[GOAL] Re: Publications managed by scholarly communities/institutions

[Peter Murray-Rust]

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Jan Velterop <velterop at gmail.com> wrote:

> No, 27,995 still to be converted :-)
>
> Jan
>
> No,
    27995 - x
where x is the number of new people working in an extended community mode.
The 250,000 people who have helped to create Open Street Map and get it
accepted as among the highest quality and most useful cartographic product
didn't come from old-school cartographers. They came from all walks,
including cyclists and walkers. Wikipedia didn't come from converted
academics, it came from people outside academia and encyclopedias. Academia
(with a very few exceptions) howled it down and it has succeeded in spite.
(It will, whether we like it or not, become a mainstream component of
scientific communication). In similar mode there will be a new type of
scholarly communication.

P.



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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
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