Hi everyone,
OCLC is seeking a Wikipedian in Residence to serve three months this
summer at their San Mateo, California (SF Bay Area) office. This would
be a remarkable experience for anyone, including library sciences students.
Learn more here:https://jobs-oclc.icims.com/jobs/2081/job
"OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. is a nonprofit, membership,
computer library service and research organization dedicated to the
public purposes of furthering access to the world's information and
reducing information costs. Tens of thousands of libraries around the
world use OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend and preserve
library materials."
OCLC is one of the most important figures in library sciences
internationally - your local library most likely utilizes their services.
Apply today and PLEASE forward to any appropriate parties, mailing
lists, etc. Tweet, Facebook, whatever! Thank you,
Sarah
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Hello, library geeks.
I bring you a Wikipedian-in-Residence opportunity! :)
Asaf
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From: Proffitt,Merrilee <proffitm(a)oclc.org>
Date: Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:24 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-SF] Job listing: Wikipedian in Residence
To: San Francisco Bay Area Wikimedians <wikimedia-sf(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello,****
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I work for OCLC, a non profit that works with libraries to make library
collections and services more accessible. This summer, we will be hosting a
Wikipedian in Residence. Although the most important qualification for a
candidate is being an established Wikipedian and someone who can
communicate with others about their passion for Wikipedia, a candidate who
is also an early career archivist or librarian would be ideal! Please check
out the position description and let me know if you have any questions!
Please feel free to forward. ****
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https://jobs-oclc.icims.com/jobs/2081/job?hub=6#.T195DPQsT1A****
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Merrilee****
Merrilee Proffitt, Senior Program Officer
OCLC Research
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Dear all,
I recently started
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_transfer_agreement
and am looking for improvements, especially illustrations.
Do any of you know of a journal that recently switched from
toll-access to open access and may be in a position to provide a
suitably licensed copy of their former Copyright transfer agreement?
Thanks,
Daniel
Dear all,
few months ago th EU proposed a public consultation on scientific
information in the digital age.
Many Wikimedia chapters did reply to this survey, and results are available:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/survey…
Let me quote just the first results:
*Access to digital scientific information: scientific publications*
Respondents were asked if there is no access problem to scientific
publications in Europe: 84 % disagreed or disagreed strongly
with the statement. The high prices of journals/subscriptions (89 %) and
limited library budgets (85 %) were signalled as the
most important barriers to accessing scientific publications. More than 1
000 respondents (90 %) supported the idea that
publications resulting from publicly funded research should, as a matter of
principle, be in open access (OA) mode. An even
higher number of respondents (91 %) agreed or agreed strongly that OA
increased access to and dissemination of scientific
publications. Self-archiving (‘green OA’) or a combination of
self-archiving and OA publishing (‘gold OA’) were identified as
the preferred ways that public research policy should facilitate in order
to increase the number and share of scientific publications
available in OA. Respondents were asked, in the case of self-archiving
(‘green OA’), what the desirable embargo
period is (period of time during which publication is not yet open access):
a six-month period was favoured by 56 % of
respondents (although 25 % disagree with this option).
*Access to digital scientific information: research data*
As for the question of access to research data, the vast majority of
respondents (87 %) disagreed or disagreed strongly with
the statement that there is no access problem for research data in Europe.
The barriers to access research data considered
very important or important by respondents were: lack of funding to develop
and maintain the necessary infrastructures
(80 %); the insufficient credit given to researchers for making research
data available (80 %); and insufficient national/regional
strategies/policies (79 %). There was strong support (90 % of responses)
for research data that is publicly available and results
from public funding to be, as a matter of principle, available for reuse
and free of charge on the Internet. Lower support (72 %
of responses) was given for data resulting from partly publicly and partly
privately funded research.
*Preservation of digital scientific information
*Responding to the question asking whether preservation of scientific
information is at present sufficiently addressed,
64 % of the respondents disagreed or disagreed strongly. The main barriers
signalled in this area were: uncertainty as
to who is responsible for preserving scientific information (80 %); the
quality and interoperability of repositories (78 %);
and the lack of a harmonised approach to legal deposit (69 %).
Regards,
Aubrey
The Wikimedia response has been submitted, based on
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Research:Committee/Areas_of_int…
.
Thanks to all who helped on the way.
Daniel
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Daniel Mietchen
<daniel.mietchen(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
> While the EC may weigh non-EU responses differently, being in the EU
> or having EU citizenship is technically not required - any individual,
> organization or institution can submit a response.
>
> Daniel
>
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Kim Bruning <kim(a)bruning.xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 11:50:13PM -0500, Keegan Peterzell wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Kim Bruning <kim(a)bruning.xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > You can fill it in as a citizen, (which I did)
>>>
>>>
>>> Who, me?
>>
>> Haha, yes, you too, provided you're in an EU country. :-)
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Kim Bruning
>>
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Hi all.
Lodewijk today forwarded me this interesting EU consultation about
open access, open data and digital preservation for scientific
information.
Press release:
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/890
Consultation:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/consultations/scientific_information/consultat…
It could be very, very interesting if we (as Wikimedia Movement, or
Wikimedia chapters)
could write a statement to contribute.
Maybe our brand-new Open Access WMF fellow could be interested in
coordinating :-D
Anyway, it seems a good opportunity to put in (digital) paper what we
think about these issues.
Any thoughts?
We have until September 9th.
Aubrey
[sorry for cross-posting, on foundation-l we are discussing about Open
Access
in the "Black Market Science" thread, I wanted to share my reply also here]
2011/7/19 David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
> So. What can we do to help take out the proprietary journal system?
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*.
2. Discuss about a technical framework for publicize OA papers in Wikipedia.
Couldn't we harvest OA articles from institutional and subject repositories,
and even from OA journals, covering both green and Gold Open access?
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.
(I'm not sure about a Wikipedia policy on "preferring" OA sources, it could
conflict something else)
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).
(these are just ideas, feel free to dump them :-)
Aubrey