# Summary of #hplusroadmap IRC Log (Oct 30, 2013)

* A Knife-Edge Scanning Microscope Brain Atlas was shared (http://kesm.cs.tamu.edu/index.php?select=v1), which appears to be a resource for high-resolution brain imaging data.

* Discussion about Sci-Hub and academic paper access occurred, with participants noting that the service was down to 11 ezproxies (from a previous 50) and strategizing about recruiting college students with institutional access.

* A participant requested and received access to a scientific paper through Sci-Hub (http://sci-hub.org/pdfcache/02c68c99b876ffd0afbf99a3fa849596.pdf), with discussion about the relationship between PMIDs and DOIs.

* An interesting philosophical discussion emerged about hiring people to serve as "additional working memory" for professionals, with debate about whether this could be effectively accomplished with better digital tools.

* A technical discussion about PDF manipulation tools took place, with kanzure expressing frustration with the lack of good open-source PDF writing libraries and mentioning the need to develop several parsers/generators including for PDF format, Z80 assembly, and generic binary parsing.