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

[Heather Morrison]

hi Jason,


Congratulations!!!


Comment: This is a VERY ambitious goal, even for an $850,000 project; this strikes me as Google-size ambition that calls for a Google-size budget (but I would be happy to be proved wrong).


Question: if this succeeds, what is the long-term business strategy? To date, developing interesting projects then selling to Elsevier seems to be the go-to business plan (Mendeley, SSRN, bepress, Plum Analytics...). What's your plan?


best,


Heather Morrison

Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa

Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa

Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca

https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/?lang=en#/members/706


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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 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 OA, but also on a set of AI-powered systems that help explain and contextualize articles, providing concept maps, automated plain-language translations (think automatic Simple Wikipedia<https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>), structured abstracts, and so on.

The goal is that by making the products of research accessible (in every sense of the word) to the public, we can help deliver on some of the bolder promises of OA to really transform knowledge.

More info is at http://gettheresearch.org. Would love to hear any criticisms, suggestions, and ideas!

Apologetically cross-postingly yours,
Jason

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Impactstory<http://impactstory.org/>: We make tools to power the Open Science revolution
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