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, PhD
http://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKonieczny
http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gdV8_AEAAAAJ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Piotrus
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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