OpenAccess September 2013

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Fwd: [libraries] Open Access to Mass History, October 21-27
by Andrea Zanni 18 Sep '13

18 Sep '13

This mail from Amanda Rust is probably worth forwarding here too :-) Aubrey Hello, all-- I'm helping put together a series of Edit-a-thons at MA libraries, archives, and museums for Open Access/Wikipedia Loves Libraries Week, and would love your help! Together with my co-organizer Amanda Strauss (Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe), we are encouraging MA GLAMs to join forces for Open Access to Mass History: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Loves_Libraries/Open_Acces… We are generally enthusiastic, but inexperienced. This is our first year in trying to organize a series like this, and we would love to have at least one knowledgeable Wikipedia editor at each site. (As we contacted potential hosts, each and every one first asked about how to connect with a Wikipedia editor, so we think there are a lot of people eager to learn the ropes.) So if there are any folks on this list that would like to volunteer to be the local Wikipedia expert/tutorial giver, please let me know. We have our list of confirmed sites up on the page above, and already have a few more in the works, so hopefully there is a time and date that works for everyone interested. Also, please feel free to share this widely, and let me know if you have any suggestions on where else to publicize. And feel free to let us know if we are doing anything wrong! Thanks, Amanda (R.) ____________________________________ Amanda Rust Asst. Dept. Head, Arts & Humanities Northeastern University Libraries 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston MA 02116 a.rust(a)neu.edu | 617-373-8548 ____________________________________ ____________________________________ Amanda E. Strauss Research Librarian Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University amanda_strauss(a)radcliffe.harvard.edu | 617-384-9329 ____________________________________ _______________________________________________ Libraries mailing list Libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries

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Re: [OpenAccess] effort to improve "open science" article on Wikipedia...
by Lane Rasberry 18 Sep '13

18 Sep '13

Hello, There is a team of people who are organizing a sprint to develop the Wikipedia article on "open science" this Friday, 19 September, at the Open Knowledge Foundation's OKCon in Geneva. Anyone can contribute to this effort online. < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Workshop/Open_Science_Workshop_%28G… > *HELP!* To improve the article on open science we need published sources of information to cite! Who knows any fundamental text, commentary, history, article, or review of open science as a concept, movement, or practice? We need help identifying the available sources from which we should draw our content to summarize on Wikipedia. If anyone has a source, please go to this Wikipedia article and add it to the list. Click "edit" at the top of the page to do so. If you cannot manage Wikipedia, then please just reply with your source to this list. If anyone has more than a source and can contribute content, then please do so at <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science> This is a great opportunity for anyone to make a real difference in improving access to the information online explaining the concept of open science. By the way - our late collaborator Aaron Swartz started this article in English in 2006. He made huge sacrifices which benefited all of us because he wanted to promote this concept and he was the target of a lot of discrimination in the recent past because he did restricted things that even now are becoming standard practices and that we are starting to take for granted as our rights. The concept of open science was important to him and is to all of us so if you have time to at least share a source of information then participate in your community and think of adding content to the movement. yours, On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Lane Rasberry <lane(a)bluerasberry.com>wrote: > Hello all, > > This email talks about an upcoming effort to develop the Wikipedia article > on "open science" at the the Open Knowledge Foundation conference 16-18 > September in Geneva and online. The request is that anyone who is able > should consider submitting something to that Wikipedia article - or to this > list for those unfamiliar with Wikipedia - so that people can learn more > about open science. The rest of this email talks about that - there is no > need to read further if you are not interested in participating. > > *Why this matters* > One way to describe open science is to say that it is the idea that all > science intended to be made available should be made available. Right now > there are barriers to collaboration in science, including inability of > researchers to read papers (lack of open access) and inability of > researchers to share data (lack of open data). > > Since the Wikipedia article on "open science" is the first returned result > for a search engine query on the topic, securing the usefulness of this > Wikipedia article is probably a prerequisite to anticipating that mass > media will ever talk about open science and thus encourage a social > movement. > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science> > > *How anyone can help* > The easiest way that anyone can develop any Wikipedia article is to make > sure that all major sources describing a topic are at least cited and > mentioned in the references section of that Wikipedia article. If sources > are not identified, then no one can develop the article. Please look at the > sources already cited and if anyone knows a fundamental source of "open > science" not mentioned in this article then please post it on Wikipedia or > if that is not possible, mention it in this mailing list. > > Otherwise, anyone can edit Wikipedia at any time. Feel free to jump in by > going to any Wikipedia article and clicking "edit" at the top of the page. > If you do something wrong then I assure you that your contribution will be > salvaged and integrated by others. > > Although the conference and drive to improve this article is 16-18 > September, actually you can feel free to contribute to Wikipedia at any > time. > > *Who can do this* > Stakeholders in the public perception of the concept of "open science" > should consider that at least this project will influence them, just > because this article will be for the foreseeable future the central source > of information on this topic. Anyone who likes can give input. > > This effort is being organized by Ceyla of HackYourPhD.org. She just went > on an international open science tour and documented an oral history of > open science. She will be at OKCon in Geneva and can assist people at that > conference. I [[user:bluerasberry]] on Wikipedia or lane(a)bluerasberry.comcan assist people on Wikipedia or otherwise online. > <http://hackyourphd.org/en/> Ceyla - at the conference > *<https://etherpad.mozilla.org/OKCon-OpenScienceHackDay> <------- Most > details planned here * > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bluerasberry> Lane - online only > > The P2P Foundation is an organizational overseer in this effort. > <http://p2pfoundation.net/> > > I would also like to advertise that there is a mailing list for the > Wikipedia community about internal policy on open access - open access > advocates may want to subscribe to this here. > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/openaccess> > > Also I would like to advertise that I recognize the Open Knowledge > Foundation as a major international player in promoting community > discussion about open science and related topics. > > Finally I would like to point to Gabriel Thullen and Brian as active > Wikipedians who live in Geneva. I have no idea whether they might be able > to say hello to any open science fans attending this conference but they do > both know Wikipedia and they do what they can to promote access to > information in Switzerland and beyond. Gabriel is especially interested in > getting youth to edit Wikipedia and Brian contributes to health content on > Wikipedia. > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GastelEtzwane> > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Biosthmors> <--- pressed for time but > friendly online > > Thanks for your attention! There is a concerted effort to improve articles > on open science and open access before the summer of 2014, when at > Wikimania, the international Wikipedia conference, we are making a media > push for recognition that Wikipedians and others need access to information > to make the articles that people are demanding! > > yours, > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: CelyaHYPhd <celyagd(a)hackyourphd.org> > Date: Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 5:59 PM > Subject: Some news.. > To: Lane Rasberry <lane(a)bluerasberry.com> > > > Hi Lane > > How are you? > > The last steps of my travel were really busy. Since one week now, I've had > more time to put the last interviews online. I also wrote some articles > about Boston and Montréal<http://hackyourphd.org/en/2013/09/9th-to-20th-august-open-science-montreal-…>and I hope to finish my article about NY tomorrow! > > Here is your open science interview<https://soundcloud.com/hackyourphd/hyphdus-lane-rasberry-wikipedia-health> > > I read also your comments about Kay's article about the Mozilla Science > Lab. > > Thats why I wanted t to let you know that we will certainly organize an > OpenScience wikisprint with the P2Pfoundation and Wikipedia during the OKcon > Hackday <http://okcon.org/> on sept 19th > > Pierre Carl Langlais the french wikipedian PdD student is helping to > settle everything. > Here is the draf <https://etherpad.mozilla.org/OKCon-OpenScienceHackDay>t > for different sessions we'd like to organize.. > Your advice are welcome > > > Best > > Célya > > > > -- > Célya Gruson-Daniel > HackYourPhD co-founder > #OpenScience community "Lets invent a research more open and transparent!" > Site : hackyourphd.org > Facebook Group / <https://www.facebook.com/groups/499463776745202/>Google > group <hackyourphd(a)googlegroups.com> > Twitter : @celyagd <http://www.twitter.com/celyagd>/ @hackyourphd<http://www.twitter.com/hackyourphd> > Page G+<https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/105961843978246755631/105961843978246755631/p…> > > Follow HackYourPhD aux States : hackyourphd.org/USA > > > > -- > Lane Rasberry > 206.801.0814 > lane(a)bluerasberry.com > -- Lane Rasberry 206.801.0814 lane(a)bluerasberry.com

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effort to improve "open science" article on Wikipedia...
by Lane Rasberry 14 Sep '13

14 Sep '13

Hello all, This email talks about an upcoming effort to develop the Wikipedia article on "open science" at the the Open Knowledge Foundation conference 16-18 September in Geneva and online. The request is that anyone who is able should consider submitting something to that Wikipedia article - or to this list for those unfamiliar with Wikipedia - so that people can learn more about open science. The rest of this email talks about that - there is no need to read further if you are not interested in participating. *Why this matters* One way to describe open science is to say that it is the idea that all science intended to be made available should be made available. Right now there are barriers to collaboration in science, including inability of researchers to read papers (lack of open access) and inability of researchers to share data (lack of open data). Since the Wikipedia article on "open science" is the first returned result for a search engine query on the topic, securing the usefulness of this Wikipedia article is probably a prerequisite to anticipating that mass media will ever talk about open science and thus encourage a social movement. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science> *How anyone can help* The easiest way that anyone can develop any Wikipedia article is to make sure that all major sources describing a topic are at least cited and mentioned in the references section of that Wikipedia article. If sources are not identified, then no one can develop the article. Please look at the sources already cited and if anyone knows a fundamental source of "open science" not mentioned in this article then please post it on Wikipedia or if that is not possible, mention it in this mailing list. Otherwise, anyone can edit Wikipedia at any time. Feel free to jump in by going to any Wikipedia article and clicking "edit" at the top of the page. If you do something wrong then I assure you that your contribution will be salvaged and integrated by others. Although the conference and drive to improve this article is 16-18 September, actually you can feel free to contribute to Wikipedia at any time. *Who can do this* Stakeholders in the public perception of the concept of "open science" should consider that at least this project will influence them, just because this article will be for the foreseeable future the central source of information on this topic. Anyone who likes can give input. This effort is being organized by Ceyla of HackYourPhD.org. She just went on an international open science tour and documented an oral history of open science. She will be at OKCon in Geneva and can assist people at that conference. I [[user:bluerasberry]] on Wikipedia or lane(a)bluerasberry.comcan assist people on Wikipedia or otherwise online. <http://hackyourphd.org/en/> Ceyla - at the conference *<https://etherpad.mozilla.org/OKCon-OpenScienceHackDay> <------- Most details planned here * <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bluerasberry> Lane - online only The P2P Foundation is an organizational overseer in this effort. <http://p2pfoundation.net/> I would also like to advertise that there is a mailing list for the Wikipedia community about internal policy on open access - open access advocates may want to subscribe to this here. <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/openaccess> Also I would like to advertise that I recognize the Open Knowledge Foundation as a major international player in promoting community discussion about open science and related topics. Finally I would like to point to Gabriel Thullen and Brian as active Wikipedians who live in Geneva. I have no idea whether they might be able to say hello to any open science fans attending this conference but they do both know Wikipedia and they do what they can to promote access to information in Switzerland and beyond. Gabriel is especially interested in getting youth to edit Wikipedia and Brian contributes to health content on Wikipedia. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GastelEtzwane> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Biosthmors> <--- pressed for time but friendly online Thanks for your attention! There is a concerted effort to improve articles on open science and open access before the summer of 2014, when at Wikimania, the international Wikipedia conference, we are making a media push for recognition that Wikipedians and others need access to information to make the articles that people are demanding! yours, ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: CelyaHYPhd <celyagd(a)hackyourphd.org> Date: Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 5:59 PM Subject: Some news.. To: Lane Rasberry <lane(a)bluerasberry.com> Hi Lane How are you? The last steps of my travel were really busy. Since one week now, I've had more time to put the last interviews online. I also wrote some articles about Boston and Montréal<http://hackyourphd.org/en/2013/09/9th-to-20th-august-open-science-montreal-…>and I hope to finish my article about NY tomorrow! Here is your open science interview<https://soundcloud.com/hackyourphd/hyphdus-lane-rasberry-wikipedia-health> I read also your comments about Kay's article about the Mozilla Science Lab. Thats why I wanted t to let you know that we will certainly organize an OpenScience wikisprint with the P2Pfoundation and Wikipedia during the OKcon Hackday <http://okcon.org/> on sept 19th Pierre Carl Langlais the french wikipedian PdD student is helping to settle everything. Here is the draf <https://etherpad.mozilla.org/OKCon-OpenScienceHackDay>t for different sessions we'd like to organize.. Your advice are welcome Best Célya -- Célya Gruson-Daniel HackYourPhD co-founder #OpenScience community "Lets invent a research more open and transparent!" Site : hackyourphd.org Facebook Group / <https://www.facebook.com/groups/499463776745202/>Google group <hackyourphd(a)googlegroups.com> Twitter : @celyagd <http://www.twitter.com/celyagd>/ @hackyourphd<http://www.twitter.com/hackyourphd> Page G+<https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/105961843978246755631/105961843978246755631/p…> Follow HackYourPhD aux States : hackyourphd.org/USA -- Lane Rasberry 206.801.0814 lane(a)bluerasberry.com

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Fwd: Signalling OAness project - Icon system
by Andrea Zanni 11 Sep '13

11 Sep '13

Dear all, I forward in this list a simple proposal I made for and icon system for the Signalling OAness project on Wikipedia. Some of you have just read it, but I think it's important to restart the conversation on this new OA ml. We have a lot of things to decide for this project - one of this is a sort of icon system. TL;DR: My proposal for icons is: * grey padlock for "closed access" * yellow-ish or grey-ish padlock for "embargoed" or "CC-BY-NC and CC-BY-ND" articles. * golden padlock for "CC-BY" and "CC-BY-SA" ---- There are many approaches that we could take: for example, we can intend "open access" literally, and give the golden padlock (or another icon) to any "gratis" article, or we can intend "Open Access", be more strict and give it to "libre" ones. Leslie, in the skype call, mentioned the "how open is it" leaflet: http://www.plos.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/hoii_guide_rev2_web_jpegs2.j… We have somehow 6 dimensions: 1 Reader Rights 2 Reuse Rights 3 Copyrights 4 Author Posting Rights 5 Automatic Posting 6 Machine Readability The situation is similar in the Linked Open Data world, and they solved that with a star classification system: http://5stardata.info/ We can go in that direction, and develop our own star/color/whatever system... But for the purpose of the signalling OA in Wikipedia I would stick with "user rights", namely 1. Reader Rights 2. Reuse Rights Remembering that we need to analyze at the article-level, and we don't care about journals (not for now), things get simpler. So, this is my break down. Articles could either be: * gratis or * non gratis --> closed access, grey padlack And if they are gratis, are they immediate accessible? * yes * no -> embargo. We could have an explicit date for that, retrivable by bot, or we can simply have an icon. If they are gratis and immediately accessible, we can then break down the reuse rights with CC licenses. So, following along these arguments, my personal system would involve use of padlock with appropriate colors: * grey padlock for closed access * yellow-ish or grey-ish padlock for embargoed or CC-BY-NC and CC-BY-ND articles. * golden padlock for CC-BY and CC-BY-SA Note that I've compressed in 3 icons a much complex situation, but it's a start, maybe. I'd invite you to give me feedback about this, and propose different systems if mine is not amendable. Aubrey

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Open Access Wiki Week
by Andrea Zanni 09 Sep '13

09 Sep '13

Hi all, what do you plan to do for the incoming Open Access Week? Lane was saying that he'd like to work on the OA page on Wikipedia, and I think it's a *great* idea. We could concentrate our effort during the Open Access Week, for example. In Italy, we will have an hackathon in the National Library of Florence: during that day, we will speak a lot about Wikidata, authority control and other things, but i would like to have a little "editathon" on the Open Access article too. We could translate the English version, for example, and rearrange our Italian article. It's not a very original idea, but I think it's important. Do you have other plans? Aubrey

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Open Access Report for the August 2013 GLAM newsletter
by Daniel Mietchen 07 Sep '13

07 Sep '13

Dear all, every month, the Wiki-GLAM community compiles a newsletter on recent activities: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter . Since January 2012 - when WikiProject Open Access was founded - it has included a report on the project's activities: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:This_Month_in_GLAM_Open_Access… . The newsletter is usually being posted on the 7th day of the following month (sometimes a few hours or days later), and our reports tend to reach on the order of a hundred people that way over the days following that. I would appreciate if you could chime in on the drafting of these reports each month. I have started the entry for August at https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/August_2013/Contents/Op… . Given that the July report was rather short due to my mishaps on the way to Wikimania, we can also think of adding a few July bits if you like - the OA signalling and OA button initiatives would perhaps be good candidates here. Thanks and cheers, Daniel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Romaine Wiki <romaine_wiki(a)yahoo.com> Date: Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 10:55 PM Subject: [cultural-partners] What happened with GLAM in August? (and maybe July?) To: cultural-partners(a)wikimedia.ch What happened with GLAM in August? Let us know and write a (short) report about it for the newsletter 'This Month in GLAM' so that the worldwide and local Wikimedia community can read what happened in your area. Also this will encourage others to participate and donate material. You can start writing here: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/Newsroom If your country/area isn't mentioned on the page, you can always add it to: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/August_2013/Contents Please mention also the GLAM activities on our calendar on: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Calendar/September_2013 Also mention Wiki Loves Monuments, just started! If anyone needs help/explanation about the newsletter, please ask! Thanks & greetings! Romaine _______________________________________________ Cultural-Partners mailing list Cultural-Partners(a)wikimedia.ch https://intern.wikimedia.ch/lists/listinfo/cultural-partners Please treat emails sent to this list as confidential.Ask senders for permission before forwarding emails off-list.

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Instructions on how to post an Open Access file of the Day
by Daniel Mietchen 06 Sep '13

06 Sep '13

... are now available at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_Access_File_of_the_Day/How_to_post . Anyone willing to give it a try for September 4? d.

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OA signalling proposal sent to BOAI list
by Daniel Mietchen 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

See http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/boai-forum/20130903/001620.html . d.

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Wikiproject Open Access on Wikipedia:School of Open course (P2PU w/ Pete Forsyth)
by Matt Senate 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

Hey all, Update: Lane (User:Bluerasberry) and I (User:Mattsenate) participated today in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WIKISOO as part of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:COMMOER project. We talked about the value and impact of open content on Wikipedia, including Health information, Scholarly Works, and (of course) WikiProject Open Access! I asked specifically for help assessing articles (especially a few that intersect with OER), categorizing new articles, and for feedback on how to make the Open Access article more accessible for folks who are not yet knowledgeable about Open Access. I encouraged folks to join the members list and also promoted the Open Access File of the Day template {{OAFD}}. Any thoughts on helpful topics, suggestions, asks for future outreach opportunities? // Matt -- PLOS | OPEN FOR DISCOVERY Matt Senate | Web Administrator 1160 Battery Street, Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94111 msenate(a)plos.org | Main +1 415 624 1200 | Fax +1 415 546 4090 http://plos.org/ Confidentiality Notice: This email and any attachments are solely for the use of the intended recipient, contain confidential and proprietary information, and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive messages for, or deliver them to, the intended recipient), you may not use, copy, disclose or distribute this email and any attachments. If you think you received this email in error, please notify the sender by return email or by telephone, and delete this email and any attachments from your system. Disclaimer/Virus Notice: The views or opinions expressed in this email are those of the sender and do not necessarily represent those of Public Library of Science unless otherwise specifically stated. Neither PLOS nor any of its agents accept any responsibility for any viruses that may be contained in this email or any attachments, and it is your responsibility to scan the email and any attachments.

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