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OPEN *Highbeam: 100+ accounts for newspapers and magazines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:HighBeam *Questia: 100+ accounts for various aggregated journals and social science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Questia *JSTOR: 100+ accounts for journal archives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:JSTOR
Accounts are available to ALL global editors with a 1 year old account and 1000 edits. Please notify your local community about the signups. Signups for now are mostly on English Wikipedia, UNLESS you have started a local Wikipedia Library branch like we've done on Arabic, Chinese, and German. To get started, please contact Ocaasi at [[m:User:Ocaasi (WMF)]] or ocaasi@wikimedia.org
Thanks!
The Wikipedia Library Team http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library
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
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Jake Orlowitz jorlowitz@gmail.com wrote:
Hi! The Wikipedia Library has new, free research donations available:
NEW *DeGruyter: 1000 accounts for English and German-language research, sign up on one of two language Wikipedias: English signup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:De_Gruyter German signup https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:De_Gruyter *Fold3: 100 accounts for American history and military archives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fold3 *Scotland's People: 100 accounts for Scottish Genealogy database https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ScotlandsPeople
EXPANDED *British Newspaper Archive: 100+ new accounts for British Newspapers archives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BNA
OPEN *Highbeam: 100+ accounts for newspapers and magazines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:HighBeam *Questia: 100+ accounts for various aggregated journals and social science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Questia *JSTOR: 100+ accounts for journal archives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:JSTOR
Accounts are available to ALL global editors with a 1 year old account and 1000 edits. Please notify your local community about the signups. Signups for now are mostly on English Wikipedia, UNLESS you have started a local Wikipedia Library branch like we've done on Arabic, Chinese, and German. To get started, please contact Ocaasi at [[m:User:Ocaasi (WMF)]] or ocaasi@wikimedia.org
Thanks!
The Wikipedia Library Team http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library
OpenAccess mailing list OpenAccess@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/openaccess
Hi Mitar,
You know I think it's sad too that we have to go around asking for donations and selling Wikipedia's value as a portal to publishers. On the other hand, we have 500 million monthly readers and when they come to Wikipedia they will see the content we have summarized from sources. The only question is whether that content is from full-text-available-online sources *only*, or from all of the best sources regardless of their access status.
At the end of my day, I have to serve our editors and readers as best I can and that means giving them as much access to the best research as possible today. You may think this is a devil's bargain, but I have to admit that I'm a pragmatist and I'd rather have our editors summarize paywalled content for our readers than for that content to not be represented on Wikipedia at all, even if readers may hit a paywall when they click-through.
It's long been Wikipedia's policy (at least English Wikipedia) that accessibility is not a deciding factor when it comes to what is a reliable source. That applies to out of print manuscripts as well as to embargoed journals--we use the best sources now because we have an encyclopedia to write. If we aim to change that, it requires a very deep discussion about how we prioritize and strategize our mission.
I do whatever I can to support OA, to tweet about open access button efforts, to promote WikiProject Resource Exchange, to support the OA signalling project, to engage with initiatives like the Open Access reader, and to discuss the broader mission of sharing knowledge with reference experts and journals. The tides are changing and I see it daily as I speak with librarians and journal publishers.
In other words, the efforts of The Wikipedia Library advance our mission and are indeed *complementary* to the radical vision of open access that I wholeheartedly support.
So, I hope you take this as my saying, "I agree completely" and also "So what, we have an encyclopedia to write!"
Happy to continue discussing this.
Best, Jake (Ocaasi)
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 6:42 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
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Jake Orlowitz jorlowitz@gmail.com wrote:
Hi! The Wikipedia Library has new, free research donations available:
NEW *DeGruyter: 1000 accounts for English and German-language research, sign
up
on one of two language Wikipedias: English signup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:De_Gruyter German signup https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:De_Gruyter *Fold3: 100 accounts for American history and military archives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fold3 *Scotland's People: 100 accounts for Scottish Genealogy database https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ScotlandsPeople
EXPANDED *British Newspaper Archive: 100+ new accounts for British Newspapers archives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BNA
OPEN *Highbeam: 100+ accounts for newspapers and magazines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:HighBeam *Questia: 100+ accounts for various aggregated journals and social
science
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Questia *JSTOR: 100+ accounts for journal archives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:JSTOR
Accounts are available to ALL global editors with a 1 year old account
and
1000 edits. Please notify your local community about the signups.
Signups
for now are mostly on English Wikipedia, UNLESS you have started a local Wikipedia Library branch like we've done on Arabic, Chinese, and
German. To
get started, please contact Ocaasi at [[m:User:Ocaasi (WMF)]] or ocaasi@wikimedia.org
Thanks!
The Wikipedia Library Team http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library
OpenAccess mailing list OpenAccess@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/openaccess
-- http://mitar.tnode.com/ https://twitter.com/mitar_m
OpenAccess mailing list OpenAccess@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/openaccess
Hi!
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Jake Orlowitz jorlowitz@gmail.com wrote:
So, I hope you take this as my saying, "I agree completely" and also "So what, we have an encyclopedia to write!"
We have a *free* encyclopedia to write!
Mitar
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
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Jake Orlowitz jorlowitz@gmail.com wrote:
Hi! The Wikipedia Library has new, free research donations available:
NEW *DeGruyter: 1000 accounts for English and German-language research, sign
up
on one of two language Wikipedias: English signup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:De_Gruyter German signup https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:De_Gruyter *Fold3: 100 accounts for American history and military archives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fold3 *Scotland's People: 100 accounts for Scottish Genealogy database https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ScotlandsPeople
EXPANDED *British Newspaper Archive: 100+ new accounts for British Newspapers archives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BNA
OPEN *Highbeam: 100+ accounts for newspapers and magazines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:HighBeam *Questia: 100+ accounts for various aggregated journals and social
science
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Questia *JSTOR: 100+ accounts for journal archives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:JSTOR
Accounts are available to ALL global editors with a 1 year old account
and
1000 edits. Please notify your local community about the signups.
Signups
for now are mostly on English Wikipedia, UNLESS you have started a local Wikipedia Library branch like we've done on Arabic, Chinese, and
German. To
get started, please contact Ocaasi at [[m:User:Ocaasi (WMF)]] or ocaasi@wikimedia.org
Thanks!
The Wikipedia Library Team http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library
OpenAccess mailing list OpenAccess@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/openaccess
-- http://mitar.tnode.com/ https://twitter.com/mitar_m
GLAM mailing list GLAM@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam
Sorry no. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia not a forum to further a political goal.
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014, 18:42 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
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Jake Orlowitz jorlowitz@gmail.com wrote:
Hi! The Wikipedia Library has new, free research donations available:
NEW *DeGruyter: 1000 accounts for English and German-language research, sign
up
on one of two language Wikipedias: English signup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:De_Gruyter German signup https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:De_Gruyter *Fold3: 100 accounts for American history and military archives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fold3 *Scotland's People: 100 accounts for Scottish Genealogy database https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ScotlandsPeople
EXPANDED *British Newspaper Archive: 100+ new accounts for British Newspapers archives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BNA
OPEN *Highbeam: 100+ accounts for newspapers and magazines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:HighBeam *Questia: 100+ accounts for various aggregated journals and social
science
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Questia *JSTOR: 100+ accounts for journal archives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:JSTOR
Accounts are available to ALL global editors with a 1 year old account
and
1000 edits. Please notify your local community about the signups.
Signups
for now are mostly on English Wikipedia, UNLESS you have started a local Wikipedia Library branch like we've done on Arabic, Chinese, and
German. To
get started, please contact Ocaasi at [[m:User:Ocaasi (WMF)]] or ocaasi@wikimedia.org
Thanks!
The Wikipedia Library Team http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library
OpenAccess mailing list OpenAccess@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/openaccess
-- http://mitar.tnode.com/ https://twitter.com/mitar_m
Libraries mailing list Libraries@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries
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