While supportive in principle, I wonder why this effort should succeed after acawiki http://acawiki.org/Home has been on life support for 6 years. See http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2015/10/25/acawiki-non-summary/ for a recent account.
--Jim Pitman On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 5:22 AM, Brevy Org <brevy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone! > > I'm glad to have found this mailing list of the like-minded. Myself (Josh) > and a small ragtag team are attempting another means of supporting open > access endeavors and we need your help! We've recently launched: > > http://brevy.org > > which is a guided-interface wiki to collect summaries (and to some extent, > discussion and critiques) of academic literature. Brevy handles a lot of > things for you automatically, so it's easy to add a quick summary without > any web/coding knowledge. > > To get this going, we really could use the help of the open access > community to start populating the wiki with a pool of summaries. Here's a > couple a couple of ways to help: > * Add a summary of the most significant research in your field! > * Assign making a summary as part of any courses you might teach (great > way to introduce students to real research) > * Pass this along to those who might be interested! > * Share it on social media > > Thanks, and let me know if there's any questions :) > -Josh over at Brevy > > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal > > -- ---------------------------------------------- Jim Pitman Professor of Statistics and Mathematics University of California 367 Evans Hall # 3860 Berkeley, CA 94720-3860 ph: 510-642-9970 fax: 510-642-7892 e-mail: pit...@stat.berkeley.edu URL: http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/users/pitman
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