OpenAccess May 2018

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by Federico Leva (Nemo)

In caso qualcuno non abbia già visto: <http://openaccess.blogg.kb.se/2018/05/16/sweden-stands-up-for-open-access-c…> 12 milioni e rotti è un bel gruzzolo da destinare a spese piú produttive. Speriamo che poi non capitolino come la Finlandia. Federico

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Volume and diversity of Wikipedia’s interaction with the scholarly literature

by Dario Taraborelli

I figured these pointers (which I shared in response to a question on how to showcase the "volume and diversity of Wikipedia’s interaction with the scholarly literature") would be useful to others on the lists. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org> *Crossref Event Data* This is the live demo web client <http://live.eventdata.crossref.org/live.html>, the vast majority of events come from Wikipedia. Just opening up this link at any time should give you a sense of the sheer volume of events coming from Wikipedia across languages in real time. The API endpoint with today's events is here <http://api.eventdata.crossref.org/v1/events?source=wikipedia&from-collected…> . *Wikipedia DOI referrals* One of my favorite datapoints is the ranking of referring domains <https://www.crossref.org/blog/where-do-doi-clicks-come-from/> for DOI lookups, which consistently puts Wikipedia in the top 10 non-primary-publisher sources of traffic to the literature as measured by Crossref. *Wikipedia citations* We recently released a comprehensive dataset of 15 million records <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/04/05/ten-most-cited-sources-wikipedia/> with all citations by identifiers in Wikipedia across nearly 300 languages. The data has already been used in a number of analyses (see here <https://medium.com/@thisismattmiller/analyzing-doi-citations-in-english-wik…> and here <https://medium.com/@thisismattmiller/analyzing-books-cited-in-english-wikip…> from Matt Miller). It got picked up by Wired yesterday, with a nice story <https://www.wired.com/story/wikipedia-most-cited-authors-no-idea/> on a paper cited 2.8M times in Wikipedia. This data is being used by other organizations to drive digitization <https://blog.archive.org/2018/03/14/lets-build-a-great-digital-library-toge…> and open access <https://blog.okfn.org/2017/10/26/how-wikimedia-helped-authors-make-over-300…> efforts.

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