[Foundation-l] Journal Boycott

[John Vandenberg]

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2 February 2012 00:31, Daniel Mietchen <daniel.mietchen at googlemail.com>wrote:
>
>> I think that skipping non-OA sources is not a valid option, though
>> encouragement of the use of relevant OA sources is.
>>
>> One way to achieve that could be by highlighting the "OA-ness" of
>> cited references, as is now common practice in the Research section of
>> the Signpost (most recent example:
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-01-30/Recent_research#References
>> ).
>>
>> So far, this flagging is done manually, but at least for publishers
>> that use the same Creative Commons license for all the articles they
>> publish, it would be easy to modify citation templates like
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_journal to include the OA
>> icon for all DOIs belonging to the prefixes listed at
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/Open_Knowledge_Foundation_Germany/Open_Access_Catalogue/OA_publishers/DOI_prefixes_entirely_OA
>> . Things get a bit more complicated on the journal level, especially
>> in the case of hybrid OA journals, in which some articles are OA,
>> others not, and even the OA ones may be under different licenses.
>>
>> <snip>
>
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>
> THIS!
>
> I agree with what was said before that it would be technically (and
> intellectually) difficulty to boycott links to particular sources from
> Wikipedias. I think it would be fantastic if we could *promote* Open Access
> sources in our references - see Daniel's link to the Signpost (above) for a
> good example. If we could overcome some technical difficulties (Daniel
> describes some above). This would be a positive action to support OA rather
> than a punitive action against other less open (but still legal) publishers
> of Reliable Sources. It would also help promote the idea of OA sources in
> the general public.
> Ideally this could be done automatically by compiling a list of "OA
> compliant" sources and automatically adding in the OA icon to a footnote
> whenever the relevant citation code is called.

We have lists of journal usage,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Academic_Journals/Journals_cited_by_Wikipedia/Popular1

and Wikipedia articles about journals often have OA information in the infobox.

e.g. our most cited journal, J. Biol. Chem., is 12 month delay OA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Biological_Chemistry

-- 
John Vandenberg