John G. Dove, 28/08/2017 19:14:
This is great news! You are showing the way. I
look forward to many
more such initiatives, not just in Wikipedia, but anywhere people look
for access to knowledge.
Thank you for your kind words. It's nice to see the authors'
enthusiastic response, but the warmth from OA friends including
https://twitter.com/petersuber/status/898941119924502528 has given me
more energy to continue.
Jake, the text is no secret. Originally I intended to draft it together
with everyone else here on Meta, but then only WMIT/AISA OA people
offered to help so we're coordinating things on the WMIT wiki. If
somebody wants to help more (e.g. by providing at least 10 hours of work
in our "help desk" for authors), I can get them added to the wiki and/or
OTRS. By the end of September I plan to publish some ideas on how to
proceed in a more coordinated fashion.
Mind you, I contact only people whose work is depositable according to
SHERPA/RoMEO per Dissemin. Hundreds of authors have replied and I've
told many to contact their journal or publisher if they're still unsure.
I hope they get useful replies!
So, below you find one version of the text (I should really cut it a bit).
Nemo
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From: Wikimedia Italia Open Access group
Subject: Thanks for your research, from Wikipedia articles
Body:
Dear Pinco Pallo,
thank you for your research and for advancing public knowledge about
your field! We think you'll be interested in knowing that the English
Wikipedia references your work
<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=all&search=insource:[DOI]>
(doi:[DOI]).
As you know, Wikipedia strives for neutrality and verifiability: all are
free to edit, insofar they summarise suitable published information and
points of view, so that every reader can study the topic further and
revise or expand the articles as needed. If we want the public to
exercise critical thinking and grow knowledge, we need such scientific
literature to be freely available, in Open Access. It's already possible
to make all the scientific literature just one click away for everybody
from Wikipedia articles, but we need the authors' help.
In fact, your publications could be archived in an open repository
according to their journal's policies, but they were not yet (according
to SHERPA/RoMEO and available metadata). The good news is that you can
now make all your works freely available for everybody with few clicks,
thanks to Zenodo (hosted by CERN): you only have to search Dissemin
<https://dissem.in/search/?status=couldbe&authors=Pinco+Pallo> for your
name and upload the PDF files for all the publications which can be
archived, while the system takes care of filling the metadata.
The Dissemin page about each work contains more information and links on
the policies which allow you to upload a copy. Usually you can share
without restrictions at least the pre-print, that is the file as you
submitted it for peer review; in most cases you can also share the
post-print, that is the final file you submitted after peer review
(before any editing by the publisher). Dissemin will ask you to login
via ORCID: you may already have an ORCID account from your institution,
but if not you can easily signup and create your unique author identity.
To integrate with free knowledge resources, "libre" Open Access helps:
at Wikimedia we prefer the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike (CC
BY-SA) license, or the CC BY. For more information, we recommend the
SPARC Open Access website and Peter Suber's how-to
<https://cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/How_to_make_your_own_work_open_access> .
We hope you will use Dissemin <https://dissem.in> today to reach a wider
audience.
Kind regards,
Federico Leva for Wikimedia Italia
P.s.: If you reply with comments or questions, we'll forward to a group
of field experts who will help. This message is sent to your address as
relevant feedback about the publication which provided it. Dissemin is
run by the independent CAPSH association.