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Dom Mitchell from DOAJ sent this mail for recruiting volunteers for the
project.
Please share.
Aubrey
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DOAJ wants to recruit unpaid volunteers, with language skills, that can
help us
maintain our levels of quality for the journals that we accept into the
Directory, as well as reviewing those already in the Directory. We're
especially
interested in those of you who have an interest or experience in scholarly
publishing, journals and, of course, open access.
More info can be found here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1Fw8p9XB3C6d3d2cUhvZXA3OUk/edit?usp=shari…
Please don't hesitate to share this with your colleagues or get in touch if
you
have questions.
Dom Mitchell
Community Manager
Dear all,
the current issue of the Signpost (just published) contains a piece in
which I am introducing the Signalling OA-ness project:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2014-01-15/Op-ed .
Comments, sharing and other forms of feedback most appreciated.
Thanks and cheers,
Daniel
Dear all,
Peter suggested that I might email you all about an encyclopedia entry on
Open content we are trying to pull together. This is for the "International
Encyclopedia of Digital Communication and Society" published by
Wiley-Blackwell in collaboration with the International Communication
Association.
The article will be freely available and also openly licensed after an embargo
period - that's the best agreement I was able to negotiate, and it's an
interesting story in itself. It also means we can't re-use Wikipedia (under
CC-By-SA), which is a real shame, although we are drawing on some CC-By
materials.
Unfortunately there is not a lot of time, and we're in a real rush now. So
it's turning into an experiment in "speed crowd sourcing". I had originally
hoped that the entry would be written in a highly collaborative way, with
lots of diverse contributions and discussion, and I do hope this will still
be possible to a small extent.
Your contributions, thoughts and ideas will be very welcome, and of course
we'll acknowledge anybody contributing. The entry itself is here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O-PjUfUIGGuEo5MQpAHxVoXFnBnnqhfHUx47aqn…
The permissions are such that anybody can view and comment, so please
do have a look. It's at an early stage at the moment, but we are
working on it this week and weekend, aiming to get it finished (in final
form) by the end of the month. You can also have a look at
http://bjohas.de/OCEE for further information.
If you want to contribute, please email me as soon as possible to let
me know (bjohas(at)gmail.com), and request access to the Google document.
Many thanks and all the best wishes,
Bjoern
Faculty of Education
University of Cambridge, UK
http://www.bjohas.de
Dear all,
the NISO Working group on OA signalling has put out its draft
recommendations yesterday (see below).
I have put a summary on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Access/Signalling_…
.
Cheers,
d.
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From: Cameron Neylon <cn(a)cameronneylon.net>
Date: Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:29 AM
Subject: [Open-access] NISO Recommendations on Open Access Metadata
To: open-access(a)lists.okfn.org
Dear All
I've been involved in a NISO working group looking at standards for
expressing licensing and readership rights in published literature. We
have generated a set of recommendations for metadata to be transmitted
with articles and/or made available in appropriate repositories. The
recommendations are now available for a comment:
OAMI public workroom page (http://www.niso.org/workrooms/oami/)
Public landing page for the draft and online comments form -
http://www.niso.org/apps/group_public/document.php?document_id=12047
The recommendations are actually very minimal in form but they
represent an agreed view from a very wide range of stakeholders which
is valuable. Their adoption could significantly reduce the confusion
around re-use rights and reading rights. You will notice that there is
a complete avoidance of the term "open access" in the metadata
elements. This is quite deliberate as a means of avoiding
disagreements over what "counts" as open access while focussing on
making information that is hopefully reasonably objective available.
There are also things we decided not to tackle, including the actual
location of copies (this is covered by existing Crossref elements and
may in fact be undefined if the metadata is being transmitted with a
copy) and visual identifiers. The fact that we didn't include that in
this doesn't of course mean that others couldn't expand this set of
elements by local agreement for their own purposes.
Cheers
Cameron
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Submissions are now open for Wikimania 2014. One of the
themes<https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Themes>of the
conference is Open
Scholarship<https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Themes/Open_Scholarship>,
which includes open access and open research. There are also themes on Open
Data <https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Themes/Open_Data> and the Future
of Education<https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Themes/Future_of_Education>,
which includes open educational resources.
Thanks,
Stuart Lawson
User:Lawsonstu
Open Access Community Liaison, Wikimania 2014
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From: James Forrester <jdforrester(a)gmail.com>
Date: 2 January 2014 12:24
Subject: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2014 – Call for Submissions
To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" <
wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Everyone,
I would like to invite submissions[0] proposing presentations, panels,
tutorials and workshops for Wikimania 2014 in London this coming August.
Note that the deadline is the end of March; we hope to have final decisions
about the programme by the end of April.
Additionally, I would be delighted to have any additional volunteers for
the programme committee[1], which will be finalised shortly.
[0] – https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions
[1] – https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programme_Committee
Yours,
--
James D. Forrester
Chair, Programme Committee
Wikimania 2014
jdforrester(a)gmail.com
[[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal
capacity)
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