On 12/30/13 2:39 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote:
ResearchGate is a startup from Berlin, they try to make a Facebook for
scientists. Bill Gates has invested in the company, as far as I know.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ResearchGate
This looks a lot like our own Marko Rodriguez
<http://markorodriguez.com/>'s (now-defunct) startup "Knowledge
Reef"... I don't believe Marko is on our mail list (Marko?) but I'm
pretty sure he still lives just down the road from me. Josh or Stephen
may know?
While his core interest is in Graph theory/modeling/DBs and the Web of
Data, etc... Knowledge Reef was originally Conceived to cover a lot of
the space that ResearchGate is trying to now... perhaps if Gates had
invested in K-Reef?
Marko's Titan, Faunus, TinkerPop are all interesting tools to check out
if you are in the graph DB/Analytics business.
-J.
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-------- Original message --------
From: Nick Thompson
Date:30/12/2013 07:41 (GMT+01:00)
To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Where was I when this was happening?
Roger,
Thanks for your response. I do remember the Gower thing, and found it
quite inspiring at the time, but I think I separated it from the
Darrell Issa thing. Gawd that man is a plague.
As to the broader issue, have you had any truck with Research Gate? I
ignored it for a while, and then got lured in by its promise of making
publications available. Is Research Gate possibly a way to break the
grip of publishers? I wouldn't mind if the amounts they charge were
in any way proportional to the effort they put in, but 30 bucks for a
glimpse of an article concerning which they have done nothing, is just
absurd. RG is trying to get people to archive their own stuff with
them, so when the publishers begin suing, they will have to sue a lot
of people and the individuals suits won't be worth much. Damages very
hard to prove. It's kind of the reverse of a class action suit.
Anyway, thanks again for your answer.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
<http://home.earthlink.net/%7Enickthompson/naturaldesigns/>
*From:*Friam [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Roger
Critchlow
*Sent:* Sunday, December 29, 2013 10:57 PM
*To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
*Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Where was I when this was happening?
I think that you knew about it, Owen posted back at the beginning of 2012:
Timothy Gowers the Fields medalist mathematician has a recent post
on Elsevier and a growing movement to boycott their use
http://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/elsevier-my-part-in-its-downfall/
This includes not submitting to the VERY MANY math journals owned
by Elsevier:
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/P11.cws_home/mathjournals
.. or reviewing submissions
Timothy Gowers' boycott of Elsevier came up on the list before, it
was motivated by Elsevier's support for that very bill, you
responded on the thread.
That boycott was inspired by the political contributions Elsevier made
to buy the passage of the Research Works Act. Most of the rest of the
thread, which you participated in, discussed the costs of publishing
without ever mentioning Elsevier's lobbying costs.
-- rec --
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 8:30 PM, Nick Thompson
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
JeeeZ. And to think they almost did this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Works_Act
Did everybody but me know about this?
N
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
<http://home.earthlink.net/%7Enickthompson/naturaldesigns/>
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