Re: [GOAL] Announcing: $850k grant from Arcadia Fund to build new scholarly search engine for public

2018-07-12 Thread Jason Priem
Thanks for the feedback, y'all! It's so awesome that folks in scholcomm are beginning to ask questions about who new services are coming from, the values behind those services, and how we can make sure those values are persistent. Let me take a stab at answering those questions for our new

Re: [GOAL] Announcing: $850k grant from Arcadia Fund to build new scholarly search engine for public

2018-07-11 Thread Christian Pietsch
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 10:30:36PM +0100, Ross Mounce wrote: > It’s funny you mention Google, as Google Scholar was also started by just > two people ( source: > https://www.nature.com/news/google-scholar-pioneer-on-search-engine-s-future-1.16269 > ). It’s an apt comparison in that respect. Even

Re: [GOAL] Announcing: $850k grant from Arcadia Fund to build new scholarly search engine for public

2018-07-10 Thread Ross Mounce
Tuesday, July 10, 2018 11:38 AM > *To:* goal@eprints.org > *Subject:* [GOAL] Announcing: $850k grant from Arcadia Fund to build new > scholarly search engine for public > > Hi all, > Thought you might be interested in this new OA project! > > This scholarly search engi

Re: [GOAL] Announcing: $850k grant from Arcadia Fund to build new scholarly search engine for public

2018-07-10 Thread Heather Morrison
: $850k grant from Arcadia Fund to build new scholarly search engine for public Hi all, Thought you might be interested in this new OA project! This scholarly search engine will be a little different than the (many) already out there: it's aimed at a nonspecialist audience of citizen scientists

[GOAL] Announcing: $850k grant from Arcadia Fund to build new scholarly search engine for public

2018-07-10 Thread Jason Priem
Hi all, Thought you might be interested in this new OA project! This scholarly search engine will be a little different than the (many) already out there: it's aimed at a nonspecialist audience of citizen scientists, patients, K-12 teachers, and so on. To do that we'll need to rely not just on