Good news! The successful, free journal access partnerships organized by
The Wikipedia Library are expanding with two new pilots:
* Oxford University Press - 150 accounts for humanities references -
http://enwp.org/WP:OUP
* Royal Society Journals - 24 accounts for science journals -
http://enwp.org/WP:RSUK
There's also ongoing availability for:
* Questia Online Library - 600 accounts for news and social science
articles - http://enwp.org/WP:Questia
* HighBeam Research - 600 accounts for news archives -
http://enwp.org/WP:HighBeam
Sign up today!
Jake Orlowitz (Ocaasi)
The Wikipedia Library is happy to announce 3 open positions for "Wikipedia
Visiting Scholars" with Applications due May 1st.
A visiting scholar is unpaid (volunteer) and remote (no relocation): the
editor is given research affiliate status and full online library access at
a top research university, with a goal only of writing Wikipedia articles
using those resources.
George Mason University was the first visiting scholar position and it is
now held by User:Wehwalt with a focus on history.
Positions typically last 6-12 months. They may optionally include
opportunities for travel to or talks at the University, although these are
not required.
These partnerships are a great way for an editor to gain access to a full
suite of typically closed-access sources. The official staff position will
also make a great addition to a CV or resume.
The three new participating institutions are:
University of California at Riverside, (specialty, history or science)
*application:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxMNOw7LJBEaRFhrc1B2bWNUWGp4U2xMZGxiclVVY3…
*apply to: afrenkel(a)ucr.edu
Rutgers University, (specialty, transdisciplinary)
*application:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14FdaV5M4Ufv7673vxE65VgYGpX6yvrsBjnX2kxc…
*apply to: gagnew(a)rci.rutgers.edu
Montana State University, (specialty, history or environment)
*application:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxMNOw7LJBEaaWpSSFBKMzdvZHowSkloTzlmTXUzbn…
*apply to: brossmann(a)montana.edu
Applications should include:
*A standard résumé or curriculum vitae that also includes:
**A link to your Wikipedia profile
**At least three links to Wikipedia articles on topics in the specialty
area to which you have contributed.
*A cover letter with:
**A description of your background, including why you contribute to
Wikipedia
**What level of specialty area expertise and interest you have in which
fields, regions, or periods
**A summary of what access you currently have (or don’t have) to research
materials such as databases and scholarly journals
**An explanation of why you want to become a Wikipedia Affiliate at the
University.
**A brief outline of the specialty topic(s) and/or specific Wikipedia
articles you would focus on during your affiliate year.
More information on this neat opportunity is at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TWL/WVS
For questions contact Ocaasi at jorlowitz(a)gmail.com or on English Wikipedia
at http://enwp.org/User:Ocaasi
Cheers,
Jake Orlowitz (Ocaasi)
The Wikipedia Library
Hi all,
The latest edition of Books & Bytes is out, with a full overview of recent
Wikipedia Library organizing and outreach opportunities, our Spotlight
editorial/interview, plus news and notes from around the open access and
library world. Hope you'll check it out!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TWL/Newsletter
Best,
Jake Orlowitz (User:Ocaasi)
Coordinator, The Wikipedia Library
Dear all,
I am currently at the UNESCO Mobile Learning Week, and I thought I'd raise
something for discussion.
*Should there be wikipedia entries on projects that are to do with "open"?
I.e. an entry describing the project?*
*Should there be wikipedia entries on educational projects? *
E.g. the significant UNESCO TISSA project, or the CREATE project
http://www.create-rpc.org/ are not on wikipedia. Larger scale projects,
such as EfA / GMR:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_For_Allhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_for_All_Global_Monitoring_Report
are represented.
Background: People at the UNESCO Mobile Learning Week here are saying that
it's difficult to find out about other projects, and I would advocate that
we should use wikipedia to share basic information, rather than setting up
a separate platform.
For example I've just created this page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OER4Schools
It's fairly unbiased, but at the same time, I am a key person within the
project. So while I could defend the neutrality of the article, it may
still be frowned upon.
What do people think?
All the best,
Bjoern
[sorry for cross-posting]
Dom Mitchell from DOAJ sent this mail for recruiting volunteers for the
project.
Please share.
Aubrey
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DOAJ wants to recruit unpaid volunteers, with language skills, that can
help us
maintain our levels of quality for the journals that we accept into the
Directory, as well as reviewing those already in the Directory. We're
especially
interested in those of you who have an interest or experience in scholarly
publishing, journals and, of course, open access.
More info can be found here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1Fw8p9XB3C6d3d2cUhvZXA3OUk/edit?usp=shari…
Please don't hesitate to share this with your colleagues or get in touch if
you
have questions.
Dom Mitchell
Community Manager
Dear all,
the current issue of the Signpost (just published) contains a piece in
which I am introducing the Signalling OA-ness project:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-01-15/Op-ed .
Comments, sharing and other forms of feedback most appreciated.
Thanks and cheers,
Daniel
Dear all,
Peter suggested that I might email you all about an encyclopedia entry on
Open content we are trying to pull together. This is for the "International
Encyclopedia of Digital Communication and Society" published by
Wiley-Blackwell in collaboration with the International Communication
Association.
The article will be freely available and also openly licensed after an embargo
period - that's the best agreement I was able to negotiate, and it's an
interesting story in itself. It also means we can't re-use Wikipedia (under
CC-By-SA), which is a real shame, although we are drawing on some CC-By
materials.
Unfortunately there is not a lot of time, and we're in a real rush now. So
it's turning into an experiment in "speed crowd sourcing". I had originally
hoped that the entry would be written in a highly collaborative way, with
lots of diverse contributions and discussion, and I do hope this will still
be possible to a small extent.
Your contributions, thoughts and ideas will be very welcome, and of course
we'll acknowledge anybody contributing. The entry itself is here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O-PjUfUIGGuEo5MQpAHxVoXFnBnnqhfHUx47aqn…
The permissions are such that anybody can view and comment, so please
do have a look. It's at an early stage at the moment, but we are
working on it this week and weekend, aiming to get it finished (in final
form) by the end of the month. You can also have a look at
http://bjohas.de/OCEE for further information.
If you want to contribute, please email me as soon as possible to let
me know (bjohas(at)gmail.com), and request access to the Google document.
Many thanks and all the best wishes,
Bjoern
Faculty of Education
University of Cambridge, UK
http://www.bjohas.de