hi Josh, The GOAL e-mails are usefully published in this archive: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/goal/
At surface this sounds like an intriguing and creative idea, however I wonder if you have thought about copyright and related issues (e.g. academic attribution, plagiarism)? Every e-mail on a public list is automatically covered by copyright (in every country covered by the Berne convention), unless of course it’s released through a Creative Commons license. I tried doing this once on a different list but the list owner found it annoying and deleted the CC license (for good reason - some list members were having issues with the size of e-mails delivered). If you’re copying small bits and creating what is essentially a new work it is possible that copyright would not be an issue. Attribution and plagiarism strikes me as trickier. Some of us (myself included) participate on this list as part of our academic work and/or their employment. If you take my words and fail to attribute me, that’s plagiarism, regardless of whether it is also a violation of copyright or not. However, it you try to attribute my words and have changed them through a storify, it seems likely that you will mis-attribute me. People might then begin citing me as saying something other than what I actually said based on your work, and at worst might cite me as saying something I actively disagree with. It is a good thing that you asked. My suggestion is to find a group where all of the members are interested in participating in this experiment. One example of such a type of group might be a small group that has agreed to work on a particular project together. For a pilot, there may be groups interested in making things public right off the bat, but probably others where people might prefer to see the results privately before deciding.It is possible that there is a subset of GOAL list members who would be interested in the experiment, but if so please leave my e-mails out. good luck! Heather Morrison > On Jun 16, 2016, at 10:53 AM, Josh Nicholson <jnichol...@thewinnower.com> > wrote: > > Hello! > > My name is Josh Nicholson and I am the founder of the Winnower, a scholarly > publishing platform that provides traditional scholarly publishing tools > (DOI, typesetting, archival, and Altmetrics) to non-traditional media > including blogposts, reddit AMAs, class essays, grants, theses, reviews, > responses to RFIs, lay summaries, journal clubs, and other new media so that > it counts for the scholarly record and the scholar’s career. We’ve been live > for just over two years now and have 1220+ publications from universities > around the world. > > I wanted to reach out to this group about a potential idea that I had > regarding publishing emails—yes, emails. Recently, I have received a barrage > of emails on another listserv (OSI) and while they are somewhat annoying in > the sense they clog my inbox, they are highly valuable in terms of content. > In short, I am interested in seeing if members of this listserv may wish to > have their public emails curated and published on the Winnower in more > readable publication-like format—a storify of emails, if you will. > > We’ve done something like this in the past with a panel talk > https://thewinnower.com/papers/1468-when-publishers-aren-t-getting-it-done > and I think we could do something like this going forward. > > It’s just an idea at this point but if people are interested I can go ahead > and curate any threads they think may be interesting to show you how it would > look. I am open to other ideas/suggestions too! > > Would love to know your thoughts! > > Best, > Josh > > > > JOSHUA NICHOLSON > CEO, Co-founder, PhD > @thewinnower > 510.912.7245 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
