Marcin, of course there is room for new services, particularly taking advantage of the potential of the internet, and at a quick glance, TunedIT looks promising.
What I am wondering is why new services and companies should not build through voluntary participation rather than seeking public policy requiring scholars to make their work available for such purposes? I don't see a compelling public interest here, and I'm wondering if this is even a sound business strategy. Scholars are flocking to new services like Mendeley, Academia.edu, Research Gate, and Google Scholar because they find the services useful. best, Heather Morrison On 2013-01-29, at 5:08 AM, Marcin Wojnarski wrote: > On 01/28/2013 10:44 PM, Heather Morrison wrote: >> Question: are you saying that allowing any third party to make use of a >> scholar's work to advertise their own products and/or to sell their >> advertising services is one of the reasons people are advocating for CC-BY? > > I don't know exactly why people are advocating for CC-BY. Maybe they realize > that every website and every service needs some source of funding to survive, > so if scholars want new - and free - academic services to appear on the web, > there must be a way for these services to make a living, and allowing them to > sell adverts is one of the ways to support them and let them survive. > > But maybe scholars don't want new services at all. Maybe they are perfectly > fine with what exists today: Elsevier, Springer and the rest of mafia? In > such case, -NC doesn't hurt indeed. > > Best, > Marcin > > -- > Marcin Wojnarski, Founder and CEO, TunedIT > http://tunedit.org > http://www.facebook.com/TunedIT > http://twitter.com/TunedIT > http://www.linkedin.com/in/marcinwojnarski > > TunedIT - Online Laboratory for Intelligent Algorithms > _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
