Hi! Mitar here. One of contributors to the PeerLibrary project. I would like to address comments made about the project.
> My own perspective is that the user name "general crap" (I'm not making this > up, it's copied from the PeerLibrary collection) says it all. :-) Names of collections can be made by any user. This is the idea behind community operated site. Maybe names reflect the site, maybe the content in the collection. Who knows. ;-) The site is still in development so I would agree that some parts of it are like that. But, this is a normal thing when one is trying to build a free software alternative to current closed platforms. Not everything can be done well immediately. But if you have more concrete feedback to give us, please. We love feedback (both positive or negative) so that we can guide our development. It is free software (AGPL licensed) and you can also open tickets (we prefer tickets so that they are archived as part of the development process and that the community can be involved in them, but I would not want to move discussion away from this list and this community): https://github.com/peerlibrary/peerlibrary > It might be worth noting that one of the partners behind PeerLibrary, > Mendeley, is owned by Elsevier. Just to be clear. PeerLibrary is completely independent project from Mendeley. We are planing to use their API so that users can access their data they have made in Mendeley with an open platform. And their API license is CC-BY, so to satisfy their attribution requirement we put the logo on the about page, just to be clear of any issues, not wanting to argue if their data can be CC-BY licensed at all to being with. Because this feature is not yet implemented at all and because it is signaling the wrong message (as I am seeing), I have removed logo for now: https://github.com/peerlibrary/peerlibrary/commit/c031be9fecdb1a349a20d622e831a6f1df5c209d Thank you for pointing it out. If you are interested in learning more about the team and motivations behind the project, I am inviting you to see this video we made: https://vimeo.com/93085636 Mitar -- http://mitar.tnode.com/ https://twitter.com/mitar_m _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
