[Wikimedia-l] Harvard urges Elsevier boycott

[Andrea Zanni]

I'm sorry, let me a pedant librarian:

* the topic of Access to research has been mainly referred to with the term
Open Access. You will find tons of material with that name.

* we have a Wikimedian in Residence for Open Access, Daniel Mietchen.

* *Open Access and the divide between “mainstream” and “peripheral” science* is
a great essay by Guédon (underlines some social drawbacks of the current
publishing system), one of the best I read. You can find it here:
http://eprints.rclis.org/12156

* *Reinventing discovery* is a great 2011 book from Michael Nielsen, it
speaks about Open Access and also crowdsourcing in escience. Very
interesting.

* the folks at archiveteam set up this: http://aaronsw.archiveteam.org/ It
is not properly legal, read it all.

* if you want to publish in/read a OA journal, find it here:
http://www.doaj.org

As for us, the Wikimedia movement, we can definetely do more. It is just a
matter of tactics, but we want this, so make it happen.

Aubrey



On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 2:09 AM, Etienne Beaule <betienne at bellaliant.net>wrote:

> There is also Access2Research <
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Access2Research > about free
> research
> articles in the Us.
>
>
> On 2013-01-14 21:06, "Everton Zanella Alvarenga" <
> ezalvarenga at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Don't worry, Richard, this news is now hot, but the situation din't
> > progress that much from what it could be.
> >
> > We have the Busapest Open Access Initiative since 2002
> > <http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/openaccess/read>. We can find
> > videos of professor Jean-Claude Guédon, one of the person who wrote
> > this initiative one decade ago, explaining in details the logics
> > behind all this.
> >
> > The publish (on closed journals) or perish still reigns in the
> > academia, so it is very important we explain the importance of
> > knowledge to be free for every single person we meet. Still a lot to
> > do.
> >
> > Tom
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:48 PM, Richard Symonds
> > <richard.symonds at wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
> >> Good lord, so it did. My apologies! It was making the rounds tonight
> and my
> >> excitement got the better of me.
> >>
> >> This is why I don't work in communications!
> >
>
>
>
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