Thanks, Sydney and Pine.
This is timely, as Resources is currently re-vamping their instructions for
grant proposals (including research-focused grants). So it's a good time to
hammer out our policy and process here.
Max: if you're willing to ping me off-list and relate some of the details
of your conversation, that will help me follow up on the particular issue
you're facing right now.
I want this to be clear and easy for grantees going forward—if WMF is
funding research, we should be prepared to support the dissemination of
that research in a way that aligns with our values. In the future, I would
like to see grantees budget anticipated OA fees into their requests, and a
process for vetting this during the proposal review period.
I know there has been some conversation between Research and Resources
around this issue in the past, but I don't know if there were decisions
made... more likely I'll need to start it back up again. We're all still
working out the kinks in the OA policy (even staff researchers are trying
to understand the ramifications for our work).
I'll make sure to notify this list when I learn more.
Jonathan
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Sydney Poore <sydney.poore(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi Max,
This issue was discussed in the context of a paper about Wikipedia working
with medical students in the classroom.
See the talk page and endorsements for the discussion that led to the
grant being approved. .
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/bluerasberry/open_access_release…
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On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 9:49 PM, Maximilian Klein <isalix(a)gmail.com>
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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