Hi all,
A question elsewhere about doai.io reminded me of this, and that no-one ever replied. So, a reply :-)
It would certainly be nice to support green OA (which, historically, we've not always paid very much attention to...).
I think *switching* to replace dx.doi.org might be a bad idea. For example, it's a hassle for anyone who does have access and wishes to see the original copy rather than a MS version. Before switching, we'd also need a better understanding of how often it updates/confirms archived copies are still available, or whether the original has become accessible (consider a PNAS paper; they have a moving wall, so in the first six months you'd want a self-archived copy, and after that would prefer the journal.)
But we can still use it.
Some options:
a) We display a second "free copy, if available" link after the DOI, for all DOIs, trusting that it will fail safely - it probably will; see, eg, http://doai.io/10.1093/femsle/fnw043
b) We process our list of DOIs which exist on-wiki, look them up through doai.io & dx.doi.org, flag all the ones where the two differ; then add a "free copy available" link to these citations in particular. Run every few months as needed.
The first raises false optimism; the second might involve a lot of update editing. But they're workable.
Thoughts?
A.
On 28 February 2016 at 14:36, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Should our wikis use it? http://doai.io/
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Thanks for the answer.
On green OA I also said something passim at http://bjoern.brembs.net/2016/04/how-gold-open-access-may-make-things-worse/...
Andrew Gray, 12/04/2016 13:34:
The first raises false optimism; the second might involve a lot of update editing. But they're workable.
Thoughts?
Personally I prefer template editing over mass editing, although duplicating links may be slightly noisy. I think one should just go the way which is most easily accepted in their wiki. Perhaps the same parameter that controls the "OA button" could also control the hiding of either DOI link? This would produce another incentive to mark DOIs as closed access, green OA or gold OA. In principle there is a mid way, i.e. a MediaWiki resolver (e.g. a special page, implemented in a new extension) which would handle all DOI links and redirect to either DOAI or DOI depending on what is available. Something similar exists for the wayback machine, but was not implemented yet in MediaWiki.
Nemo
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