After Ken's wonderful contribution to the discussion with his investigation of academia.edu and his recognition of the valuable model offered by the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography, I can't help posting the following:
"SEP [Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography] is compiled with utter professionalism. It reminds me of the work of the best artisans who know not only every item that leaves their workshops, but each component used to create them—providing the ideal quality control. . . . The selection of items is impeccable. I have yet to find journal articles irrelevant to the scope of the bibliography. SEP could be used as a benchmark in evaluating abstracting/indexing databases that proudly claim to have coverage of electronic publishing, but do not come close to SEP." Jacsó, Péter. "Peter's Picks & Pans." ONLINE 27, no. 3 (2003): 73-76. (Full review) (Ken's point exactly)
This bibliography portal demonstrates that citation lists continue to play a role in research, in spite of the availability of powerful Web and digital library search engines and the near-extinction of print bibliography publishing. Summing Up: Recommended. — J. A. Buczynski, Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 45, no. 1 (1997): 58. (My point - especially for a growing field as SEP was.
The history of the SEP bibliography contains many lessons even if much of that history was shaped by the immense growth in computational systems taking place during the time of its evolution and of course by the quality, institutional support for, and commitment of one person, Charles Bailey.
Anyone on the PhD List who can imagine or see themselves in such a role should focus their life's work and career on realizing it. The field needs you!
Even so, times have changed. While we all stand on the shoulders of giants. It takes a long time to grow one. Group collaboration is probably faster and would lead to other results
Thanks Ken for another helpful (most of the time) contribution.
Chuck
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