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Took a look at flocakademic — looks like a great idea and platform, but I'm curious as to where you see it fitting in with the rest of the research lifecycle, w
by tjwds 9y ago
Took a look at flocakademic — looks like a great idea and platform, but I'm curious as to where you see it fitting in with the rest of the research lifecycle, with institutional repositories and OSF starting to pick up the slack?
- Vinnl 9y agoThanks for taking a look! I see Flockademic in its current state to be complimentary to OSF, fulfilling a similar role at a smaller scale [0]. That said, I am currently pivoting a bit; I really want to focus on making Open Access beneficial to the researcher, i.e. a carrot rather than a stick. Thus I'm hoping to tempt researchers to voluntarily deposit their research at Flockademic, rather than mandating them to as is often the case with institutional repositories. If I'm successful at that, than hopefully I will be able to cooperate with university libraries to provide the IR service for/with them. (Of course, I'd be really happy if the OSF or IRs manage to make academics independent of the traditional scholarly publishers as well.) [0] https://medium.com/flockademic/i-want-to-create-alternatives-to-traditional-publishers-what-platform-do-i-use-ce1c275b05d https://medium.com/flockademic/i-want-to-create-alternatives...