From 99e37fca2ad74cd3e48d09b12b0d8a005d0de59e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bryan Newbold Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 12:39:41 -0800 Subject: about: small copy edits Thanks Cari S! --- python/fatcat_web/templates/about.html | 19 +++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'python/fatcat_web') 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 @@

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Fatcat is versioned, publicly-editable catalog of research publications: +

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.

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 archival and dissemination roles of scholarly communication. It may also support the registration role (establishing precedence and authorship), but explicitly does not aid with certification of content, and is not intended to be used for evaluation 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".

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Fatcat is a project of the Internet Archive, a US-based non-profit digital library, well known for its -Wayback Machine web archive and -Open Library 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. +Wayback Machine web archive, +Open Library, and book digitization and +lending services.

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 Mellon Foundation ("Long-tail Open Access Journal Preservation"). -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. -- cgit v1.2.3