On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 10:18 PM, Amgine <amgine(a)wikimedians.ca> wrote:
I could imagine an entire digression on encouraging
projects to use open
access references. It's not always easy to find the open access editions of
articles. Most of my partner's research is available via open access, but
you'd never know that from google scholar[1].
I don't think that's fully appropriate for this list (both off-topic and we
don't have the right people here), but I'm curious where else (if anywhere)
such a discussion would make sense - wikimedia-l? Key village pumps?
On another point, having a policy at a given wikipedia
supporting open
access research (and a growing number of governments require publicly
funded research be published open access - pretty much 100% of the US
National Institutes of Health research for example) only affects that
specific wiki. Nice, but it would be nicer if it were a translingual effort.
Again, slightly OT here, so maybe direct responses just to me, but I'm
curious how folks think that might be done in a translingual way. As far as
I can see, short of a board policy there isn't much way to create such a
translingual policy. (We could, of course, hardcode certain open access
sources for special treatment in the code, but that seems like an inelegant
solution to me.)
By the way, for those of you interested in this and going to Wikimania,
they've called open access "open scholarship" and there are quite a few
interesting/relevant tracks, including:
https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Marking_open-access_re…
Luis
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