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Integrating scientific literature into Wikipedia
by Saloni Agrawal 27 May '15

27 May '15

Hello everyone, my name is Saloni, and I’m a bioinformaticist. I am interested in integrating scientific literature into Wikipedia. I’m developing software that imports short 3 or 4-sentence summaries from open access articles into appropriate sections of Wikipedia pages. The idea is for readers to have access to open and recent published research and to make Wikipedia a more comprehensive resource. For example, this paper (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=10906501) describes a clinical study carried out among Latin American women to test a combined injectable contraceptive called Mesigyna. My software is designed to summarize a few sentences from the abstract (Creative Commons license for legal reasons) and integrate it on this page “Combined injectable contraceptive” ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_injectable_contraceptive) elaborating on Mesigyna in the Formulations sections. Ideally, I would like to develop this into a bot so that users don’t have to manually add information. I would really appreciate any guidance and guidelines on implementing this and how to get approval from the Wikipedia community. I look forward to your thoughts and suggestions. Best regards, Saloni

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green OA snag: Ingelfinger embargo, and new use case for WikiProject Source MetaData
by Hazel 25 May '15

25 May '15

(apologies to those who have heard about this from every librarian they know for the past month) A major publisher announced at the end of April that they will seek to prevent green OA author's manuscripts* from appearing on publicly-accessible websites, including institutional repositories, within an embargo time of up to four years (depending on the journal). According to COAR (the Confederation of Open-Access Repositories), this is retroactive. They also announce a policy of noncommercial noderivs licenses on all copies of author's manuscripts, which would mean that we, for instance, couldn't use images from these sources, even after the embargo had expired. *(post-peer-review, pre-publisher-copyediting-and-formatting, for complete clarity; see W:self-archiving) This seems to have annoyed some repositories, and they are requesting signatures for their statement of opposition: https://www.coar-repositories.org/activities/advocacy-leadership/petition-a…. The signatories make a nice list of possible institutional collaborators. It is possible the Wikimedia Foundation may also wish to comment. The publisher does say that academics may publish their own articles on their personal blogs and websites (judging from past takedown requests, this appears not to cover personal webpages hosted by universities). Compared to institutional repositories, indexing and discovery would be more difficult and more fragile. So we have a substantial new use case for WikiData WikiProject Source MetaData. Can we write something to post to the Confederation of Open-Access Repositories, essentially saying that we can help crowdsource links to historical papers, and maintain those links in future? How far do people think we are, practically, from being able to do this? Many of these repositories have good open APIs and good staff, so we could in principle upload a lot of metadata fast. Regards, HLHJ

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Freedom of Panorama Research (crosspost)
by Jake Orlowitz 15 May '15

15 May '15

Hi folks, I'm reposting below a request from the advocacy-advisors list. My hunch is that this list will be pretty well informed about Freedom of Panorama issues and be able to help. Jake (Ocaasi) --------- Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 16:36:38 -0700 From: Aeryn Palmer <apalmer(a)wikimedia.org> To: Advocacy_Advisors(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Advocacy Advisors] Research on Freedom of Panorama Message-ID: <CA+7J+5Hv9wUUtkPiq8Ukdyy48wKrmeR_i0vzC5HNE-aYYUuyqw(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi Everyone, I'm a legal intern in WMF's San Francisco office. I'm doing some research on Freedom of Panorama and the digital single market. If anyone is able to suggest any cases or other sources that discuss or demonstrate the effects that harmonizing FoP laws would have on the single market, please get in touch. Thanks very much! Best, Aeryn Palmer -- Aeryn Palmer Legal Intern Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street, 3rd Floor San Francisco, CA 94105 apalmer(a)wikimedia.org 415.839.6885 (Office) 415.882.0495 (Fax) NOTICE: *This message might have confidential or legally privileged information in iIf you have received this message by accident, please delete it and let us know about the mistake. For legal reasons, I may only serve as a legal intern for the Wikimedia Foundation. This means I may not give legal advice to or serve as a lawyer for community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal* *capacity.*

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Arbitrary access can be tested now
by Daniel Mietchen 11 May '15

11 May '15

I started to do so at https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebruiker:Daniel_Mietchen/Arbitrary_access#Or… in order to use license information from Wikidata in references on Wikipedia pages. Hope to see you there. d.

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Wikiproject Open Access now on Wikidata
by Daniel Mietchen 13 Apr '15

13 Apr '15

Dear all, just a brief note that https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Open_Access has been launched in order to coordinate OA-related activities on Wikidata. I am planning on setting up a complement on Commons too. As always, help is most welcome. Thanks, d.

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League of European Research Universities signed the SF Declaration on Research Assessment
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 20 Mar '15

20 Mar '15

http://www.leru.org/index.php/public/news/not-everything-that-can-be-counte… http://ar.ascb.org/sfdora.html Good news. IMHO, Open Access is about doing research that matters rather than research that figures well on a CV only. Nemo

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WMF Open Access policy
by Daniel Mietchen 18 Mar '15

18 Mar '15

Dear all, the Foundation just announced its Open Access policy: Blog post: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/18/wikimedia-open-access-policy/ Policy: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Open_access_policy FAQ: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Open_access_policy_FAQ d.

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Wikipedia Library Books & Bytes Newsletter (Issue 10)
by Jake Orlowitz 04 Mar '15

04 Mar '15

Hi library aficionados, Catch up on the latest 2 months of news and developments from The Wikipedia Library: In this issue of Books & Bytes... * New donations - ProjectMUSE, Dynamed, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, and Women Writers Online * New TWL coordinators, conference updates, and new guide outreach guides (including a template for just for archivists) *Foundation moves - TWL joints into the new Community Engagement department at the WMF, completes quarterly review * And a 360 degree view of the digital library world with Bytes in Brief from around the web *Read the newsletter:* < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/Newsletter/Ja… > Cheers! The Wikipedia Library Team <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library>

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New Free Research Accounts via the Wikipedia Library
by Jake Orlowitz 02 Mar '15

02 Mar '15

Hi! The Wikipedia Library has new, free research donations available: Project MUSE (humanities and social science books and journals): < http://enwp.org/WP:Project_MUSE> DynaMed (clinical reference for medical topics): <http://enwp.org/WP:DynaMed> Royal Pharmaceutical Society (pharmaceutical information and practice resources): <http://enwp.org/WP:RPharmS> Women Writers Online (digital humanities database focused on women's literature): <http://enwp.org/WP:Women_Writers_Online> Newspapers.com (American newspapers database w/ open access tools): < http://enwp.org/WP:Newspapers.com> And many other partnerships with accounts available are listed at: < http://enwp.org/WP:TWL/Journals> Do better research and help expand the use of high-quality references across Wikipedia projects. Sign up today! --The Wikipedia Library Team <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library>

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Open Access and Wikimedia
by Andrea Zanni 02 Mar '15

02 Mar '15

Hello everyone, I'm gonna participate in a two-days conference in Italy about Open Access, and I would like to know from you if there are any updates/projects going on that you would like to be mentioned. The scope is OA and the Wikimedia world, of course. Every link and reference will be very appreciated :-) Thanks! Aubrey

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