We just published the WikiCite 2017 annual report, giving a comprehensive – while definitely not complete – overview of what the community has achieved in the past 12 months in building a structured repository of sources in Wikidata.
https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5648233https://twitter.com/wikicite/status/938778592653332480
Thanks to everyone who contributed, to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Science Sandbox initiative at the Simons Foundation for their generous support, and everyone at Wikimedia Austria and WMF who helped getting this off the ground.
We’ll be posting soon an update about our plans for 2018. Stay tuned!
Dario, on behalf of the WikiCite organizers.
ELPUB2018 Call for Proposals and Participation: Extended abstract due on
January 10, 2018
Conference dates and venue: June 22-24, 2018 University of Toronto, Canada
See details on submission and important dates: http://elpub.net
The theme for ELPUB2018 is Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects
to Sustainable Infrastructure.
The question of sustainability in the open access movement has been widely
debated, yet satisfactory answers have yet to be generated.
Market-driven versions of open access and open science are growing in
prevalence, as well as a growing dependence on commercial publishers for
the infrastructures needed to openly and democratically create and
communicate knowledge.
This year¹s theme challenges us to collaborate on the design and
implementation of a sustainable community-driven research communication
infrastructure that is also inclusive of diverse forms of knowledge making
and sharing.
If you are interested in sharing your research, ideas, and tools that
contribute to the theme or just join in the discussion, please consider
participating in the meeting.
In the meantime, you may wish you sign up for the newsletter to receive
updates on the conference.
http://goo.gl/memGLc
Leslie Chan and Pierre Mounier, Conference co-chairs
About ELPUB
ELPUB 2018 marks the 22nd edition of the International Conference in
Electronic PUBlishing and the 10th anniversary of the meeting being held
in Toronto. ELPUB has featured research results in various aspects of
digital publishing for over two decades, involving a diverse international
community of librarians, developers, publishers, entrepreneurs,
administrators and researchers across the disciplines in the sciences and
the humanities. It is unique as a platform for both researchers,
professionals and the broader community. The Conference is held annually
and contains a multi-track presentation of refereed papers as well as
invited keynotes, special sessions, demonstrations, round tables, and
poster presentations. The entire collection of conference papers since its
inception is available in the ELPUB Digital Library
<https://elpub.architexturez.net/>, and all refereed papers are indexed by
major indexing services.
Access to research is a problem even for librarians or academics, even at
top research universities. The broader public suffers because of the heavy
cost of subscriptions, the obstacle course of paywalls, and the
fragmentation of publishing models.
How do we tackle this, as scholars, reference professionals, and as
individual citizens looking to understand our world and learn? We asked
that question and got hundreds of responses.
We crowdsourced over 25 different techniques to access research when you
don't have a library, license, or subscription.
The result is a comprehensive, open guide that I hope you'll find
beneficial, strategic, or enlightening. I share it in the realization that
we are all struggling for access, no matter our region, institution, or
title.
This is version 1.0! If you think it's useful, please say something about
it in your network.
You’re a Researcher Without a Library: What Do You Do?
<https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/youre-a-researcher-without-a-library-what-…>*Investigating
solutions for frustrated scholars, nonprofits, independent learners, and
the rest of us.*
https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/youre-a-researcher-without-a-library-what-…
Best,
Jake Orlowitz
Head of the Wikipedia Library
www.wikipedialibrary.org
Hi all,
Open access week has been great and we've had a lot of usage of OAbot
<http://www.oabot.org>, the tool that finds paywalled citations on
Wikipedia and suggests a free-to-read link to add in the reference. Nearly
2,000 links have been added so far this week!
But OAbot has been a victim of its success and can't keep up with the
usage. It's suffering from the suggestion queue getting depleted,
resulting in users seeing suggestions that are low-quality and have already
been 'skipped' by other users.
Our first need is to implement a 'reject' suggestion option, to clean out
the cruft and keep the queue quality.
Our phenomenal lead developer, Antonin Delpeuch from dissem.in, doesn't
have time to maintain the tool alone, so I'm putting out an open request
for collaborators!
If you can code, love open access, and/or know someone who does, please
point them here or back to me. This is an open-licensed collaborative
project and we'd love help!
Jake Orlowitz
Wikipedia Library
Technical details:
- The tool is written in Python with flask
- It stores candidate edits as JSON files on disk
- Proposed edits are represented by the TemplateEdit class declared in
main.py.
- To add a reject button, one needs to decide how to represent rejected
edits (storing the link only, storing the template and the link, storing
the DOI and the link...) and choose a form of storage for the list of
rejected edits (SQL table, text file, Wikipedia page...) so that anyone can
refine the blacklist
- When rejecting a link, all matching edits in the store of proposed
edits must be invalidated, and candidate edits discovered after that must
be matched against this database to filter them out
- Or you have a simpler way?
Codebase: https://github.com/dissemin/oabot
Workboard: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/2734/
Documentation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:OABOT
Dear all,
Apologies for cross-posting.
Open Knowledge International is pleased to announce a new blog post
titled ‘Understanding
the cost of scholarly publishing - Why we need a public data infrastructure
for publishing costs
<https://blog.okfn.org/2017/10/24/understanding-the-costs-of-scholarly-publi…>’.
As we celebrate International Open Access Week
<http://www.openaccessweek.org/>, we wish to highlight the lack of
financial transparency in the scholarly publication system. How much is
paid for scholarly communication? Do current publishing models work in the
service of research? How can more financial data help to understand
problems in the publishing system? These questions are extremely hard to
assess at the moment, because we simply lack the data for it.
In our blog post we make the case for a public data infrastructure of the
cost of scholarly publication. The post summarises evidence from different
studies to explain the drivers of financial opacity, its detrimental
effects on scholarly publication, and outlines steps that we can
collectively take towards a public data infrastructure.
Since Open Knowledge International is planning substantial work in this
field, we would love to invite your feedback. Maybe you have thoughts on
how you would like to move the topic forward? Maybe you plan activities in
this area?
We would love to learn how your upcoming plans and interests align with
this topic. Please do not hesitate to get in touch with us and email myself
and Sander van der Waal (Head of Network and Partnerships) at
research(a)okfn.org. We are happy to arrange a short call.
In any case, please do feel free to share our blog post widely in your
networks.
Warm wishes,
Danny Lämmerhirt
--
*Danny Lämmerhirt*
Researcher & Research Coordinator at Open Knowledge International
<https://okfn.org/>
Email: *danny.lammerhirt(a)okfn.org <danny.lammerhirt(a)okfn.org>*
Twitter: @danlammerhirt <https://twitter.com/DanLammerhirt>
Skype: danny.lammerhirt1
http://okfn.org | @okfn <http://twitter.com/OKFN> | Facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/OKFNetwork> | Blog <http://blog.okfn.org/>
To help researchers (and Wikipedians), I've been collaboratively working on
a now 24-option guide about how to access sources when you don't have
access to them. Many of you are pros at this kind of digging. Could you
give it 10 minutes and feel free to make comments, suggestions,
corrections, or additions? Don't hesitate to be bold :)
***Review the full guide
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OOw4Pcz920bkbP24uOI7AVr5SOOlVOCXOOw1G4t…>***
You're a Researcher without Access to Research: What do you do?
Investigating solutions for small nonprofits, social impact organizations,
and earnest individuals.
The world of publishing is evolving frantically, while it remains
frustratingly fragmented and prohibitively expensive for many. If you're a
student who just left your plush academic library behind only to discover
you are now locked out of the stacks; a Swedish startup researching water
usage in Africa and keep hitting paywalls; a small nonprofit that studies
social change activism, but all the latest papers cost $40 per read… This
article is for you.
***Review the full guide
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OOw4Pcz920bkbP24uOI7AVr5SOOlVOCXOOw1G4t…>***
*Thank you!*
*Jake Orlowitz*
*Head of the Wikipedia Library*
*Wikimedia Foundation*
Federico, et. al.,
I'm am 'over the moon' getting this e-mail from my brother today. I've
used my brother as an example of a scholar who has always done science as a
contribution to society and would want to share his works if he knew that
he needed to and knew how. He serves on the National Academy of Sciences as
well as the Royal Academy of Sciences in Belgium. He's been publishing in
scholarly journals since the early 60s and he's still an active researcher
at 80 years old.
I've envisioned his getting an e-mail like this ever since waking up
from a dream on 24 May, 2015 after having read Peter Suber's book on Open
Access. In the dream it struck me that there's a point in time when a
publisher (in this case Wikipedia) has an interest for their readers to
have an excellent reading experience (and isn't this the mission of any
publisher???) and an interest in reaching authors who are experts in the
fields in which they publish. And that authors of have an interest in
having an impact on the audiences that the publisher is reaching.
Peter, do you remember when I told you about some of my brother's paper
still being cited that were published before the NIH mandates were in
place? I told you that he considers them to be shared because they all
are on his department's website. You told me that I should tell my brother
to submit them to the UWisconsin I.R. And I said, "I'm not interested in
solving my brother's specific open access problem. I want to see a
systematic way of reaching my brother and all the other scholars so that
they are motivated to do share appropriately."
My brother is currently having to type with one hand and write with
his previously non-dominant hand. But you notice in his message to me that
he's truly motivated to now put all of this papers under a creative commons
license.
I think I'll only suggest that he click on the dissem.in link.
Someone like him should be able to take that path and be successful.
I'll watch and report back.
-John Dove
PS: I'm at the Conference of Open Access Scholarly Publishers meeting
starting tomorrow. You all have given me a wonderful boost. I'm going to
be socializing the idea that other publishers could follow Wikipedia's lead
on this. I've come prepared with reference lists from several gold open
access publishers including PLoS, MDPI, and Hindawi.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: William Dove <dove(a)oncology.wisc.edu>
Date: Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 2:31 PM
Subject: Fw: Open Access via Wikipedia
To: John Dove <johngdove(a)gmail.com>,
Cc: William Dove <dove(a)oncology.wisc.edu>
hi john,
i am "babe in the woods" on this. please advise what is best for me to
do to make each of my publications (*) available under Creative Commons.
onward,
bill (dove)
------------------------------
*From:* Federico Leva - WMI <info(a)wikimedia.it>
*Sent:* Monday, September 18, 2017 1:08 PM
*To:* William Dove
*Subject:* I found your work on Wikipedia but it could be more accessible
Dear William Dove,
as a volunteer Wikipedia editor, I found your *RETROSPECTIVE James F. Crow
(1916-2012)*
<http://phplist.wikimedia.it/lists/lt.php?tid=LB8FVAEAVlRWUxkCVFUAHgVaAwAZBQ…>
(doi:10.1126/science.1219557)
cited in an English Wikipedia article
<http://phplist.wikimedia.it/lists/lt.php?tid=LB9SUFdfAgIEVhkCC1QDHgVWAAwZXV…>
.
However, I did not easily find a copy that I could access and share.
On the Dissemin page about your work
<http://phplist.wikimedia.it/lists/lt.php?tid=LB8FVAEAVlRWUxkCVFUAHgVaAwAZBQ…>
I found that your publisher's policies allow you to make it available for
everyone now (green open access).
With a couple clicks on Dissemin you can now deposit your manuscript in
Zenodo (hosted by CERN): as an author, you just have to click the upload
button and select the relevant PDF from your disk. Dissemin takes care of
all the metadata for you.
I need an open access copy to be able to discuss it with fellow editors and
make sure the Wikipedia article provides an accurate and neutral overview
under a free license for everybody to use. We also want every user who
reads Wikipedia to be able to verify its content by consulting its primary
sources. (See the Wikipedia pillars
<http://phplist.wikimedia.it/lists/lt.php?tid=LB8MVwYHCgNXUhkFU1VQHgVbBw4ZBg…>
.)
On Dissemin you can also click your name from the work's page or search
your name
<http://phplist.wikimedia.it/lists/lt.php?tid=LB8AAgQCA1IFBxlRVwYGHgVSA1oZBg…>
to find all your known works which are already available or could be made
available. Dissemin will ask you to login via ORCID: you may already have
an ORCID account from your institution, but if not you can easily signup
and create your unique author identity.
When asked to choose a copyright license for your work, please consider
that "libre" Open Access is especially helpful to grow free knowledge
resources like Wikipedia: at Wikimedia we prefer the Creative Commons
Attribution Share-Alike (CC BY-SA) license, or the CC BY.
If you have already deposited your works elsewhere, please contact your
librarians or the administrators of your repository so that they can
investigate why BASE/oaDOI fail to direct users to your archived version.
They may also be able to help you archive your works if you are not able to
do it yourself.
Finally, for more information on Open Access, we recommend the SPARC Open
Access website and Peter Suber's how-to at Harvard
<http://phplist.wikimedia.it/lists/lt.php?tid=LB8HB1RUBVQGVRkAAAECHgUHWloZBQ…>
.
If you found Dissem.in
<http://phplist.wikimedia.it/lists/lt.php?tid=LB8MWlZfUlIDUhkKBA5THgVaWwAZXF…>
useful, please forward to all your co-authors and colleagues.
Kind regards,
Federico Leva
(Wikimedia Italia association member)
P.s.: This message is sent to your address as relevant feedback about the
publication which provided it. Dissemin is run by the independent CAPSH
association in France.
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As discussed in previous post
BR
Rudy
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Rudy Patard <rudy.patard(a)gmail.com>
Date: 12 November 2016 at 23:59
Subject: Re: An initiative to change the publication paradigm
To: Tyler Neylon <tylerneylon(a)gmail.com>
Hi,
OK. Thanks. I'll use the names to build a contacts list.
If you know of groups of more radical people willing to target what is
crippling the universities, and more generally the free dissemination of
knowledge, do not hesitate to send me contacts.
I just left my phd supervision (thesis director and supervisors) cause they
where strongly opposed to the content of my thesis and more particularly
this 'Journal Scientifique Libre' part... Now they are requiring me to
suppress the logos of the laboratory (and affiliations) I was in while
working on this. So I guess through their reaction that the proposal is
significant enough. ;-)
I haven't created the english wikiversity sister pages yet, but I will
soon. The english initial proposal was (is) on ENIPEDIA (
http://enipedia.tudelft.nl/wiki/Portal:wiki-based_free_open_journals).
PS : I've no trouble with reading english, but thanks for the kindness in
translating. I may be writing poorly however. But I guess it will be enough
to be understood.
Best Regards
Rudy
*CordialementRudy Patard*
*Lille*
*Doctorant en recherche d'une nouvelle direction de thèse.*
*Évaluation de la soutenabilité. (cf HAL
<https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/search/index/q/Rudy+Patard/rows/30/>)*
*06 38 02 53 12 <06%2038%2002%2053%2012>*
*Solenopsis invicta, qui ne voudrait pas être** Paraponera. Les
entomologistes apprécieront.*
On 12 November 2016 at 00:13, Tyler Neylon <tylerneylon(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Salut Rudy,
>
> (Traduit de l'anglais par Google translate.)
>
> C'est ok avec moi si vous voulez rayer les noms du site. Je considère que
> toutes les informations là-bas sont publiques.
>
> J'espère que votre initiative va bien! Faites-moi savoir si je peux faire
> autre chose pour aider.
>
> Merci,
> - Tyler
>
> Hi Rudy,
>
> It's ok with me if you'd like to scrape names from the site. I consider
> all the information there to be public.
>
> I hope your initiative goes well! Let me know if I can do anything else to
> help.
>
> thanks,
> - Tyler
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 1:58 PM Rudy Patard <rudy.patard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm a little frenchy with an idea about scientific journals.
>> (project on the french wikiversity
>> <https://fr.wikiversity.org/wiki/Projet:Journal_scientifique_libre>,
>> discussed in English on meta
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Forum&oldid=15283709…>
>> ).
>>
>> I try to build a community of persons from higher education and research
>> (HER) wanting to change their model of publication.
>> I though of using the boycotter's list. Your site however do not indicate
>> how its content can be used.
>> Could you please confirm that we could build a contacts list by
>> extracting the names of the list.
>> (I expect we'll be filling contact informations with corresponding
>> authors e-mails and laboratories / universities websites respective pages).
>>
>> We try to get big enough to get a sufficiently significant productive
>> community that research institution (CNRS, NRC (ca), FNRS (be) ...) and
>> assessment organs (such as http://www.hceres.fr/ for France) won't be
>> able do deny.
>>
>> I want to build and show an alternative dissemination way that can get
>> somebody a position, a tenure, research grants ... in short, make an
>> open-collaborative way that count is attractive and cannot be denied by
>> academia.
>> I also want civil society to get to be associated with this process. This
>> is also one reason to chose wikimedian sites 'wikiversities'.
>>
>> Any tips are welcome of course.
>>
>> Best Regards
>> Rudy
>>
>>
>>
>> *CordialementRudy Patard*
>>
>> *Lille*
>> *06 38 02 53 12 <06%2038%2002%2053%2012>*
>> *Solenopsis invicta, qui ne voudrait pas être** Paraponera. Les
>> entomologistes apprécieront.*
>>
>