Good question and idea!
29.06.2016 10:46 PM "Piotr Konieczny" <piokon(a)post.pl> napisał(a):
I have a related question: if I have a
Wikipedia-research paper, and never
applied for any grants from WMF or such, how time consuming and difficult
would it be to apply for a grant for the sole purpose of ensuring that my
paper is published in an OA outlet? To quote Dariusz for the context, "If
you're a scholar at a research-driven institution, the chances are you are
required to publish in SSCI (JCR) journals. The typical OA fees for the
journals listed there are 1,000-2,000 USD." Currently I just publish in
closed access with whatever pre- and post publishing I can, because I was
never able to figure out much about the grant system, WMF or otherwise.
(Fortunately, my own research is very cheap). But the thought of WMF
promoting Wikipedia research by making related papers OA through covering
said OA fees is interesting, not only for me but I think it would be
beneficial for the community. I will end up saying that as a regular
Wikimedia Research Newsletter contributor, we get a lot of non-OA research,
including on items that would be interesting for the community members to
read, from best practices in teaching to studies on vandalism, reputation,
etc. Currently many of such studies are locked behind paywalls, with no pre
pr post prints. Educating people about those is one thing, but being able
to tell them that WMF has grants to make their work OA would be another
good argument to have in our arsenal. Any thoughts on that?
--
Piotr Konieczny,
PhDhttp://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKoniecznyhttp://scholar.google.com/cita…
On 6/29/2016 10:49, Maximilian Klein wrote:
Hello All,
As you might know WMF has an Open Access Policy that requires all work
that they fund to be Open Access[1]. A strange consequence of this policy,
that I recently ran into, is that it requires researchers funded by grants
to publish OA -- but without providing any funding to do so. That is, I
recently completed an Individual Engagement Grant (IEG), part of whose
scope was explicitly to write a paper about the work[2], and when I wrote
to WMF to acquire funds for OA publishing, they confirmed that the paper
was under the OA mandate but indicated that funds were not available to pay
for OA publishing.
Has anyone else use WMF's Open Access Policy? What was your experience?
[1]
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Open_access_policy
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/WIGI:_Wikipedia_Gender_Index#Act…
Make a great day,
Max Klein ‽
http://notconfusing.com/
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