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#Acti...
Make a great day, Max Klein ‽ http://notconfusing.com/
There are many open access journals which do not charge fees or any description. See http://www.opendoar.org/ or talk to a friendly librarian to find a journal that meets your needs.
cheers stuart
-- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Maximilian Klein isalix@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#Acti...
Make a great day, Max Klein ‽ http://notconfusing.com/
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The problem is that most of those are not indexed in top tier indexes. For example, my career requires me to publish in SSCI index, and in my field, sociology, do you know how many out of ~120 journals indexed in SSCI are green open access? Zero.
WMF grants exist to make research easier, but they also should take into consideration the realities of academic publishing. Personally, I hate to think that my research goes to support parasites like Elsevier and their ilk, but if I publish in the green open access journals I respect, well, my evaluation from the university bureaucrats will not be very respectful to me. So publishing my wiki research in such venues is not an option.
Of course, you may say that in such case I should not ask for WMF grants at all, but I do not think that we should penalize researchers who are in fields like sociology - it is not their fault that the OA movement hasn't made much inroads in their field (well, it is, to some degree, but that's going OT). Bottom line is that WMF grants should support research and its dissemination in what is seen as quality journals and related outlets, too.
--
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On 6/29/2016 11:01, Stuart A. Yeates wrote:
There are many open access journals which do not charge fees or any description. See http://www.opendoar.org/ or talk to a friendly librarian to find a journal that meets your needs.
cheers stuart
-- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Maximilian Klein <isalix@gmail.com mailto:isalix@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#Activities Make a great day, Max Klein ‽ http://notconfusing.com/ _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
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As a casual reader of this list would it be foolish of me to suggest that you seek funding from a variety of sources and publish the results in a variety of journals? Your methodological skills and depth of personal insight would carry over between academic reality and the open ideal, no?
Best regards -- Ward
On Jun 28, 2016, at 10:38 PM, Piotr Konieczny piokon@post.pl wrote:
The problem is that most of those are not indexed in top tier indexes. For example, my career requires me to publish in SSCI index, and in my field, sociology, do you know how many out of ~120 journals indexed in SSCI are green open access? Zero. WMF grants exist to make research easier, but they also should take into consideration the realities of academic publishing. Personally, I hate to think that my research goes to support parasites like Elsevier and their ilk, but if I publish in the green open access journals I respect, well, my evaluation from the university bureaucrats will not be very respectful to me. So publishing my wiki research in such venues is not an option.
Of course, you may say that in such case I should not ask for WMF grants at all, but I do not think that we should penalize researchers who are in fields like sociology - it is not their fault that the OA movement hasn't made much inroads in their field (well, it is, to some degree, but that's going OT). Bottom line is that WMF grants should support research and its dissemination in what is seen as quality journals and related outlets, too.
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 11:01, Stuart A. Yeates wrote:
There are many open access journals which do not charge fees or any description. See http://www.opendoar.org/ or talk to a friendly librarian to find a journal that meets your needs.
cheers stuart
-- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Maximilian Klein isalix@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#Acti...
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what Piotr wrote. 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.
dj
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 1:38 AM, Piotr Konieczny piokon@post.pl wrote:
The problem is that most of those are not indexed in top tier indexes. For example, my career requires me to publish in SSCI index, and in my field, sociology, do you know how many out of ~120 journals indexed in SSCI are green open access? Zero.
WMF grants exist to make research easier, but they also should take into consideration the realities of academic publishing. Personally, I hate to think that my research goes to support parasites like Elsevier and their ilk, but if I publish in the green open access journals I respect, well, my evaluation from the university bureaucrats will not be very respectful to me. So publishing my wiki research in such venues is not an option.
Of course, you may say that in such case I should not ask for WMF grants at all, but I do not think that we should penalize researchers who are in fields like sociology - it is not their fault that the OA movement hasn't made much inroads in their field (well, it is, to some degree, but that's going OT). Bottom line is that WMF grants should support research and its dissemination in what is seen as quality journals and related outlets, too.
--
Piotr Konieczny, PhDhttp://hanyang.academia.edu/PiotrKoniecznyhttp://scholar.google.com/citation...
On 6/29/2016 11:01, Stuart A. Yeates wrote:
There are many open access journals which do not charge fees or any description. See http://www.opendoar.org/ or talk to a friendly librarian to find a journal that meets your needs.
cheers stuart
-- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Maximilian Klein < isalix@gmail.com isalix@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#Acti...
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Dariusz Jemielniak писал 2016-06-29 15:58:
what Piotr wrote. 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.
dj
Absolutely, we have the same (my field is physics). Some of our top journals are OA, the fees start from Eur 1000, and it is our responsibility to find funding.
Cheers Yaroslav
Piotr Konieczny, 29/06/2016 07:38:
The problem is that most of those are not indexed in top tier indexes. For example, my career requires me to publish in SSCI index, and in my field, sociology, do you know how many out of ~120 journals indexed in SSCI are green open access? Zero.
Uh? I sampled a few journals from http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=SS&... and all of them allowed green OA (according to http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/search.php ). Maybe you meant that none of them is gold OA?
Reminder: https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/How_to_make_your_own_work_open_access
Nemo
Hello,
I think it is a good move that Wikimedia research adopts an open access publishing policy.
But it is true that the high-ranking SSCI journals tend to be traditional ones and that "gold open access" journals have problems getting into SSCI and are in many fields not present at all. In my view there is a reason for it: ISI Thomson's evaluation process is not transparent and it is itself a capitalist/traditional publisher with vested interests in corporate publishing... Things do change in this respect a bit - but very slowly...
There are quite some open access journals that make profit and conduct commerce by charging (partly very high) article processing charges (APCs). Few researchers can afford such fees (only if you are at a rich university, which most people aren't, which especially disadvantages also researchers in developing countries). So I wonder why Wikimedia does not rule out such unfair licences that discriminate and says that publication in journals using APCs is not welcome.
It would be better to add that there should be a preference for non-profit journals - what can be called "diamond open access" journals. Green and gold open access is not enough - we need diamonds to make the open access world shine...
http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/502
Best, Christian
On 09/07/2016 09:33, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Piotr Konieczny, 29/06/2016 07:38:
The problem is that most of those are not indexed in top tier indexes. For example, my career requires me to publish in SSCI index, and in my field, sociology, do you know how many out of ~120 journals indexed in SSCI are green open access? Zero.
Uh? I sampled a few journals from http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=SS&... and all of them allowed green OA (according to http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/search.php ). Maybe you meant that none of them is gold OA?
Reminder: https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/How_to_make_your_own_work_open_access
Nemo
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Max,
This is an issue that I anticipated and feared when we developed the new OA policy (I wasn't directly involved in the development or implementation of said policy).
I don't think you're completely on your own though. Dario's on vacation this week, but I'll make sure to follow up with him as soon as he's back; I bet we can help out here.
Jonathan
On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 6:49 PM, Maximilian Klein isalix@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#Acti...
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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@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#Acti...
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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_...
Sydney
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On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 9:49 PM, Maximilian Klein isalix@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#Acti...
Make a great day, Max Klein ‽ http://notconfusing.com/
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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@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_...
Sydney
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On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 9:49 PM, Maximilian Klein isalix@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#Acti...
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Dear all,
this situation was actually discussed in detail when the policy was drafted, and it is reflected in two parts of the policy: - Under "C. Published Materials. Researchers will publish any output in an Open Access outlet under a Free License.", it states "If a work based on the project is accepted for publication in a peer reviewed outlet that does not make its articles available online, free of charge, and under free licenses, an electronic copy of the author’s accepted manuscript will be submitted to a public and permanently archived repository by the official date of publication, without any embargo period, and released under a Free License." ==> This basically means you can publish in closed-access journals, as long as you make a pre- or postprint openly available. - Under "2. Limited waiver", it states "Specific waivers from the expectations above may be applied in limited circumstances on a case-by-case basis. Researchers wanting a waiver are required to submit to the Wikimedia Foundation, in writing, a detailed explanation of why they require the waiver. The Wikimedia Foundation will publicly post a summary of the request and its response. "
This is also covered in the FAQ, part D, along with limited funding options (cf. https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Open_access_policy/FAQ ).
Cheers, d.
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 10:17 PM, Jonathan Morgan jmorgan@wikimedia.org wrote:
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@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_...
Sydney
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On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 9:49 PM, Maximilian Klein isalix@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#Acti...
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Hi Daniel,
Thank you for the information. There are still aspects of implementation that are unclear to me, and perhaps for others as well. Please see below.
Best, Jonathan
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 5:48 PM, Daniel Mietchen < daniel.mietchen@googlemail.com> wrote:
Dear all,
this situation was actually discussed in detail when the policy was drafted, and it is reflected in two parts of the policy:
- Under "C. Published Materials. Researchers will publish any output
in an Open Access outlet under a Free License.", it states "If a work based on the project is accepted for publication in a peer reviewed outlet that does not make its articles available online, free of charge, and under free licenses, an electronic copy of the author’s accepted manuscript will be submitted to a public and permanently archived repository by the official date of publication, without any embargo period, and released under a Free License." ==> This basically means you can publish in closed-access journals, as long as you make a pre- or postprint openly available.
Any pointers on what consistutes a pre-print? Perhaps Aaron Halfaker can speak to this. I know he went through this dance with SAGE for the Rise and Decline paper. https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/publications/The_Rise_and_Decline/halfaker13rise-preprint.pdf
- Under "2. Limited waiver", it states
"Specific waivers from the expectations above may be applied in limited circumstances on a case-by-case basis. Researchers wanting a waiver are required to submit to the Wikimedia Foundation, in writing, a detailed explanation of why they require the waiver. The Wikimedia Foundation will publicly post a summary of the request and its response. "
Who at WMF should these waivers be submitted to? Who reviews and responds? What are the consequences if the exemption is not granted?
This is also covered in the FAQ, part D, along with limited funding options (cf. https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Open_access_policy/FAQ ).
Cheers, d.
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 10:17 PM, Jonathan Morgan jmorgan@wikimedia.org wrote:
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@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_...
Sydney
Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wiki Project Med Foundation WikiWomen's User Group Facebook https://www.facebook.com/sydney.e.poore
On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 9:49 PM, Maximilian Klein isalix@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]
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Hi Daniel,
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 5:48 PM, Daniel Mietchen < daniel.mietchen@googlemail.com> wrote:
Dear all,
this situation was actually discussed in detail when the policy was drafted, and it is reflected in two parts of the policy:
- Under "C. Published Materials. Researchers will publish any output
in an Open Access outlet under a Free License.", it states "If a work based on the project is accepted for publication in a peer reviewed outlet that does not make its articles available online, free of charge, and under free licenses, an electronic copy of the author’s accepted manuscript will be submitted to a public and permanently archived repository by the official date of publication, without any embargo period, and released under a Free License." ==> This basically means you can publish in closed-access journals, as long as you make a pre- or postprint openly available.
To clarify: Under the OA policy you are expected to publish the post-print version, and if you cannot, you should ask for a limited waiver. This is explained in Section D, Question 1 in the FAQ https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Open_access_policy/FAQ.
Best, Leila
Cheers,
d.
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 10:17 PM, Jonathan Morgan jmorgan@wikimedia.org wrote:
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@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_...
Sydney
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On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 9:49 PM, Maximilian Klein isalix@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#Acti...
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Hi all,
Just a note to re-acknowledge that we have received the questions on this thread and you should expect a response from us by Friday, July 8.
Max, if you are working against a deadline that cannot wait until July 8, please ping me off-list and I'm happy to chat with you more about it.
Best, Leila
-- Leila Zia Research Scientist Wikimedia Foundation
On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Leila Zia leila@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Daniel,
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 5:48 PM, Daniel Mietchen < daniel.mietchen@googlemail.com> wrote:
Dear all,
this situation was actually discussed in detail when the policy was drafted, and it is reflected in two parts of the policy:
- Under "C. Published Materials. Researchers will publish any output
in an Open Access outlet under a Free License.", it states "If a work based on the project is accepted for publication in a peer reviewed outlet that does not make its articles available online, free of charge, and under free licenses, an electronic copy of the author’s accepted manuscript will be submitted to a public and permanently archived repository by the official date of publication, without any embargo period, and released under a Free License." ==> This basically means you can publish in closed-access journals, as long as you make a pre- or postprint openly available.
To clarify: Under the OA policy you are expected to publish the post-print version, and if you cannot, you should ask for a limited waiver. This is explained in Section D, Question 1 in the FAQ https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Open_access_policy/FAQ.
Best, Leila
Cheers,
d.
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 10:17 PM, Jonathan Morgan jmorgan@wikimedia.org wrote:
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@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_...
Sydney
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On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 9:49 PM, Maximilian Klein isalix@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#Acti...
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Since we haven't sent a response on the thread for now, I'll share what I know and hopefully we can continue the discussion.
Here are few questions I could gather from the discussions on this thread:
* Do we have a definition for pre-print? We have a working definition but this is not documented anywhere mostly because the OA policy encourages the publication of post-print, and not pre-print: Section D of the FAQ says: "We encourage all authors to deposit post-print manuscripts when possible." and that if the author(s) are going with pre-print (think about it as anything other than post-print), they should apply for the waiver. We have made a note to define and add it, probably to the FAQ https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Open_access_policy/FAQ.
* Do the WMF grants cover the OA fees? This question is best answered by Kacie. My understanding as a researcher working with her is the following: Starting some time in winter 2016, when we consider funding research through grants, we want to ensure that we have funding to support the publication of research that is subject to the OA policy before providing funding. I'm not sure what the situation is for grants approved before this rough time.
* Can one apply for WMF grants to cover OA fees for a research that was not funded by WMF but is about Wikimedia projects? Again, Kacie will be the person who can give the definitive response here. When we discussed this last few months ago, the conclusion was that we don't want to enter this area for now, given that there is at least one constraint and that is the budget for grants, and given this constraint, we want to make sure we work with those who we give grants to, to make sure their work is licensed in a way compatible with the OA policy.
I hope this helps.
Best, Leila
Leila Zia Research Scientist Wikimedia Foundation
On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Leila Zia leila@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi all,
Just a note to re-acknowledge that we have received the questions on this thread and you should expect a response from us by Friday, July 8.
Max, if you are working against a deadline that cannot wait until July 8, please ping me off-list and I'm happy to chat with you more about it.
Best, Leila
-- Leila Zia Research Scientist Wikimedia Foundation
On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Leila Zia leila@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Daniel,
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 5:48 PM, Daniel Mietchen < daniel.mietchen@googlemail.com> wrote:
Dear all,
this situation was actually discussed in detail when the policy was drafted, and it is reflected in two parts of the policy:
- Under "C. Published Materials. Researchers will publish any output
in an Open Access outlet under a Free License.", it states "If a work based on the project is accepted for publication in a peer reviewed outlet that does not make its articles available online, free of charge, and under free licenses, an electronic copy of the author’s accepted manuscript will be submitted to a public and permanently archived repository by the official date of publication, without any embargo period, and released under a Free License." ==> This basically means you can publish in closed-access journals, as long as you make a pre- or postprint openly available.
To clarify: Under the OA policy you are expected to publish the post-print version, and if you cannot, you should ask for a limited waiver. This is explained in Section D, Question 1 in the FAQ https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Open_access_policy/FAQ.
Best, Leila
Cheers,
d.
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 10:17 PM, Jonathan Morgan jmorgan@wikimedia.org wrote:
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@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_...
Sydney
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On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 9:49 PM, Maximilian Klein isalix@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#Acti...
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I totally agree with "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. "
If you get money from WMF, you should publish in OA, and part of that WMF money should be used for exactly that. This should be clearly understood, explained, and budgeted for from the very start. Problem solved.
--
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On 6/30/2016 05:17, Jonathan Morgan wrote:
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@gmail.com mailto:sydney.poore@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_funding_for_paper_on_Wikipedia_in_classroom Sydney Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wiki Project Med Foundation WikiWomen's User Group Facebook https://www.facebook.com/sydney.e.poore On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 9:49 PM, Maximilian Klein <isalix@gmail.com <mailto:isalix@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#Activities Make a great day, Max Klein ‽ http://notconfusing.com/ _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l-- Jonathan T. Morgan Senior Design Researcher Wikimedia Foundation User:Jmorgan (WMF) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_%28WMF%29
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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?
--
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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#Acti...
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Good question and idea! 29.06.2016 10:46 PM "Piotr Konieczny" piokon@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/citation...
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#Acti...
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