[sorry for cross-posting, on foundation-l we are discussing about Open Access<br>in the "Black Market Science" thread, I wanted to share my reply also here]<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/7/19 David Gerard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dgerard@gmail.com">dgerard@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">So. What can we do to help take out the proprietary journal system?</blockquote></div><br>
1. Openly support the OA movement, partecipating in conferences, making
public statements, addressing the issue to the community. We discuss
with them on the "interoperability" of the our movements, as to say we
tell them using clear licenses (CC-BY) is *fundamental*. <br>
2. Discuss about a technical framework for publicize OA papers in Wikipedia. <br>
Couldn't we harvest OA articles from institutional and subject
repositories, and even from OA journals, covering both green and Gold
Open access?<br>
Couldn't we show dynamic lists of OA articles in the Reference sections
of our Wikipedia articles, generated by keyword and language? All OA
articles have these metadata in Dublin Core, it would be easy to filter
them and create those dynamic lists. <br>
<br>
(I'm not sure about a Wikipedia policy on "preferring" OA sources, it could conflict something else)<br>
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We could even bulk upload every article we find that is in CC-BY on
Commons, to store it there (and when we find a solution for uploading
them on Wikisource, we should do it too)(yes, we should need a
metadata/OAI-PMH framework for us, but I don't think is such a big
deal).<br>
<br>
(these are just ideas, feel free to dump them :-)<br>
<br>
Aubrey<br><br>