Comments on: Now On the Horizon: Start-ups and Apps That Can Change Your World http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/05/29/new-applications/ What's Hot & What's Cooking in Scholarly Publishing - from the Society for Scholarly Publishing Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:52:19 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Kent Anderson http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/05/29/new-applications/#comment-3356 Kent Anderson Sun, 31 May 2009 18:28:42 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=4284#comment-3356 Fixed, as was another typo. The perils of live blogging! Thanks for the tip. Fixed, as was another typo. The perils of live blogging! Thanks for the tip.

]]> By: Christina Pikas http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/05/29/new-applications/#comment-3354 Christina Pikas Sun, 31 May 2009 13:57:47 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=4284#comment-3354 At some point in the post you switch from Victor to Vincent - assuming you still mean Victor? At some point in the post you switch from Victor to Vincent – assuming you still mean Victor?

]]> By: David Crotty http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/05/29/new-applications/#comment-3345 David Crotty Sat, 30 May 2009 03:01:44 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=4284#comment-3345 Hey Victor-- Glad to hear there were no angry mobs with torches and pitchforks. I'll be really curious to see if the limits you're employing make any difference. I'm pretty sure that if I started a new version of Napster that allowed people to upload mp3s of songs and share them with 8 other people, the RIAA wouldn't put up with it. While I hope my scholarly publishing brethren are somewhat less litigious than the RIAA, legal precedence seems to be in their favor. I think there are some great ways that Mendeley can partner with publishers to the mutual advantage of both, and I hope you succeed in avoiding an adversarial relationship. Hey Victor–
Glad to hear there were no angry mobs with torches and pitchforks. I’ll be really curious to see if the limits you’re employing make any difference. I’m pretty sure that if I started a new version of Napster that allowed people to upload mp3s of songs and share them with 8 other people, the RIAA wouldn’t put up with it. While I hope my scholarly publishing brethren are somewhat less litigious than the RIAA, legal precedence seems to be in their favor.

I think there are some great ways that Mendeley can partner with publishers to the mutual advantage of both, and I hope you succeed in avoiding an adversarial relationship.

]]> By: Victor http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/05/29/new-applications/#comment-3341 Victor Fri, 29 May 2009 20:06:01 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=4284#comment-3341 Thank you for the write-up and your comments, Kent. I have to catch the Amtrak to NY, so I'll have to keep it short... Our focus is definitely on the end-user, i.e. researchers. All of the things I described today (research statistics or a download store) are things that would make the lives of researchers easier. Speaking at a publishers' conference, I was naturally trying to address how we could work with publishers to achieve this. David: I did bring it up, but no one threw things at me :-) It is, after all, a very controlled sharing functionality that can't be compared to free-for-all P2P services like Napster. As I emphasized today, our goal really is to work with publishers, not against them. Thank you for the write-up and your comments, Kent. I have to catch the Amtrak to NY, so I’ll have to keep it short…

Our focus is definitely on the end-user, i.e. researchers. All of the things I described today (research statistics or a download store) are things that would make the lives of researchers easier. Speaking at a publishers’ conference, I was naturally trying to address how we could work with publishers to achieve this.

David: I did bring it up, but no one threw things at me :-) It is, after all, a very controlled sharing functionality that can’t be compared to free-for-all P2P services like Napster. As I emphasized today, our goal really is to work with publishers, not against them.

]]> By: David Crotty http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/05/29/new-applications/#comment-3339 David Crotty Fri, 29 May 2009 18:47:12 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=4284#comment-3339 I'm curious if, in a room full of publishers, Victor mentioned that Mendeley allows users to upload copyrighted material and redistribute it to other users? Seems to me they're making many of the same mistakes Napster made, and if their service catches on, they're likely to get hammered by lawsuits from copyright holders. CiteULike has a similar function so they may run into the same trouble as well. I’m curious if, in a room full of publishers, Victor mentioned that Mendeley allows users to upload copyrighted material and redistribute it to other users? Seems to me they’re making many of the same mistakes Napster made, and if their service catches on, they’re likely to get hammered by lawsuits from copyright holders. CiteULike has a similar function so they may run into the same trouble as well.

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