2011/7/19 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com
So. What can we do to help take out the proprietary journal system?
1. Openly support the OA movement, partecipating in conferences, making public statements, addressing the issue to the community. We discuss with them on the "interoperability" of the our movements, as to say we tell them using clear licenses (CC-BY) is *fundamental*. 2. Discuss about a technical framework for publicize OA papers in Wikipedia.
Couldn't we harvest OA articles from institutional and subject repositories, and even from OA journals, covering both green and Gold Open access? Couldn't we show dynamic lists of OA articles in the Reference sections of our Wikipedia articles, generated by keyword and language? All OA articles have these metadata in Dublin Core, it would be easy to filter them and create those dynamic lists.
(I'm not sure about a Wikipedia policy on "preferring" OA sources, it could conflict something else)
We could even bulk upload every article we find that is in CC-BY on Commons, to store it there (and when we find a solution for uploading them on Wikisource, we should do it too)(yes, we should need a metadata/OAI-PMH framework for us, but I don't think is such a big deal).
(these are just ideas, feel free to dump them :-)
Aubrey