[GOAL] New wiki for academic research summaries -- help contribute to open access!

[James W PITMAN]

While supportive in principle, I wonder why this effort should succeed after
acawiki  http://acawiki.org/Home
has been on life support for 6 years. See
http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2015/10/25/acawiki-non-summary/
for a recent account.

--Jim Pitman

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 5:22 AM, Brevy Org <brevyorg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone!
>
> I'm glad to have found this mailing list of the like-minded. Myself (Josh)
> and a small ragtag team are attempting another means of supporting open
> access endeavors and we need your help! We've recently launched:
>
> http://brevy.org
>
> which is a guided-interface wiki to collect summaries (and to some extent,
> discussion and critiques) of academic literature. Brevy handles a lot of
> things for you automatically, so it's easy to add a quick summary without
> any web/coding knowledge.
>
> To get this going, we really could use the help of the open access
> community to start populating the wiki with a pool of summaries. Here's a
> couple a couple of ways to help:
> * Add a summary of the most significant research in your field!
> * Assign making a summary as part of any courses you might teach (great
> way to introduce students to real research)
> * Pass this along to those who might be interested!
> * Share it on social media
>
> Thanks, and let me know if there's any questions :)
> -Josh over at Brevy
>
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