[GOAL] Re: Paperity launched. The 1st multidisciplinary aggregator of OA journals & papers

[Marcin Wojnarski]

Dear Stevan,

We started with Gold, because we believe that journals play a 
fundamental role in the system of scholarly communication and every 
service that tries to facilitate access to literature must start with 
journals, not only with a flat collection of papers like the one found 
in repositories. For 400 years, journals have been the backbone of the 
system, the main structural element. They provide a brand name for 
papers, create consistent editoral policy and take responsibility for 
the quality and relevance of articles they publish - these features are 
of topmost importance for readers, without them navigating through 
millions of articles becomes infeasible.

That said, we're fully aware how much great unique content there is in 
repositories and we'd like very much to merge these two streams - Gold 
and Green - in Paperity at some point. Although there are some tensions 
inside OA community between the Gold and Green camps, I think they are 
unjustified, because these routes are complementary, not competitive. As 
to indexing, it is actually much easier to be done for repositories than 
for journals, because most repos expose standardized interfaces. So we 
don't need Google Scholar for this purpose, only as I said, we believe 
that the right order is journals first.

Best
Marcin


On 10/12/2014 01:51 PM, Stevan Harnad wrote:
> Harvesting Gold OA journal articles is a piece of cake. How will 
> Paperity/redex harvest
> Green OA articles published in non-OA journals but made OA somewhere 
> on the
> Web — via Google Scholar?
>
> Sounds like a splendid idea if it can be done… But not if it is just 
> Gold-biassed,
> because most refereed research is not Gold, and the fastest growing 
> form of
> OA is Green (because of mandates, and absence of extra cost).
>
> SH
>


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