Hi! Sorry, because I am not familiar with the discussion about CC-BY requirement for OA. Can you summarize it or link to a relevant discussion for me to get up to the speed? Is this a discussion about OA also having to allow also reuse of papers and no just gratis access? Does CC-BY discussion differs from CC-SA-BY discussion? Or CC-0 zero discussion?
> If OA advocates are pushing for policies requiring CC-BY to facilitate the > development of initiatives like PeerLibrary, that is a different matter. This > is one of the reasons I oppose policies requiring CC-BY. You are saying that you are opposing initiatives which would make papers more accessible to the general public and try to organize them through a community effort? Thank you for explaining your questions about PeerLibrary, they were not clear to me from your previous e-mail. Mitar On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 5:48 AM, Heather Morrison <heather.morri...@uottawa.ca> wrote: > Thank you for your comments, Mitar. My question has more to do with whether > some in the open access community see this kind of initiative as the purpose > of OA, and the justification for efforts to force all scholars and open > access journals to use the CC-BY. > > If this is the point of CC-BY, then I think we need to have a discussion > about the implications and desirability of this kind of project. > > If people wish to voluntarily participate in PeerLibrary or similar projects, > that is their right. > > If OA advocates are pushing for policies requiring CC-BY to facilitate the > development of initiatives like PeerLibrary, that is a different matter. This > is one of the reasons I oppose policies requiring CC-BY. > > best, > > Heather Morrison > > > >> On Sep 3, 2014, at 2:28 AM, "Mitar" <mmi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal -- http://mitar.tnode.com/ https://twitter.com/mitar_m _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
