On Sun, 2021-09-19 at 12:17 +0300, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
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The Wikidata community also can't benefit from those publications unless they're made (libre) open access, so I think it would be fair to require all the papers will be OA (preferably) or explaining how the authors can archive them (for free) under a free license (libre green OA) à la: https://www.coalition-s.org/rights-retention-strategy/ https://cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/How_to_make_your_own_work_open_access
I think this is too strong. There is no reason that the Wikidata community cannot benefit from publications in venues that are not open access. Of course open access makes publications more accessible and more in line with Wikidata goals but to my mind a publication that is not open access can provide a benefit to the Wikidata community.
From a search https://link.lens.org/AFeru5oPGdg it's easy to find good and bad examples. Bad is e.g.https://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-web-semantics/1570-8268/guide-f...
(claims embargos and all sorts of restrictions), rather good is e.g. https://aclanthology.org/venues/emnlp/ (https://aclanthology.org/faq/ states CC-BY).
I think that you should have searched further and found out more about the open access policy of the Journal of Web Semantics. In https://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-web-semantics/1570-8268/open-ac... there is "In accordance with funding body requirements, Elsevier does offer alternative open access publishing options. Visit our open access page for full information."
Federico
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