Folks,
Even though I know most of cringe when we find a source that is behind a paywall, I think that we should treat it as marginally better than a offline source. For those, Wikipedia:Offline sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Offline_sources states "Wikipedia's reliable sources guideline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources states that articles should be sourced with reliable, third-party, published sources. *Even though Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia, there is no distinction between using online versus offline sources."* (Source emphasis, not mine)
This is what I do for such citations.
1. I add "{{closed access}} " (including that space) before the citation template. 2. I set the parameter |subscription=yes 3. If there is an OCLC # available, I set the parameter |oclc= so that a reader can go find the print source in a library. 4. If it is appropriate to include the parameter |issn= along with or instead of the |oclc= parameter, then I use that.
For some universities, colleges, & libraries, access to some online database will be free to their students / faculty / staff / patrons, so there definitely is a value to including to URL or DOI for those cases.
Yours, Peaceray -- User:Peaceray
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Mitar mmitar@gmail.com wrote:
Hi!
This reminds me of ugly practices of proprietary software companies giving free software to students so that they are able to learn the tools and then later on have to pay. So we will be making links to paywalled journals and we will be able to do it for free, but then our readers will have to pay to read them? So Wikipedia will provide free advertisements for paywalled content? Nicely done, nicely done.
This is not open access. This direct opposite to open access. We should not be proud of this.
(Please don't take this as an attack on anybody personally and I think The Wikipedia Library Team is doing a great job, but I really feel this is a bad deal. And it was sent to the open access mailing list. Which this is not.)
Mitar
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