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

[Ross Mounce]

Hi Heather,

Good to meet you in Toronto recently for ELPUB.

It’s funny you mention Google, as Google Scholar was also started by just
two people ( source:
https://www.nature.com/news/google-scholar-pioneer-on-search-engine-s-future-1.16269
). It’s an apt comparison in that respect. Even today I believe the
entirety of the Google Scholar team is just 3 people.

I’ll let Jason respond to the rest, but I couldn’t resist chiming in with
that.

Kind regards,

Ross

On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 at 18:31, Heather Morrison <Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca>
wrote:

> 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
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* goal-bounces at eprints.org <goal-bounces at eprints.org> on behalf of
> Jason Priem <jason at impactstory.org>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 10, 2018 11:38 AM
> *To:* goal at eprints.org
> *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
>
> --
> Jason Priem, co-founder
> Impactstory <http://impactstory.org/>: We make tools to power the Open
> Science revolution
> follow at @jasonpriem <http://twitter.com/jasonpriem> and @impactstory
> <http://twitter.com/impactstory>
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