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

[Andrea Zanni]

>
> We certainly have many individual contacts with the OA community,
> including Melissa Hagemann, who is on our advisory board :)  This is
> also an area of professional work for me. What kinds of lobbying did
> you have in mind?
>
> I was just waiting the librarians to weigh in :-)
I'm really not sure of what we can do together, but I certainly was
astonished when few years ago I learned about open access. We have many
things in common, and in a certain sense we are more closer to the OA
movement than the free software one.
Nonetheless, the OA is mainly known by librarians, and (at least in Italy)
few scholars and researchers.
I think the Wikimedia could do his part to promote OA, and discuss with
members of OA to build common strategies. Or at least get to know each
other, there are plenty of things we can learn from one another.

Furthermore, another direction could be discuss about licensing: OA has a
"weird" form of licensing scholarship, and a way to make the main OA
licenses (e.g Bethesda) compatible with CC-BY or CC-BY-SA could be an huge
step forward.

Obviously, my 2 cents.

Aubrey