Hi Jackie! Thank you for asking – I should have started with that.
My current vision for the end product is for a short report, aimed for decision-makers in the Swedish university world. Too many of them simply don't understand what the public would do with access to research, and consider it an intra-academic ideological question with few practical implications. Since Wikipedia depends on access to good sources and we're an important interface between research and the general public, we could be a good specific example of why open access matters. Part of this would preferably be specific to Sweden and Swedish Wikipedia, for local impact, but it'd be very helpful if we could have more existing material to build on – basically do a rewrite instead of reinventing the wheel, and see if there's research on Wikipedia and OA we should incorporate.
If they have Wikipedia-specific material about OA, it would be very helpful, but the angle I'm looking for here is less to present arguments by researchers who approve of OA – the target audience will have met those before – unless those arguments come in the form of information about how Wikipedia uses open access research. (:
//Johan Jönsson
(in his volunteer capacity)
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