OpenAccess July 2014

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Call for proposals on transformations around Open Access
by Daniel Mietchen 15 Aug '14

15 Aug '14

Dear all, an interesting call for proposals came out yesterday from the DFG (German research foundation), calling for submissions around Open Access and explicitly not limited to traditional forms of publishing, which leaves the door open for exploring Open Data, Public peer review, Open Notebook science or similar OA-related aspects of open science. I plan to draft a submission in public via https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:OpenScientist/Open_grant_writing/Open-… and would be happy to see you chime in. Cheers, Daniel -- http://www.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de/en/institution/mitarbeiter/mietchen-d… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Publications http://okfn.org http://wikimedia.org

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Digital-format (video) camera sought for August 4-6 pre-Wikimania in London
by Daniel Mietchen 01 Aug '14

01 Aug '14

Dear all, in the pre-Wikimania days, members of WikiProject Open Access plan to shoot a video around Open Access, Wikimedia and software development linking the two.[1] For that, it would be nice if someone could lend us a digital-format video camera from August 4-6. Higher quality goes a long way for this, so let's see what's possible. Some photography-oriented DSLRs like some Nikon cameras have a video recording mode and may be easier to find than a video camera of similar quality. Thanks for any pointers, Daniel [1] https://github.com/wpoa/OA-signalling/issues/104 -- http://www.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de/en/institution/mitarbeiter/mietchen-d… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Publications http://okfn.org http://wikimedia.org

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New free research accounts available through The Wikipedia Library
by Jake Orlowitz 28 Jul '14

28 Jul '14

Hi All, The Wikipedia Library has new free signups available: *American newspaper database Newspapers.com <http://enwp.org/WP:Newspapers.com> *British genealogical database FindMyPast.com <http://enwp.org/WP:FindMyPast> *Religion and women writers collections at Past Masters <http://enwp.org/WP:Past_Masters> *Several large archival collections from Adam Matthew <http://enwp.org/WP:Adam_Matthew> Medical editors can sign up for BMJ and Cochrane. <http://enwp.org/WP:BMJ> <http://enwp.org/WP:COCHRANE> Accounts are still available for JSTOR, British Newspaper Archives, Questia, and HighBeam. Sign up! <http://enwp.org/WP:JSTOR> <http://enwp.org/WP:BNA> <http://enwp.org/WP:QUESTIA> <http://enwp.org/WP:HighBeam> Note that signups are happening on English Wikipedia until you have journals set up on your local Wikipedia library branch. Don't have a local Wikipedia Library branch?? Contact me to get started setting one up! Please help share this news at your local community discussion or noticeboard :) Thanks and cheers, Jake Orlowitz (Ocaasi) jorlowitz(a)gmail.com

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