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Scholarship behind pay walls is a product, not knowledge. Transparent and free access to scholarly communication is vital to learning and healthy societies. At ScholarlyHub we’re taking the best of the new and the best of the tried to create a truly open-access repository, publishing service, and scholarly social networking site, with large scope for members' initiatives, without discrimination. We are run by scholars, for scholars: not for profit, greater market share, or political kudos.
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LEARN ABOUT OTHERS' PROJECTS AND CREATE NEW ONES
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IMPROVE YOUR WORK AND HELP OTHERS
Our goal is to help you pursue your curiosity and connect you with those who share it. The architecture of our future site, which we hope to build together with our members, will reflect what the SH community says it needs, not what venture capitalists define as benchmarks or milestones for launching an IPO on the top trading platforms, which you can read here. It will also refrain from overwhelming scholars’ profiles and publications with metrics that are rarely designed as quality indicators for scholarship.
Finally, it will accommodate scholars beyond the traditional mold of an academic, that is someone with an advanced degree who holds (or is formally pursuing) a tenured position at a research institution. Professional academics are a pillar of the scholarly community, but the scholarly endeavor comprises diverse communities of practice around the world, whose needs and voices should be served. We’d like to show you how we tried to embed these values in some of our initial designs for the site.
The search page is freely accessible to anyone and--more importantly--leads to fully open-access research papers, data sets, reviews, and more. Anything beyond this (and other SH search portals) can be viewed and downloaded without registration or providing further information.
Members signing up will be asked to provide basic personal info and payment details. These will be kept confidential and to a minimum. What will be expanded, however, is members' ability to profile themselves (or not) in terms of scholarly interests, not academic rank or affiliation, or in any way that makes claims to what is "normal" on this site. Scholarship first!
You are now looking at a logged-in member's main feed page. Members can design their own feeds and move between types of feed at will, thanks to the use of movable tiles. As a starting point we're proposing four possibilities: a centralized SH blog, a bottom-up General Assembly, a scholarship feed, and an education and outreach feed. Members can opt into or out of each of these through a simple interface that allows them to shrink, grow or eliminate feeds. What appears on all but the first feed, moreover, depends entirely on members' preferences (e.g. through tagging and their network).
Here is where members can shape and update their profiles, once again using a friendly and flexible tile design. Miriam, the logged-in member, has chosen to upload a photo, write a brief bio and list four main scholarly interests on the top-left tile. (As you'll see in the next slide, she also chose to upload a CV and provide contact info). Academic affiliations, positions and ranks are not part of how the profile gets built, but can certainly be part of your bio. The next tile to the right offers an overview of Miriam's network and allows her to connect with other scholars. Keeping relationships horizontal, colors are randomized, and we avoided both metrification as well as terms such as following and followers. The next tile to the right provides a tag cloud, reflecting Miriam's teaching, research and other interests.
This is what Miriam's ScholarlyHub profile looks like to the outside world, reflecting the choices she's made through her dashboard. Logged-in members can communicate with her directly through in-mail, but otherwise the view is the same. By toggling between tabs you can look at different activities Miriam's involved in. Any publication connected to these activities should be immediately visible and available to you. You can also search the repository directly from the bar at the top right of this page, and join the Hub as a member.
