could be uploaded.

- What would be the most logical and efficient format? Ordered alphabetically with out any sub-divisions? Or separated according to subject/type of writing (thesis, journal article etc)? Any other suggestions?

Suggestions and discussion are welcome!

Hey!

This is a great idea.

I wonder if the wiki format could serve somehow or if it would just make it harder to format it.

I think one possible good way to organize would be if this was made into some kind of Excel table, and have columns like: year, author, title, journal, subject, drug (and link to full paper)

or something of the sort.. That way people could just order the table alphabetically by any column they want. The question is how to integrate that table here, or if we just have it uploaded as an attached file or link, and then people can check it out that way...

As for 'requests' and 'uploads', I do think they should be kept separately.

Whatever way you guys decide to do it, go for it! Any effort in this area is very appreciated!

Endlessness: I was thinking that the Wiki could serve as a great place to store the articles. There could be pages that were essentially just download links and abstracts. We could get as precise or as general as we wanted, although I think more precise might be better (eg: a page like "Articles Related to Endogenous N,N-DMT Production," and "Articles Related to 5-HT2ARs and Mental Health," etc.

I don't know much about programming this kind of stuff, but if we had some kind of keyword system, we could build somethere where if I'm doing research into the effects of ketamine on serotonergic signaling in the brain (which is one of my current projects), I could type in '5-HT2A, ketamine, serotonin' and get the relevant articles out.

Once the whole thing is made, there could be some new mod positions like 'Nexus Librarian,' who's job it is to acquire new relevant articles and post them.

Blessings
~ND

This is starting to get a very complex very quickly, We don't really need to reinvent google scholar here.

I propose we begin simply, at the most obvious place to begin. Let's collect every article we can find regarding N-N,Dimethyltryptamine into one space by date published. Once collected, if someone wants to further go through and sort them and build a spreadsheet and so on that would be great, but let's start with something easily actionable.

The scale of this project can get out of hand very quickly, the thought of simply collecting all the articles regarding beta-carbolines into one space boggles the mind with it's sheer scale. This is thousands upon thousands of articles and weeks and weeks of work at minimum. So let's not get ahead of ourselves just yet.

I propose we create two threads, a work thread and a finalized thread. Here is a basic idea of the layout I'm thinking:

DMT

1930-1940
1931
article citation
*attached or unable to find
1932
article citation
*attached or unable to find
1933
article citation
*attached or unable to find
...

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New post

1940-1950
1941
article citation
*attached or unable to find
1942
article citation
*attached or unable to find
1943
article citation
*attached or unable to find
...

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New post

1950-1960
and so on...

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In the work thread people can add articles that were missed or upload articles that were unable to be found. The finalized thread will be locked and edited/updated as needed.

That's my basic idea for starting this thing, comments and critiques welcome.