[GOAL] Re: Fwd: [open-science] PeerLibrary is searching for volunteers

2014-09-03 Thread Mitar
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

[GOAL] Re: Fwd: [open-science] PeerLibrary is searching for volunteers

2014-09-03 Thread Heather Morrison
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

[GOAL] Re: Fwd: [open-science] PeerLibrary is searching for volunteers

2014-09-03 Thread Peter Murray-Rust
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Heather Morrison heather.morri...@uottawa.ca wrote: I'd be interested in hearing what people think of PeerLibrary. 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. I'm

[GOAL] Re: Fwd: [open-science] PeerLibrary is searching for volunteers

2014-09-03 Thread Heather Morrison
On 2014-09-03, at 12:38 PM, Peter Murray-Rust pm...@cam.ac.ukmailto:pm...@cam.ac.uk wrote: Mendeley is not behind PeerLibrary. Aspersions of this sort should be checked. My response: when I looked, the Mendeley logo was on the about page. Mitar on this list, who appears to be speaking on

[GOAL] Re: Fwd: [open-science] PeerLibrary is searching for volunteers

2014-09-03 Thread Mitar
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

[GOAL] Re: Fwd: [open-science] PeerLibrary is searching for volunteers

2014-09-03 Thread Mitar
Hi! On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Heather Morrison heather.morri...@uottawa.ca wrote: My response: when I looked, the Mendeley logo was on the about page. Mitar on this list, who appears to be speaking on behalf of PeerLibrary, confirms this: to satisfy their attribution requirement we put