So basically publish in commercial journal while also uploading to open access alternative hosting?
We need federation for scientific open access journals. ResearchGate is exclusive, auth-walled; they won’t let usual people download many papers.
Yes, or at least the author claims that that is better than publishing in a hybrid journal. A good Open Access journal would naturally be even better.
How would federation help for open access journals? It is already open and there are search engines.
A federated alternative for RG sounds great. It is quite hard to get a social network going, especially with introverted scientists. RG used unethetical methods to get it going. Not sure our folks would be willing to replicated such behaviour to get a federated alternative going.
How would federation help for open access journals? It is already open and there are search engines.
Access to all federated servers from a single client for better content discoverability; would be nice to also gradually decrease dependency on proprietary search engines; easier to interconnect researchers, reviewers, readers… (this is just my single opinion though, ideally we would gather the opinions/needs from multiple journals, researchers, and users). And the files should be distributed through IPFS or similar.
RG used unethetical methods to get it going. Not sure our folks would be willing to replicated such behaviour to get a federated alternative going.
Sending unsolicited e-mails by default would be against the values of the free movement and fediverse as I see it. There should more reasonable ways to attract researchers and people in general.
The search engines for Open Access articles are not particularly proprietor. The main on in Germany, BASE, is run by a scientific library. They are mostly rather bad and only searching for Open Access articles does not make scientific sense, you need to know all relevant studies.
The rest sounds like a social network for scientists like RG. Agree that this is something we need and also a good way to discover literature. I often look on the homepages of colleagues to find articles.
BASE, is run by a scientific library
I could not find its source code and license. none https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_engines#Full-text_aggregators seems to be freely licensed either? i know at least https://dblp.org/db/about/copyright.html freely licenses its metadata. edit https://docs.openalex.org/website interesting
developing a RG alternative can be focused first if that’s what stakeholders deem as priority
I am stakeholder. Where can I vote? :-)
this needs some initial formalization. looking at prior endeavors https://olki.loria.fr/platform/index.html seems similar to what we are talking about and more. looks like their funding is no more https://olki.loria.fr/detpage/plateforme/ and no more development as well https://framagit.org/synalp/olki https://framagit.org/cerisara/olki. they developed a “standard for federation of scientific activities and content using ActivityPub” https://synalp.frama.io/olki/scifed. i will look into installing it https://members.loria.fr/CCerisara/#olkisocial/ to see it for myself