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Platforms  

 

AAAARG.org

http://aaaaarg.fail/

 

AAAARG is an online text repository. It was created by the artist Sean Dockray and serves as a library for The Public School, a framework supporting autodidact activities. Aaaaarg has grown into a community of researchers and enthusiasts from contemporary art, critical theory, philosophy, and related fields who maintain, catalog, annotate and run discussions relevant to their research interests. AAAARG is a conversation platform - at different times it performs as a school, or a reading group, or a journal. AAAARG was created with the intention of developing critical discourse outside of an institutional framework. But rather than thinking of it like a new building, imagine scaffolding that attaches onto existing buildings and creates new architectures between them.

 

Cuny Academic Commons

https://commons.gc.cuny.edu

 

The Academic Commons of The City University of New York is designed to support faculty initiatives and build community through the use(s) of technology in teaching and learning. The free exchange of knowledge among colleagues across the university is central to better educating the student body and expanding professional development opportunities for faculty research and teaching. Creating networks and support systems that are enabled by easy access to quality digital resources will nurture faculty development through sharing replicable materials and best practices. The Academic Commons is expected to grow in a flexible manner, taking into account the changing dynamics of political, social, cultural, and technological environments affecting the university. This evolving community will help prepare The City University of New York for the current and future educational challenges it faces.

 

EthicShare 

https://www.ethicshare.org/

 

EthicShare (www.ethicshare.org) is a discovery, collaboration, and research website for the bioethics community. Based at the University of Minnesota Libraries, EthicShare brings together the disparate resources used in practical ethics research: scholarly and popular press articles, multimedia objects, pre-prints, and archival documents from fields as diverse as medicine, biology, public health, public policy, philosophy, law, religion, gender studies, environmental studies and beyond. Resources are harvested from scholarly indexes, open sources, government documents, RSS feeds, and monograph record sources. EthicShare makes available quality digital content and provides a productive environment for ethics community engagement and scholarship. Generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, EthicShare was launched as both a resource for scholars and an experimental environment to enable interdisciplinary scholarship and collaboration. It was developed over three grant cycles from 2006 - 2011. As of 2014, EthicShare has over 7600 registered users from around the globe.

 

Figshare

http://figshare.com/

 

Figshare is a repository where users can make all of their research outputs available in a citable, shareable and discoverable manner. Data can be shared privately with collaborators or made public in the name of open research or to comply with funder and publisher mandates. All research outputs made public receive a DOI making them citable with the most liberal Creative Commons license where possible.

 

Humanities Commons

https://hcommons.org/

 

Humanities Commons is a trusted, nonprofit network where humanities scholars can create a professional profile, discuss common interests, develop new publications, and share their work. The Humanities Commons network is open to anyone. Humanities Commons is a project of the office of scholarly communication at the Modern Language Association. Humanities Commons was designed by scholarly societies in the humanities to serve the needs of humanists as they engage in teaching and research that benefit the larger community. Unlike other social and academic communities, Humanities Commons is open-access, open-source, and nonprofit. It is focused on providing a space to discuss, share, and store cutting-edge research and innovative pedagogy—not on generating profits from users’ intellectual and personal data. The network also features an open-access repository, the Commons Open Repository ExchangeCORE allows users to preserve their research and increase its reach by sharing it across disciplinary, institutional, and geographic boundaries.

 

Life Science Network

http://www.lifescience.net/

 

LSN is an internet platform for professional networking and sharing of information and knowledge in life sciences.The platform integrates multiple functional modules. One of the modules is Jobs which features an easy to use application and recruiting system. Another is Protocols that helps improve reproducibly of scientific research. Other modules include Publications, Events and News. These modules are built on top of a directory of life science infrastructure, creating a system that enables scientists to create relationships between themselves, the infrastructure and the content. The result is a whole new experience when accessing information and an automated way of pooling together scientific output of organizations and their parts. The LSN platform is developed by Life Science Network gGmbH, a non-profit organisation based in Heidelberg, Germany. Our organisation engages in business activities similar to other enterprises. However, unlike ordinary companies, we are committed to reuse the profits exclusively in a way that benefits researchers and science, all while in agreement with guidelines for non-profit enterprises and the German tax authorities. What does it means in reality? It means that once our bills are paid (development costs, running costs, hosting etc.), the money left on our account actually belongs to you, the members of our network. In fact, as more members join and LSN increases in popularity, the more likely it is we will earn enough to have profits that can be used to support you and your research.

 

MLA Commons

https://commons.mla.org/

 

MLA Commons network links members of the Modern Language Association and provides new avenues for scholarly communication and collaboration. This growing platform allows MLA members to create a professional profile, connect with one another, seek feedback on their work, establish and join groups to discuss common interests, and share their ideas with a broader audience through new kinds of open-access publications.

 

Philpapers

http://philpapers.org/help/about.html

 

PhilPapers was initially developed (2006-09) by David Bourget and David Chalmers at the Centre for Consciousness at the Australian National University. The site and the technology behind it started off as MindPapers, which was developed during the years 2006-2007. Immediately after launching MindPapers, Bourget and Chalmers began extending it to cover all of philosophy. Major improvements to the technology resulted in PhilPapers, launched early 2009. The original software architecture and programming is mainly Bourget's work, while the category structure is mainly Chalmers'. Later in 2009, David Bourget took on a postdoc at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of London, where the project benefited from grant funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee. Many improvements were made to the software, which was released independently as an open source package called xPapersSince mid-2013, PhilPapers has a new home at the Centre for Digital Philosophy headed by David Bourget at the University of Western Ontario. The Centre has received limited short-term support from Western Ontario, the American Philosophical Association, and the Institute of Philosophy. There is no long-term funding for PhilPapers currently in place.

 

Scholarly Hub

https://www.scholarlyhub.org/

 

ScholarlyHub will redefine scholarly social networks. It aims to become a member-run and owned, non-profit portal for sharing and improving scholarly communications among scholars and between scholars and the public at large. It seeks to provide a dynamic, multidisciplinary, peer-to-peer, open-access environment that combines traditional and innovative quality control procedures, pre- and post-publication services, and opportunities for network-based collaboration, publication, mentorship, learning and debate. Its successful development will make scholarship across disciplines visible and accessible, foster the sustainable preservation of research and protect scholars’ independence from conglomerate publishers’ market-oriented needs on the one hand and myopic government agendas on the other. In doing so it is guided by these Principles for Open Scholarly InfrastructuresWhile the actual configuration of ScholarlyHub will be determined through an ongoing discussion among its members, its ethos is that of an open, not-for-profit global learned society, supported by modest, sliding-scale membership fees. All members have an equal voice and enjoy the site’s full range of services, including personal websites, data storage, in-mail, job and conference wikis, mentorship programs, teaching aids and access to a variety of review protocols. ScholarlyHub will not sell users’ data and will be run for and by its community.

 

Scimplified

http://www.scimplified.com/about/

 

Science Simplified (scimplified.com) is a platform bringing you the latest news from science, health and technology through public and private customisable streams, with integrated metrics and a monthly outreach report. As a reader, you can use this platform without having to sign up, similar to other news platforms. You can read all the content and share it through social media. Sign up with scimplified.com to post comments, recommend and bookmark content. You'll be able create a personalized news stream, by following topics you are interested in, individual authors, individual organisations, and even entire cities and countries. As a writer, publisher or a representative of a research organisation, you can sign up to publish articles or upload RSS feeds to be added to our database as source of content. You can also monitor your contribution score and position of your organisation in our outreach report. 

 

Zenodo

https://zenodo.org/

 

Zenodo offers a one-stop-store for research output. Created by OpenAIRE and CERN, and supported by the European Commission, this new-generation online repository offers its service from the OpenAIRE pan-European initiative, which expands the linking of research output to datasets and funding information, in European and national contexts. Zenodo welcomes multi-disciplinary research data from any individual, scientific community or research institution. Upload allowance is generous (50GB) and can be used by institutions without their own data repository. Based on the same concept as OpenAIRE, which gathers Open Access publications across a variety of funding schemes, Zenodo provides a rich interface to link objects together with funding information. 

 

Software

 

Buddypress

https://buddypress.org

 

BuddyPress is a powerful community plugin for WordPress that takes your site beyond the blog. It includes all of the features you’ve come to expect from any online community, like user profiles, groups, activity streams, notifications, and more.

 

CommentPress

http://futureofthebook.org/commentpress/

 

CommentPress Core is an open source theme and plugin for WordPress that allows readers to comment in the margins of a text. Readers may comment paragraph-by-paragraph, line-by-line, block-by-block or by selecting text (coming soon to touch devices).

 

Commons in a box

http://commonsinabox.org/

 

Commons In A Box (CBOX) is a free software project aimed at turning the infrastructure that successfully powers the CUNY Academic Commons into a free, distributable, easy-to-install package. Commons In A Box is a project of the City University of New York and the Graduate Center, CUNY and is made possible by a generous grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. 

 

Elgg

https://elgg.org/

 

Elgg is an award-winning open source social networking engine that provides a robust framework on which to build all kinds of social environments, from a campus wide social network for your university, school or college or an internal collaborative platform for your organization through to a brand-building communications tool for your company and its clients.

 

Hypothes.is

https://hypothes.is/

 

Hypothes.is is building an open platform for discussion on the web. It leverages annotation to enable sentence-level critique or note-taking on top of news, blogs, scientific articles, books, terms of service, ballot initiatives, legislation and more. Everything we build is guided by our principles. In particular that it be free, open, non-profit, neutral and lasting to name a few. We create software, push for standards, and foster community. We are a non-profit organization, funded through the generosity of the Knight, Mellon, Shuttleworth, Sloan and Helmsley Foundations – and through the support of hundreds of individuals like yourself that want to see this idea come to fruition. You can view our tax returns here.

 

Zotero

https://www.zotero.org/

 

Zotero is a free, open-source research tool that helps you collect, organize, and analyze research and share it in a variety of ways. Zotero includes the best parts of older reference manager software — the ability to store author, title, and publication fields and to export that information as formatted references — and the best aspects of modern software and web applications, such as the ability to organize, tag, and search in advanced ways. Zotero interacts seamlessly with online resources: when it senses you are viewing a book, article, or other object on the web, it can automatically extract and save complete bibliographic references. Zotero effortlessly transmits information to and from other web services and applications, and it runs both as a web service and offline on your personal devices.

 

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