Yaroslav,
How do you feel about the system of compulsory royalties they have to pay
for both academic journals and news journalism in Germany? See e.g.
In the U.S., we pay musicians for their works played on the radio, in
public venues, and pirated, all out of taxpayer funds. Does anyone
understand why we don't pay journalist and scientists the same way?
Best regards,
Jim
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 1:52 PM Yaroslav Blanter <ymbalt(a)gmail.com> wrote:
As an actively publishing researcher, I just know that
mandating open
access publishing would mean that the author pays the (huge) publication
fee rather than the library pays the subscription. In an ideal world, the
universities would refund the fees, and will get subsidy from the
governments, In our real world, the researchers will have to pay everything
out of their own pocket, with some of them losing all possibilities to
publish, for the lack of funds. I tried to raise this before, and the
universal reply was that this is my problem, not the problem of the
society. I do not expect anything else this time.
Cheers
Yaroslav
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:34 PM Shani Evenstein <shani.even(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Jake, well written and nicely put.
Is this online somewhere, where we can share it further?
Best,
Shani.
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On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:27 PM Pete Forsyth <peteforsyth(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Jake,
>
> How can we most effectively support your excellent effort with this?
>
> -Pete
> --
> Pete Forsyth
> User:Peteforsyth on Meta, English Wikisource, English Wikipedia, etc.
>
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 1:22 PM Tito Dutta <trulytito(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > Very well-written and well-supported by statistics. Thanks for
sharing.
>
Regards.
> User:Titodutta
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020, 1:41 AM Jake Orlowitz <jorlowitz(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> >
> > > My Letter to the U.S. Office for Science and Technology Policy
> regarding
> > a
> > > proposal for federally mandate open access to publicly-funded
> research...
> > >
> > > ---
> > >
> > > Wikipedia is one of the ten most popular websites in the world.
Each
> > month
> > > 200,000 editors improve over 6 million articles. This vital public
> > > information is viewed on 1 billion unique devices as our pages are
> loaded
> > > by people around the globe 7,000 times per second.
> > >
> > > Wikipedia is the "free encyclopedia", both in its open CC-BY-SA
> licensing
> > > as well as the unpaid contributions of its volunteer editors. Yet
> > > Wikipedia's hundreds of thousands of editors struggle to access
> scholarly
> > > research. And, if they are able to read and cite it, then hundreds
of
> > > millions of readers cannot verify
or explore it for deeper
research.
>
>
> > Citations are the bridge between Wikipedia articles and a broader
> landscape
> > of reliable, secondary sources. Citations not only allow readers to
> verify
> > the reliability of the facts they find in Wikipedia; through
citations
> > readers can also deep-dive into any
given topic by exploring the
books,
> > scholarly publications, and news
stories referenced in an article.
> >
> > A recently released dataset of all citations with identifiers in
> Wikipedia
> > found that less than half of the official versions of scholarly
> > publications cited with an identifier in Wikipedia are freely
available
> > on
> > > the web. This chasm of for editors and for readers is a tragedy of
> public
> > > education and digital literacy.
> > >
> > > Just look at the most recent global catastrophe with Coronavirus.
By
>
April
> > 2020 the main articles on COVID-19 had received 50 million views.
> > Wikipedia's medical content--made up of more than 155,000 articles
and
> 1
> > > billion bytes of text across more than 255 languages--has been
ranked
> as
> > > one of the top-3 most viewed sources for medical information on the
> > entire
> > > internet.
> > >
> > > References are essential to the public's trust in Wikipedia.
Indeed,
> > > Wikipedia's medical content is
supported by 757,855 references in
> English
> > > and 1,596,528 in other languages, for a total of 2,354,383 across
all
> >
languages. In English 168,985 have a PMID while 261,850 do in other
> > languages. This means at least 430,835 references are journal
articles.
>
> What happens when those journal articles lie behind a paywall? The
public
> > suffers from a dearth of good information to make decisions about
their
> > > lives as independent citizens and members of a global community.
> > >
> > > As founder of The Wikipedia Library, I arranged partnerships with
> dozens
> > of
> > > leading scholarly journals, to give Wikipedia editors free access
to
>
their
> > reliable content and so they would be able to do effective and
rigorous
> > > research. This time-intensive process took 6 years to amass access
to
only
> 1/5th of the most highly regarded academic publications. Frankly,
Wikipedia
> editors--volunteers who selflessly give of their intelligence and
passion
> > to educate--should not have to beg and borrow to access
publicly-funded
> > > research. Readers should not hit paywalls when they are seeking
> > > citizen-supported knowledge.
> > >
> > > I implore you to make the bold but entirely reasonable decision and
> > ensure
> > > that taxpayers have access to the vital scientific and scholarly
> studies
> > > that they themselves fund. This is not only sensible, it is
essential
> to
> > > civic health, societal progress, and human flourishing.
> > >
> > >
> > > Sincerely,
> > > Jake Orlowitz
> > > Founder of The Wikipedia Library
> > >
> > >
> > > ---
> > >
> > > "Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Publications, Data and
Code
> Resulting From Federally Funded Research"
>
>
>
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/02/19/2020-03189/request-for…
> >
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