Good question and idea!
I have a related question: if I have a Wikipedia-research paper, and never applied for any grants from WMF or such, how time consuming and difficult would it be to apply for a grant for the sole purpose of ensuring that my paper is published in an OA outlet? To quote Dariusz for the context, "If you're a scholar at a research-driven institution, the chances are you are required to publish in SSCI (JCR) journals. The typical OA fees for the journals listed there are 1,000-2,000 USD." Currently I just publish in closed access with whatever pre- and post publishing I can, because I was never able to figure out much about the grant system, WMF or otherwise. (Fortunately, my own research is very cheap). But the thought of WMF promoting Wikipedia research by making related papers OA through covering said OA fees is interesting, not only for me but I think it would be beneficial for the community. I will end up saying that as a regular Wikimedia Research Newsletter contributor, we get a lot of non-OA research, including on items that would be interesting for the community members to read, from best practices in teaching to studies on vandalism, reputation, etc. Currently many of such studies are locked behind paywalls, with no pre pr post prints. Educating people about those is one thing, but being able to tell them that WMF has grants to make their work OA would be another good argument to have in our arsenal. Any thoughts on that?
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Piotr Konieczny, PhD http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEAAAAJ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:PiotrusOn 6/29/2016 10:49, Maximilian Klein wrote:
Has anyone else use WMF's Open Access Policy? What was your experience?Hello All,As you might know WMF has an Open Access Policy that requires all work that they fund to be Open Access[1]. A strange consequence of this policy, that I recently ran into, is that it requires researchers funded by grants to publish OA -- but without providing any funding to do so. That is, I recently completed an Individual Engagement Grant (IEG), part of whose scope was explicitly to write a paper about the work[2], and when I wrote to WMF to acquire funds for OA publishing, they confirmed that the paper was under the OA mandate but indicated that funds were not available to pay for OA publishing.
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