[Foundation-l] Access to academic journals (was Re: Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser)

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> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 14:46:00 -0500
> From: meta.sj en gmail.com
> To: foundation-l en lists.wikimedia.org
> CC: MHagemann en sorosny.org
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Access to academic journals (was Re: Remarks on Wikimedia's fundraiser)
> 
> Melissa -- absolutely! I don't know the real stats, but I think we
> cite OA jornals far more than any others in Wikipedia for this reason.
> 
> Approaching the problem from both sides seems useful, however,
> especially for historical reference works like Wikipedia and
> Wikibooks. We absolutely do want to include a balance of sources that
> are not OA, and finding better ways to search them and verify material
> in them is part of making that work with our current editorial model.
> 
> S
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Melissa Hagemann <MHagemann en sorosny.org> wrote:
> > --- On Tue, Mar 8, 2011, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466 en yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> --- On Tue, 8/3/11, Fred Bauder <fredbaud en fairpoint.net> wrote:
> >> > From: Fred Bauder <fredbaud en fairpoint.net>
> >> > Fred Bauder <fredbaud en fairpoint.net>
> >> > I guess I would like editors to have access to archives and
> >> > databases
> >> > such as those ProQuest sells. Not sure how that would fit
> >> > into our
> >> > budget.
> >>
> >> I would like to second that as well -- this is a very important way in
> >> which
> >> the Foundation could support high-volume content contributors, and
> > which
> >> would make a significant difference to article quality.
> >>
> >> This should be a part of university outreach as well. Many university
> >> students have log-in IDs enabling them to log into academic databases
> > from
> >> their homes. Please tell universities who would like to support
> > Wikipedia
> >> that this is a really important way in which they can support the
> > project,
> >> by allowing established content contributors access to these
> > databases.
> >
> >
> > In general, access to academic journals is extremely expensive and
> > usually only possible for those affiliated with universities.  However
> > there is an alternative.  There are now over 6,000 peer-reviewed open
> > access journals which are freely available online (www.doaj.org) and
> > over 1,800 academic repositories where authors deposit copies of their
> > research articles (www.opendoar.org).  This is the result of the open
> > access movement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access_(publishing)
> > which advocates for public access to publicly funded research.
> >
> > Hopefully the research which is being made available through open access
> > can help to support the work of the community.
> >
> > Melissa
> >
> >
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