# Summary of #hplusroadmap IRC Log (Nov 5, 2011)

- A discussion occurred about academic paper sharing methods, with users recommending the Reddit community r/scholar as an effective resource for obtaining paywalled scientific articles, noting that requests are typically fulfilled within hours.

- Kanzure expressed interest in automating academic paper retrieval, suggesting a combination of PyScholar, PhantomJS, and Zotero's JavaScript-based PDF scrapers to create a tool that could automatically extract bibliographic data and PDFs from publisher websites.

- Zotero was discussed as a Firefox plugin for scraping bibliographic data from academic websites, with particular mention of its "translators" (JavaScript-based scrapers) and its ability to download PDFs from publisher sites.

- A user shared a GitHub repository link to Zotero's translation-server (https://github.com/zotero/translators), which contains code for extracting metadata from academic websites.

- One participant mentioned working on "cheap near IR birefringent single crystals," indicating ongoing research in optics or materials science within the community.