Hi!

This reminds me of ugly practices of proprietary software companies giving free software to students so that they are able to learn the tools and then later on have to pay. So we will be making links to paywalled journals and we will be able to do it for free, but then our readers will have to pay to read them? So Wikipedia will provide free advertisements for paywalled content? Nicely done, nicely done.

This is not open access. This direct opposite to open access. We should not be proud of this.

(Please don't take this as an attack on anybody personally and I think The Wikipedia Library Team is doing a great job, but I really feel this is a bad deal. And it was sent to the open access mailing list. Which this is not.)

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On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Jake Orlowitz jorlowitz@gmail.com wrote:

Hi! The Wikipedia Library has new, free research donations available:

NEW *DeGruyter: 1000 accounts for English and German-language research, sign up on one of two language Wikipedias: English signup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:De_Gruyter German signup https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:De_Gruyter *Fold3: 100 accounts for American history and military archives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fold3 *Scotland's People: 100 accounts for Scottish Genealogy database https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ScotlandsPeople

EXPANDED *British Newspaper Archive: 100+ new accounts for British Newspapers archives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BNA

OPEN *Highbeam: 100+ accounts for newspapers and magazines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:HighBeam *Questia: 100+ accounts for various aggregated journals and social science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Questia *JSTOR: 100+ accounts for journal archives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:JSTOR

Accounts are available to ALL global editors with a 1 year old account and 1000 edits. Please notify your local community about the signups. Signups for now are mostly on English Wikipedia, UNLESS you have started a local Wikipedia Library branch like we've done on Arabic, Chinese, and German. To get started, please contact Ocaasi at [[m:User:Ocaasi (WMF)]] or ocaasi@wikimedia.org

Thanks!

The Wikipedia Library Team http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library

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