<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Heather Morrison <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Heather.Morrison@uottawa.ca" target="_blank">Heather.Morrison@uottawa.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I'd be interested in hearing what people think of PeerLibrary. My own perspective is that the user name "general crap" (I'm not making this up, it's copied from the PeerLibrary collection) says it all.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm writing in support of PeerLibrary. It is quite inexcusable to describe it is "crap" - it's a high quality project with worthy motives. I and colleagues are working closely with PeerLibrary in projects such as <a href="http://contentmine.org">contentmine.org</a>.<br>
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It might be worth noting that one of the partners behind PeerLibrary, Mendeley, is owned by Elsevier.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Mendeley is not behind PeerLibrary. Aspersions of this sort should be checked.<br>
<br></div><div>and ...<br><br>"Thank you for your comments, Mitar. My question has more to do with
whether some in the open access community see this kind of initiative as
the purpose of OA, and the justification for efforts to force all
scholars and open access journals to use the CC-BY.<br>
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If this is the point of CC-BY, then I think we need to have a discussion
about the implications and desirability of this kind of project."<br><br></div><div>For us PeerLibrary is about making an Open resource, especially of the bibliography. There is no de facto Open Bibliography of scholarship - and Peer Library aims, inter alia, to do this. In ContentMine we need an Open Bibliography to consume the global literature<br>
<br>Any preference for CC BY content (and I did not see this as an emphasis of the project) is likely to result from restrictions. At present only CC-BY, CC-BY-SA and CC0 content can be legally copied into global public view without fear of violating rights. This is one of the major downsides of CC-NC - domains such as Germany could regard public posting of NC documents as not for "personal use".<br>
<br></div><div>So, far from being "crap", PeerLibrary should be welcomed.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Peter Murray-Rust<br>Reader in Molecular Informatics<br>Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry<br>University of Cambridge<br>CB2 1EW, UK<br>+44-1223-763069
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