John G. Dove, 28/08/2017 19:14:
This is great news! You are showing the way. I look forward to manymore 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).
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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.