> Below is a message I received from one of the researchers requesting support
> for subject recruitment. I'm forwarding his questions because I think they
> get to the point of some of our discussions about sharing datasets and the
> redistribution of manuscripts produced as a result of a study.
> I'd like to recommend that Michael withhold his dataset until he feels
> comfortable publishing it, but I have been advising him that he is unlikely
> to get scooped on the results of a survey he performed. I don't feel
> comfortable suggesting that he risk the rewards of his work against his own
> judgement.
> As for the reuse rights. It seems like we have discussed this and decided
> that studies that simply come to RCom for help vetting their proposed
> research would not need to provide rights to distribute the manuscript. As
> a side-note, it is important that the language he references is changed to
> specify that the right to "adapt" the manuscript is not passed on to the
> Wikimedia Foundation. I'd like to tell him that this requirement does not
> apply to him since he did not receive substantial support, but on the other
> hand, he research plan involves contacting a rather large amount of
> Wikipedians. Thoughts?
> -Aaron
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Michael Tsikerdekis <
tsikerdekis@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 2:13 PM
> Subject: Re: University Email account
> To: Aaron Halfaker <
aaron.halfaker@gmail.com>
>
>
> Hey Aaron,
> first of all thanks for all the support with the project. I started
> reviewing a couple of things so that i can have everything ready when the
> time comes. I need your help with a couple of things.
>
> First, i decided to publish the open data under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 licence. I
> don't believe that there will be anyone that would actually claim the
> research analysis as there own based on someone else's survey. I do hope
> though that people might in the future reuse the data and cross-reference it
> with data from other research surveys. Do you think i should put anything in
> the data page like "data can be used for publishing in a scientific journal
> after the author of the survey publishes the results first"? Or does it
> sound dumb and i am being paranoid? :-)
>
> The second thing is about the reuse rights "The author(s) of the manuscript
> retains a non-exclusive right to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt their
> work, and grants WMF a non-exclusive right to do the same"
> Most journals(if not all) grant an non-exclusive right for the author. I
> have no idea how to grant the same right to the WMF. I can put WMF as a
> co-author, but can you put an organization as a co-author? I could send an
> email to the journal when the time comes but i was wondering if you already
> know anything about it.
>
> Mike
>