Dear all,

two documents come to mind that address these issues to some extent
(bias alert: I was involved in drafting both):
(1) the Wikimedia Foundation recently released its Open Access policy (cf.
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/18/wikimedia-open-access-policy/ ),
and there is no reason why chapters or thematic orgs or other
Wikimedia partners should not take inspiration from that and issue a
policy on the same or similar terms.
(2) the Bouchout Declaration (cf. http://bouchoutdeclaration.org/ ) is
an attempt to move an entire research community towards increased
openness, and it was in large part driven by museums (18 of 91
signatory organizations so far, as per
http://www.bouchoutdeclaration.org/signatories/organizations/ ). While
focused on biodiversity research, I think this model might be a good
starting point for other research communities to address openness in a
more systematic fashion.
What about proposing a session on that for
https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wikipedia_Science_Conference ?

Thanks and cheers,
d.

On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 9:38 PM, Pat Hadley <pat@pathadley.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> There's been a recent bit of coverage in the UK over the issue of museums
> charging researchers for collection access.
>
> The strongest arguments for free and open access have come from the
> Prehistoric Society and can be seen on the Museum's Association Website.
>
> At York Museums Trust (hosts of my project) they do not charge researchers
> and have recently begun insisting that visiting researchers openly licence
> any photographs they take of collections items and encouraging them to
> pursue open access publishing of the research output (not always possible).
>
> I was wondering whether the GLAMwiki movement might like to speak on the
> issue and encourage GLAMs with which we are working to consider this part of
> their openness strategy.
>
> Research is one of the key ways in which collections are enriched. I for one
> am fed up with finding obscure notes on collection databases implying the
> existence of research done in the last decade which is now invisible online
> and/or has no paper-trail at the museum.
>
> What do people think?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Pat
>
> --
> Pat Hadley
> Yorkshire's open culture brain-for-hire
> pathadley.net
> @pathadley
>

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