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OA and peer-review
by Giacomo Cossa 07 Oct '13

07 Oct '13

You've might already noticed. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.full Interesting article from Science about the new boom of low-level journals, most of which are OA. Despite the clear disclaimer at the end ("everyone agrees that open-access is a good thing"), the article's mood is quite skeptical about OA, although the conclusions could maybe have been drawn also for non-OA low-level journals (but the author didn't test them). Giacomo

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meeting 3 October to discuss combining "open" interests...
by Lane Rasberry 02 Oct '13

02 Oct '13

Hello, Sorry for the late notice. It seems that I never cross-posted this. On Thursday 3 October - tomorrow - there will be a meeting of Wikipedians who support "openness". This is organized by some people at the Communicate OER WikiProject (for open educational resources) and I will be there as a member of WikiProject Open Access. *Thursday 3 October 2013* *15:00 UTC, for one hour* (some sample local times below, or see here<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20131003T1500> ) - 8:00am Los Angeles - 11:00am New York - 16:00 London - 17:00 Cape Town - 22:00 Jakarta/Indochina Time - 01:00 *FRIDAY* Brisbane/Sydney/Melbourne Format: Blackboard Collaborate (Java-based webinar software): j.mp/wikiSOOconf<https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/meeting.jnlp?sid=2008170&pa…> Optional 2-hour parallel work session to build out the project pages, immediately following the call: we will continue to use Blackboard Collaborate, and/or tools like IRC. The topic of discussion is deciding scope for the two major established efforts to promote "open" on Wikipedia, WikiProject Open Access and Communicate OER. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Access> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Communicate_OER> When I set up WikiProject Open Access, I took the task of tagging various Wikipedia article as being within the scope of interest of that WikiProject. This means that if someone comes to the WikiProject and wants to see its covered articles, they can get a list and enjoy the articles or hopefully contribute to them. I was thinking of open access as a concept which could be tied to all other kinds of openness, so I tagged every kind of "open" article - open science, open educational resources, open data, open source - with the "WikiProject Open Access" tag. This means that the precedent on Wikipedia is to associate anything "open" with open access. This is a bit of a problem now because this open educational resources community is not so interested in open access - it consists of teachers, librarians, and educators who want classroom materials, and the concept of "open access" is a bit removed from their immediate thoughts. I would like to connect this community into the infrastructure which already exists at WikiProject Open Access, and I would like to draw together all supporters of "open" movements, so in this upcoming meeting and future talks some of us will be discussing how to do this. There are two proposals on the table now. One is that separate WikiProjects - like Open Educational Resources and Open Access - each have their own main pages and send their communities to those main pages. This is how things work now. An alternative is to have one landing page - "WikiProject Open" - then to present any active communities as flagship projects of WikiProject Open. My proposal - - One project called "WikiProject Open" acts as the hub of all open efforts - WikiProject Open Access and Communicate OER are flagship-sub projects; other subprojects welcome - Project tagging on all pages changes from "WikiProject Open Access" to "WikiProject Open" - This mailing list, the "openaccess" mailing list, because the mailing list for all notices about anything related to "open" on Wikimedia projects, and not just "open access" - One forum becomes the talk space for all "open" projects - communities combine there My rationale for wanting to combine communities is that many people outside of academia are fans of "open" but the concept of open access is a bit inaccessible. I think that the open access community would do well to recognize non-academic outreach efforts to other "open" activism as being a reasonable way to quickly grow non-academic support for the concept of open access, and that the concept of open access adds a lot of respectability to other demands for openness. I also like the idea that anyone who ever did anything "open" would see and be guided to use and understand the concept of "open access", even if it seems not directly related to the "open" project they are doing. Thoughts? This will be a continuing discussion. I am not sure what is right and do not feel comfortable with my proposal but it is a starting point. I do not want to dilute promotion of open access but I do want to do something to increase active participation on Wikipedia. yours, -- Lane Rasberry user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia 206.801.0814 lane(a)bluerasberry.com

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Open Access report in September GLAM newsletter
by Daniel Mietchen 01 Oct '13

01 Oct '13

Dear all, I have started https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/September_2013/Contents… and would be pleased to see you add to it. Cheers, d.

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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 17 Sep '13

17 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 13 Sep '13

13 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 10 Sep '13

10 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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