Dear WPL colleagues,
Thank you for responding to my query about making approaches to Academia.edu. I really appreciate having sensible advice. Your feedback indicates caution, and raises the possibility that there may be little to be gained from an arrangement with them; I will go ahead and make queries, especially about the legal side and the user agreement as would relate to WPL access, but shall make no commitments. I'll bring their response back to the list for consideration.Regards,James
James McArdleUser:Jamesmcardle
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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 11:48:41 -0700
From: ahmed yousif <ashashyou@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: [Wikipedia Library] Wikipedia-Library Digest, Vol 10,
Issue 5
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Just a hint.
Being a payable article does not mean that it is not open access.
My own experience is that some journals when submitting your article will put a"time frame" for the article. For example 6 years, after that the author can share the article unrestricted. So some authors upload thier articles to academia.edu.
Also there is now awealth of open access journals and of open access articles in non-open access journals.
Regards,
Ahmed Shawky Mohammedin
User:ashashyou
------------------------------On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 3:04 PM EEST wikipedia-library-request@lists.wikimedia.orgwrote:Send Wikipedia-Library mailing list submissions towikipedia-library@lists.wikimedia.orgTo subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visithttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-libraryor, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' towikipedia-library-request@lists.wikimedia.orgYou can reach the person managing the list atwikipedia-library-owner@lists.wikimedia.orgWhen replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specificthan "Re: Contents of Wikipedia-Library digest..."Today's Topics:1. OA (James McArdle)2. Re: OA (Paul S. Wilson)3. Re: OA (Paul S. Wilson)----------------------------------------------------------------------Message: 1Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 23:24:29 +1000From: James McArdle <jmcardle@vic.chariot.net.au>To: "wikipedia-library@lists.wikimedia.org"<wikipedia-library@lists.wikimedia.org>Subject: [Wikipedia Library] OAMessage-ID: <639DC974-9E45-4F40-AFA5-38997664A455@vic.chariot.net.au>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-asciiHi,In relation to Open Access papers, I'm wondering if WPL has had dealings with Academia.edu? (I'm new to WPL). Their website makes available papers across all disciplines by current academics who are subscribed.Outsiders can see a few recommended articles, but there is a wealth of material hidden from them. I have contacts there as I am one of their recommending editors.Can you tell me from your experience, is it worthwhile exploring whether of access can be provided to,or via, WPL for our users?Regards,JamesJames McArdle------------------------------Message: 2Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 11:27:41 -0500From: "Paul S. Wilson" <paulscrawl@gmail.com>To: Mailing list for the Wikipedia Library project<wikipedia-library@lists.wikimedia.org>Subject: Re: [Wikipedia Library] OAMessage-ID:<CAOVDCgMKw7VfrHrOmqimO97B+8fSXm40pfG8fc3LKX5GyPmtVA@mail.gmail.com>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"Interesting question, James.Academia.edu serves millions as a personal repository for their academicpreprints (usually legal) and published versions (often not so) - thequestion is, do we dare risk such when institutional depositories withvetting of allowable content are readily available?As an experiment, [[Academia.edu]] article has a cited reference topaywalled content (footnote #11 as of today) to which I've appended a linkto the preprint version of the article on academia.edu, noting "/*Reception */ + "Academia.edu preprint" (with differing pagination fromcanonical published version; other editorial changes likely) of Thelwall &Kousha (2012)".Per Academia.edu's voluminous [https://www.academia.edu/terms terms ofuse], such "Member Content" is severely restricted.Would be interested in gaining access to site content, if TWL can negotiate- or learn to live with - latter.Paul S. WilsonResearch CoordinatorThe Wikipedia Library
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