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The Wikipedia Library at Wikimania in Mexico!
by Jake Orlowitz 14 Jul '15

14 Jul '15

We are excited to be at Wikimania and have the chance to interact with many of you in person. Here are several ways to reach us in Mexico... 1. Drop by the Community Engagement Table anytime to chat or pick up copies of our brochures 2. Attend Alex's Talk "Engaging Wikipedia's Natural Ally: How to unlock and amplify the access, knowledge, skills and resources of University and Research Libraries" at 11:30am on Friday in Don Alberto 3 3. Attend the Open Access Panel "Free as in Free: Strategies for Advancing Open Access on Wikipedia" at 3pm on Saturday in Don Alberto 4 4. Attend Jake's Talk: "Going Global: Building a Wikipedia Library Branch in Your Language" at 11:00am on Sunday in Don Alberto 2 5. Join the Wikipedia Library Meetup on Saturday from 10:30 - 11:30am. The location will be listed on the meetups page: https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetups 6. Schedule a 1-on-1 consultation with us. Just email wikipedialibrary(a)wikimedia.org and we'll find time and a space to meet We can't wait to see you and hear more about your experiences and plans for future Wikipedia Library growth and activities! Jake and The Wikipedia Library Team

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Research Coordinator query- Wikipedia Library email address error
by Paul S. Wilson 07 Jul '15

07 Jul '15

Hi, Interested in details of Research Coordinator job description and responsibilities. At https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library the email address: wikipedialibrary(a)wikimedia.org failed. Gmail reported: Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: wikipedialibrary(a)wikimedia.org Technical details of permanent failure: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the server for the recipient domain wikimedia.org by polonium.wikimedia.org. [2620:0:861:3:208:80:154:90]. The error that the other server returned was: 550 Address wikipedialibrary(a)wikimedia.org does not exist Thanks for all your efforts! Paulscrawl

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Wikipedia Library NEW free research accounts
by Jake Orlowitz 17 Jun '15

17 Jun '15

Hi! The Wikipedia Library has new, free research donations available to you... *Taylor & Francis* — major publisher of academic journals with 2 subject collections: Arts & Humanities and Biological, Environment & Earth Sciences (30 accounts) <http://enwp.org/WP:TANDF> *World Bank eLibrary* — digital platform containing all books, working papers, and journal articles published by the World Bank from the 1990s to the present (100 accounts) <http://enwp.org/WP:World Bank> *AAAS* — general science publisher, which publishes the leading journal *Science* among other sources (50 accounts) <http://enwp.org/WP:AAAS> New French-Language Branch donations! *Érudit *— French-Canadian scholarly database of humanities and social sciences, with sources in both English and French (50 accounts) <http://enwp.org/WP:Erudit> <http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:%C3%89rudit> *Cairn* — Cairn.info is a Switzerland based online portal of scholarly materials in the humanities and social sciences. Mostly French, but also some English (100 accounts) <http://enwp.org/WP:Cairn> <http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Cairn> *L'Harmattan* — French language publisher of non-fiction and fiction, with a strong selection of francophone African materials (1000 accounts) <http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:L'Harmattan> Many other partnerships are still available, including an expansion of Royal Society Journals: <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/Journals> If you have suggestions for journals or databases we should seek access to request it! <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/Journals/Request> We are looking for more help coordinating the Wikipedia Library's account distribution and global development! <http://meta.wikimedia.org/The_Wikipedia_Library/Coordinators/Signup> Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today! *The Wikipedia Library Team* <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library>

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Wikipedia Library NEW Free Research Accounts
by Jake Orlowitz 17 Jun '15

17 Jun '15

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Google Books
by Tim Davenport 19 May '15

19 May '15

Perhaps a more attainable goal would be for Wikipedians to gain access to books NOT UNDER COPYRIGHT that Google has scanned and restricted. Pretty much everything 1922 and earlier they have been good about making public (1908 and earlier for the UK) but there are a vast number of titles which are copyright clear for this reason or that for the 1923 to 1973 period that they have hidden behind "snippet view." There is absolutely no plausible copyright reason for them acting thus and that case might be made much more easily than a dubious appeal to release files of copyrighted materials because Wikipedians are on the side of the angels. Just a thought. Tim Davenport Corvallis, OR "Carrite" on WP

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Google Books
by Anders Feder 19 May '15

19 May '15

Hi, I have a little idea that could be really helpful for Wikipedians if it could be implemented. Google has scanned in a vast collection of books <http://www.google.com/googlebooks/library/>. Some of these scanned pages can be read online via Google Books, and serves an important resource for Wikipedians confirming the verifiability of text added to Wikipedia. However, many of the scanned pages can *not* be read: in some cases only an arbitrary selection of pages in a given book can be read, which may not be the ones need; in other cases, pages can not be read at all or they can only be searched in the severely limited "Snippet View". Now, there are good reasons why this is the case. The books copyrighted, and the rightsholders do not want to give their most important goods away for free to anyone on the internet. However, given Google's support for Wikipedia, and for the open dissemination of knowledge, could Wikipedia Library perhaps approach Google and request a much more limited arrangement, like the ones it has with various journals? Full access to all books in the Google Books Library Project would be utopic. But even a limited deal where a short range of pages can be requested for each book would be extremely helpful, because page numbers are specified countless references on Wikipedia via the {{cite book}} template - we just do not have a way to easily get those pages. Yet. Thank you, Anders Feder

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Private Placement
by Peter C 09 Feb '15

09 Feb '15

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Free Research Accounts via the Wikipedia Library (New in December)
by Jake Orlowitz 18 Dec '14

18 Dec '14

Hi! The Wikipedia Library has new, free research donations available this month: *Elsevier - science and medicine journals and books <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Elsevier_ScienceDirect> *Royal Society of Chemistry Gold Access - chemistry journals <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RSC_Gold> *Pelican Books - ebook monographs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pelican_Books> *Public Catalogue Foundation - art books <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_Catalogue_Foundation> Many other partnerships are still available too... <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/Journals> Please notify your local community about the signups. Accounts are open to ALL global editors with a 1 year old account and 1000 edits. Signups mostly happen on English Wikipedia, UNLESS a local Wikipedia Library branch has been started, like we've done on Arabic, Chinese, and German. To get started, please contact Ocaasi at [[m:User:Ocaasi (WMF)]] or ocaasi(a)wikimedia.org Thanks! The Wikipedia Library Team <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library>

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Re: [Wikipedia Library] New Wikipedia Library Signups: Free Research Accounts!
by Jake Orlowitz 06 Nov '14

06 Nov '14

(sorry this conversation is happening across multiple lists, I should have used cc for the emails... ) Responding to Mitar on open access: You know I think it's sad too that we have to go around asking for donations and selling Wikipedia's value as a portal to publishers. On the other hand, we have 500 million monthly readers and when they come to Wikipedia they will see the content we have summarized from sources. The only question is whether that content is from full-text-available-online sources *only*, or from all of the best sources regardless of their access status. At the end of my day, I have to serve our editors and readers as best I can and that means giving them as much access to the best research as possible today. You may think this is a devil's bargain, but I have to admit that I'm a pragmatist and I'd rather have our editors summarize paywalled content for our readers than for that content to not be represented on Wikipedia at all, even if readers may hit a paywall when they click-through. It's long been Wikipedia's policy (at least English Wikipedia) that accessibility is not a deciding factor when it comes to what is a reliable source. That applies to out of print manuscripts as well as to embargoed journals--we use the best sources now because we have an encyclopedia to write. If we aim to change that, it requires a very deep discussion about how we prioritize and strategize our mission. I do whatever I can to support OA, to tweet about open access button efforts, to promote WikiProject Resource Exchange, to support the OA signalling project, to engage with initiatives like the Open Access reader, and to discuss the broader mission of sharing knowledge with reference experts and journals. The tides are changing and I see it daily as I speak with librarians and journal publishers. In other words, the efforts of The Wikipedia Library advance our mission and are indeed *complementary* to the radical vision of open access that I wholeheartedly support. So, I hope you take this as my saying, "I agree completely" and also "So what, we have an encyclopedia to write!" Happy to continue discussing this. Best, Jake (Ocaasi) On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Mitar <mmitar(a)gmail.com> wrote: > 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.) > > > Mitar > > On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Jake Orlowitz <jorlowitz(a)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(a)wikimedia.org > > > > Thanks! > > > > The Wikipedia Library Team > > <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > OpenAccess mailing list > > OpenAccess(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/openaccess > > > > -- > http://mitar.tnode.com/ > https://twitter.com/mitar_m > > _______________________________________________ > OpenAccess mailing list > OpenAccess(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/openaccess >

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New Wikipedia Library Signups: Free Research Accounts!
by Jake Orlowitz 06 Nov '14

06 Nov '14

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(a)wikimedia.org Thanks! The Wikipedia Library Team <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library>

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