ScholarlyHub – Scholars launch crowdfunding campaign for non-profit academic platform | Progressive Geographies

peter.suber's bookmarks 2017-11-28

Summary:

"ScholarlyHub has launched a crowdfunding campaign to build a new, multi-disciplinary open-access platform for scholarly communications. It aims to boost interaction among scholars and enhance their ability to share their work with the public at large, free from the constraints placed by publishing conglomerates and myopic government policies. ScholarlyHub will be an inclusive but critical space where curiosity and creativity can flourish and where scholars’ independence is protected for their own benefit and that of society at large.This non-profit platform will redefine social networks for scholars. The major academic social networking sites have been backed by venture capitalists, whose primary goal to profit from scraping and selling scholars’ data. ScholarlyHub, by contrast, is committed to scholarship, not profit. It aims to repair an unjust academic system and a global disparity in access to research, which is often publicly funded. By creating a member-run social network, ScholarlyHub will become a sustainable alternative for bringing scholars closer together in an increasingly fragmented academic landscape...."

Link:

https://progressivegeographies.com/2017/11/28/scholarlyhub-scholars-launch-crowdfunding-campaign-for-non-profit-academic-platform/

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Tags:

oa.scholarlyhub oa.new oa.platforms oa.fundraising oa.crowd oa.networking

Date tagged:

11/28/2017, 17:31

Date published:

11/28/2017, 12:31