Excellent initiative, Federico.
I am wondering if this could be partly automated to make it scale (detect the citation of a new DOI > extract the author contact email > check if a preprint is available > if not, trigger an email to the author).
In the future, a social media bot will simultaneously (publicly) notify the author, if the handle can identified and is reliably stored in Wikidata.
On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 11:39 PM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
Agree it is a great initiative. Many authors retain the rights to host a version of their paper via their own website or institution. This is improving "free access" rather than changing the underlying license to "open access".
James
On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 1:54 AM, Jake Orlowitz jorlowitz@wikimedia.org wrote:
Federico,
This is a really neat initiative and brings together a lot of thinking around oa repositories, indexes, apis, citation practices, and author engagement.
I have one request if you don't mind...
*Could you share the email text that you're using to send to authors with this group?*
I am not concerned if publishers don't like this project, but I wouldn't want them to be upset* just because* language gave them a misunderstanding about how Wikipedia treats copyright (which is we treat it appropriately, and share freely whenever possible).
Thank you, Jake Orlowitz Wikipedia Library
On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 9:15 AM John G. Dove johngdove@gmail.com wrote:
Federico, This is great news! You are showing the way. I look forward to many more such initiatives, not just in Wikipedia, but anywhere people look for access to knowledge. The "brand" of Wikipedia is all about having "every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge". There are many organizations, commercial and otherwise, that espouse a commitment to "open". Finally you (and the shoulders you are standing on) are showing how we can systematically message authors to share. This has the real possibility of breaking the monopoly control and pricing of access to knowledge.
Good job.
-john dove
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On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 4:49 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) < nemowiki@gmail.com> wrote:
As a reminder of the link I sent earlier:
Federico Leva (Nemo), 28/05/2017 12:15:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:The_Wikipedia_Library# Poke_authors_via_Dissemin
This is going on, thanks to oaDOI/Dissemin improvements and some committed Wikimedia Italia members. Updates will continue in https://github.com/dissemin/dissemin/issues/251
If you want to help, apart from suggestions on messaging improvements, here are some issues I found with the various OAI-PMH endpoints and metadata crawlers: https://github.com/dissemin/dissemin/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93& q=False%20is%3Aissue%20is%3Aopen%20 https://github.com/Impactstory/oadoi/issues
Especially Wiley has a really poor coverage in their OAI-PMH endpoint it seems.
Nemo
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