Can’t you filter the volunteers by first posting the list, then requiring that the people who want to work on any of the things mentioned e-mail you? My intuition would be that your current method filters out a disproportionate amount of people who would actually do things.
Actually, the single most valuable thing that anyone could do to boost my research productivity right now would be to email me [luke@intelligence.org] the username and password they use to download behind-paywall papers from home via their university’s proxy server. Somebody did this for me earlier but their account expired a few days ago (they had already graduated), and now the pace of my research is significantly hampered as a result.
Well, you have mine for what it’s worth. (I’m afraid I don’t really know much about the mechanics of database access- do you need to know the university name, or what?)
Edit: If anyone out there is in a good university with access to a lot of science databases, don’t hold off on my account.
Can’t you filter the volunteers by first posting the list, then requiring that the people who want to work on any of the things mentioned e-mail you? My intuition would be that your current method filters out a disproportionate amount of people who would actually do things.
Actually, the single most valuable thing that anyone could do to boost my research productivity right now would be to email me [luke@intelligence.org] the username and password they use to download behind-paywall papers from home via their university’s proxy server. Somebody did this for me earlier but their account expired a few days ago (they had already graduated), and now the pace of my research is significantly hampered as a result.
Well, you have mine for what it’s worth. (I’m afraid I don’t really know much about the mechanics of database access- do you need to know the university name, or what?)
Edit: If anyone out there is in a good university with access to a lot of science databases, don’t hold off on my account.
Yeah, thanks, your access is much better than nothing!
Is anyone at a major university feeling generous?