Tools like the Open Access button (openaccessbutton.org) can be used to search for OA versions of articles - we link to this from the TWL navbox on English, and I believe on a couple of other languages. Updating the link would likely require the use of a bot, and I'm not sure how easy that would be to do automatically.
Cheers,
Nikki
> From: smachefert@gmail.com
> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 16:18:54 +0100
> To: wikipedia-library@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Wikipedia Library] Finding links to OA versions of articles ?
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> Hi all,
> There has been quite discussion on a French list I am subscribing to regarding the latest partnership with elsevier (and I suspect we can expect a lot of attraction with this new partnership ...)
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> One of the interesting question raised was: is there any plan to try to automatically find, when. There is a pay walled article referenced somewhere, if an OA version exists, and if yes update the link.
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> I think it should be covered by TWL, if it doesn't exist yet. Do you know anything about any initiative of that kind ?
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> Thanks,
> Sylvain
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