[Foundation-l] Access to academic journals (was Re: Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser)

[Andrea Zanni]

2011/3/8 Tomasz Ganicz <polimerek at gmail.com>

> 2011/3/8 Juergen Fenn <juergen.fenn at gmx.de>:
> >
> >
> > Am 08.03.11 20:46, schrieb Samuel Klein:
> >> Melissa -- absolutely!  I don't know the real stats, but I think we
> >> cite OA jornals far more than any others in Wikipedia for this reason.
> >
> > Which is certainly a rather bad idea because what always counts first
> > must be the quality of content, not the license of a citation or whether
> > its available on-line or printed only.
> >
>
> Yes.. as well as there are areas of research for which there is no OER
> journals at all. Anyway - I don't think if WMF could afford providing
> access to scientific journals in aby scalable way. For example top
> chemistry journals published by American Chemical Society can be
> subscribed by institution - but in contract there is a limitation to a
> selected range of IP numbers and maximum download per year. The cost
> of intitutional subscription is around 2000 USD per journal. They
> provide also indvidual subscription but only to the their members. It
> is relatively easy to become an ACS member - but WMF cannot help too
> much with this. Maybe it would be more clever to grant access to the
> top scientific databases - for example for most active editors
> -leading wikiprojects...
>
> AFAIK, these publishers make the pricing upon the number of
scholars/researchers/students of a certain university/corporation: I bet
they would make us unbearable fees (in fact the potential users are hundred
thousands, if not millions).




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