[GOAL] Re: Fwd: [open-science] PeerLibrary is searching for volunteers

[Heather Morrison]

On 2014-09-03, at 12:38 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk<mailto:pm286 at cam.ac.uk>>  wrote:

Mendeley is not behind PeerLibrary. Aspersions of this sort should be checked.

My response: when I looked, the Mendeley logo was on the "about" page. Mitar on this list, who appears to be speaking on behalf of PeerLibrary, confirms this: "to satisfy their attribution requirement we put the logo on the about page". I submit that if a company's logo is included on the about page of a service, it is a reasonable assumption that the company is involved.

This may be an illustration of a problem with the "attribution" element of CC licenses. What constitutes attribution varies substantially in different communities. For example, one argument that I have heard for CC-BY for scholarly works is so that these works can be included in Wikipedia. This is correct from a licensing perspective. However, the attribution practices of scholarly works (attribution of elements such as author, journal, publisher) and Wikipedia (attribution of Wikipedia with authors being anonymous) are essentially incompatible. In other words, the "BY" of two CC-BY licensed works is not necessarily compatible.

best,

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