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diff --git a/python/fatcat_web/templates/about.html b/python/fatcat_web/templates/about.html index 706ab9fd..f984645f 100644 --- a/python/fatcat_web/templates/about.html +++ b/python/fatcat_web/templates/about.html @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ <h1></h1> -<p>Fatcat is versioned, publicly-editable catalog of research publications: +<p>Fatcat is a versioned, publicly-editable catalog of research publications: journal articles, conference proceedings, pre-prints, blog posts, and so forth. The goal is to improve the state of preservation and access to these works by providing a manifest of full-text content versions and locations. @@ -46,14 +46,15 @@ href="https://guide.{{ config.FATCAT_DOMAIN }}/">The Guide</a>. </ul> <p>This service aspires to be a piece of sustainable, long-term, non-profit, -free-software, collaborative, open digital infrastructure. It is primarily +open source, collaborative, digital infrastructure. It is primarily designed to support the <i>archival</i> and <i>dissemination</i> roles of scholarly communication. It may also support the <i>registration</i> role (establishing precedence and authorship), but explicitly does not aid with <i>certification</i> of content, and is not intended to be used for <i>evaluation</i> of individuals, institutions, or venues. This service is -"universal", not currated, and happily includes retracted and "predatory" -content). +"universal", not curated. This means that it includes retracted works +(annotated and disclaimed as such) and content some may consider "predatory +publishing". <h3>Sources of Metadata</h3> @@ -84,17 +85,15 @@ individuals! <p>Fatcat is a project of the <b><a href="https://archive.org">Internet Archive</a></b>, a US-based non-profit digital library, well known for its -<a href="https://web.archive.org">Wayback Machine</a> web archive and -<a href="https://openlibrary.org">Open Library</a> book digitization and -lending service. All Fatcat databases and services run on Internet Archive -servers in California, and a copy of most full-text content is stored in the -Archive's collections and/or web archives. +<a href="https://web.archive.org">Wayback Machine</a> web archive, +<a href="https://openlibrary.org">Open Library</a>, and book digitization and +lending services. <p>Development of Fatcat and related web harvesting, indexing, and preservation efforts at the Archive have been partially funded (for the 2018-2019 period) by a generous grant from the <b>Mellon Foundation</b> (<a href="https://blog.archive.org/2018/03/05/andrew-w-mellon-foundation-awards-grant-to-the-internet-archive-for-long-tail-journal-preservation/">"Long-tail Open Access Journal Preservation"</a>). -Fatcat supports this work by both tracking which open access works in known +Fatcat supports this work by both tracking which open access works are in known archives and providing minimum-viable indexing and access mechanisms for long-tail works which otherwise would lack them. |