Thanks Jonathan.
Max, just a question. Where were you told that "the paper was under the OA
mandate but indicated that funds were not available to pay for OA
publishing."? This sounds like something that may need some additional
thought from Grantmaking. I looked for a discussion on the WGI talk page
but that discussion isn't there. I'm too stretched with other commitments
to escalate this issue myself, but if the combination of issues is as
described in this email thread then this issue might be good for
Grantmaking to consider in light of the bigger picture.
Thanks,
Pine
On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 6:49 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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