[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] Fwd: New Webinar@AIMS: ORCID -The Open Researcher Contributor ID

2014-09-03 Thread Thembani Malapela
ANNOUNCEMENT at http://aims.fao.org/community/agris/blogs/new-webinaraims-orcid-open-researcher-contributor-id http://aims.fao.org/community/agris/blogs/new-webinaraims-orcid-open-researcher-contributor-id The AIMS team is pleased to announce the webinar “ORCID http://orcid.org/ -The Open

[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] FOSTER - Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research - renewed web presence

2014-09-03 Thread Eloy Rodrigues
Apologies for cross posting FOSTER proudly announces that, as of today, the Open Access and Open Science communities will benefit two-fold from our freshly designed new web presencehttp://www.fosteropenscience.eu/. First off: the renewed FOSTER project website now features various

[GOAL] Pilot: OAPEN and Jisc Collections will set up an OA monograph service

2014-09-03 Thread Ronald Snijder
** Jisc Collections - OAPEN project for OA monograph services OAPEN is pleased to announce a new pilot project in partnership with Jisc Collections, to co-design and set up a centralised service with UK universities to support and

[GOAL] Re: The Open Access Interviews: Paul Royster, Coordinator of Scholarly Communications, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

2014-09-03 Thread Jean-Claude Guédon
It seems to me that, in definitional discussions, we should clearly distinguish between ultimate objectives and intermediate steps. The definitions crafted back in 2001-3 were certainly imperfect, if only because much had yet to be understood and discovered at that time. Yet, they did include

[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: The Open Access Interviews: Paul Royster, Coordinator of Scholarly Communications, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

2014-09-03 Thread Heather Morrison
Jean-Claude, What you say (beautifully), I almost completely agree with. However, I would like to point out that the original BOAI begins with a vision, and that the vision is different from the definition. Here is what the BOAI vision: An old tradition and a new technology have converged to

[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