Biblioteca Pleyades

Business Profile

Core Value Proposition

[Biblioteca Pleyades] provides a virtual library and archive of information gathered from the Internet for research and educational purposes.

Target Customer

Researchers, educators, students, journalists, and the general public seeking alternative information on topics such as environment, politics, human rights, economy, democracy, science, and social justice.

Key Differentiator

Multilingual (Spanish, English, Italian) virtual library/archive with 20,000+ articles, curated by archivists; content gathered from the Internet; licensing enables sharing with attribution (CC BY 3.0); weekly updates; no specific ideological promotion.

Implementation Timeline

Not explicitly stated; provides ongoing updates and immediate access upon visit.

Pain Points

1Need for a large, multilingual, freely accessible information archive.
2Desire to republish material with attribution under a permissive license.
3Difficulty navigating diverse internet content and locating weekly updates across many topics.

Key Features

1Virtual library/archival repository of internet-sourced articles
2Multilingual content (Spanish, English, Italian)
3Very large collection (20,000+ articles and counting)
4Weekly updates (about 35 articles per week)
5Index by Areas and top menu navigation

Target Customer Industries

Client Results

1Immediate access to a broad multilingual information archive
2Ability to republish content with attribution under CC BY 3.0
3Weekly additions of new articles to the archive

Competitive Advantages

1Extremely large and growing archive (20,000+ articles)
2Multilingual content (Spanish, English, Italian)
3Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license enables republication
4Archivist approach focusing on collecting information rather than promoting a specific ideology
5Weekly updates and an index by areas for easy navigation

Key Benefits

1Free access to a large, multilingual information archive

2Permissive republication rights (CC BY 3.0) with attribution

3Regular, weekly updates with new content

4Browse content via an 'Index by Areas' and top menu navigation

5Archivist-operated, non-promotion stance

Additional Product Information

Product Description

A multilingual online archive that emulates a virtual library, collecting and distributing information from the Internet on topics including environment, politics, human rights, economy, democracy, science, and social justice; content is multilingual (Spanish and English, with Italian) and updated weekly; content is not produced by the site owners; licensing supports republication with attribution.

Target Market

Researchers, educators, students, journalists, and the general public interested in alternative information and 'new information' topics.

Unique Value Proposition

A multilingual, openly accessible virtual library/archive of internet-sourced information curated by archivists, with a permissive licensing model that enables republishing and a large, growing catalog updated weekly.

Technical Requirements

Not specified in the provided content; site is accessed via a web browser.

Pricing Model

Not specified; no pricing information provided; content appears freely accessible.

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