Federico, et. al.,
I'm am 'over the moon' getting this e-mail from my brother today. I've
used my brother as an example of a scholar who has always done science as a
contribution to society and would want to share his works if he knew that
he needed to and knew how. He serves on the National Academy of Sciences as
well as the Royal Academy of Sciences in Belgium. He's been publishing in
scholarly journals since the early 60s and he's still an active researcher
at 80 years old.
I've envisioned his getting an e-mail like this ever since waking up
from a dream on 24 May, 2015 after having read Peter Suber's book on Open
Access. In the dream it struck me that there's a point in time when a
publisher (in this case Wikipedia) has an interest for their readers to
have an excellent reading experience (and isn't this the mission of any
publisher???) and an interest in reaching authors who are experts in the
fields in which they publish. And that authors of have an interest in
having an impact on the audiences that the publisher is reaching.
Peter, do you remember when I told you about some of my brother's paper
still being cited that were published before the NIH mandates were in
place? I told you that he considers them to be shared because they all
are on his department's website. You told me that I should tell my brother
to submit them to the UWisconsin I.R. And I said, "I'm not interested in
solving my brother's specific open access problem. I want to see a
systematic way of reaching my brother and all the other scholars so that
they are motivated to do share appropriately."
My brother is currently having to type with one hand and write with
his previously non-dominant hand. But you notice in his message to me that
he's truly motivated to now put all of this papers under a creative commons
license.
I think I'll only suggest that he click on the dissem.in link.
Someone like him should be able to take that path and be successful.
I'll watch and report back.
-John Dove
PS: I'm at the Conference of Open Access Scholarly Publishers meeting
starting tomorrow. You all have given me a wonderful boost. I'm going to
be socializing the idea that other publishers could follow Wikipedia's lead
on this. I've come prepared with reference lists from several gold open
access publishers including PLoS, MDPI, and Hindawi.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: William Dove <dove(a)oncology.wisc.edu>
Date: Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 2:31 PM
Subject: Fw: Open Access via Wikipedia
To: John Dove <johngdove(a)gmail.com>,
Cc: William Dove <dove(a)oncology.wisc.edu>
hi john,
i am "babe in the woods" on this. please advise what is best for me to
do to make each of my publications (*) available under Creative Commons.
onward,
bill (dove)
------------------------------
*From:* Federico Leva - WMI <info(a)wikimedia.it>
*Sent:* Monday, September 18, 2017 1:08 PM
*To:* William Dove
*Subject:* I found your work on Wikipedia but it could be more accessible
Dear William Dove,
as a volunteer Wikipedia editor, I found your *RETROSPECTIVE James F. Crow
(1916-2012)*
<http://phplist.wikimedia.it/lists/lt.php?tid=LB8FVAEAVlRWUxkCVFUAHgVaAwAZBQ…>
(doi:10.1126/science.1219557)
cited in an English Wikipedia article
<http://phplist.wikimedia.it/lists/lt.php?tid=LB9SUFdfAgIEVhkCC1QDHgVWAAwZXV…>
.
However, I did not easily find a copy that I could access and share.
On the Dissemin page about your work
<http://phplist.wikimedia.it/lists/lt.php?tid=LB8FVAEAVlRWUxkCVFUAHgVaAwAZBQ…>
I found that your publisher's policies allow you to make it available for
everyone now (green open access).
With a couple clicks on Dissemin you can now deposit your manuscript in
Zenodo (hosted by CERN): as an author, you just have to click the upload
button and select the relevant PDF from your disk. Dissemin takes care of
all the metadata for you.
I need an open access copy to be able to discuss it with fellow editors and
make sure the Wikipedia article provides an accurate and neutral overview
under a free license for everybody to use. We also want every user who
reads Wikipedia to be able to verify its content by consulting its primary
sources. (See the Wikipedia pillars
<http://phplist.wikimedia.it/lists/lt.php?tid=LB8MVwYHCgNXUhkFU1VQHgVbBw4ZBg…>
.)
On Dissemin you can also click your name from the work's page or search
your name
<http://phplist.wikimedia.it/lists/lt.php?tid=LB8AAgQCA1IFBxlRVwYGHgVSA1oZBg…>
to find all your known works which are already available or could be made
available. 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.
When asked to choose a copyright license for your work, please consider
that "libre" Open Access is especially helpful to grow free knowledge
resources like Wikipedia: at Wikimedia we prefer the Creative Commons
Attribution Share-Alike (CC BY-SA) license, or the CC BY.
If you have already deposited your works elsewhere, please contact your
librarians or the administrators of your repository so that they can
investigate why BASE/oaDOI fail to direct users to your archived version.
They may also be able to help you archive your works if you are not able to
do it yourself.
Finally, for more information on Open Access, we recommend the SPARC Open
Access website and Peter Suber's how-to at Harvard
<http://phplist.wikimedia.it/lists/lt.php?tid=LB8HB1RUBVQGVRkAAAECHgUHWloZBQ…>
.
If you found Dissem.in
<http://phplist.wikimedia.it/lists/lt.php?tid=LB8MWlZfUlIDUhkKBA5THgVaWwAZXF…>
useful, please forward to all your co-authors and colleagues.
Kind regards,
Federico Leva
(Wikimedia Italia association member)
P.s.: This message is sent to your address as relevant feedback about the
publication which provided it. Dissemin is run by the independent CAPSH
association in France.
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As discussed in previous post
BR
Rudy
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Rudy Patard <rudy.patard(a)gmail.com>
Date: 12 November 2016 at 23:59
Subject: Re: An initiative to change the publication paradigm
To: Tyler Neylon <tylerneylon(a)gmail.com>
Hi,
OK. Thanks. I'll use the names to build a contacts list.
If you know of groups of more radical people willing to target what is
crippling the universities, and more generally the free dissemination of
knowledge, do not hesitate to send me contacts.
I just left my phd supervision (thesis director and supervisors) cause they
where strongly opposed to the content of my thesis and more particularly
this 'Journal Scientifique Libre' part... Now they are requiring me to
suppress the logos of the laboratory (and affiliations) I was in while
working on this. So I guess through their reaction that the proposal is
significant enough. ;-)
I haven't created the english wikiversity sister pages yet, but I will
soon. The english initial proposal was (is) on ENIPEDIA (
http://enipedia.tudelft.nl/wiki/Portal:wiki-based_free_open_journals).
PS : I've no trouble with reading english, but thanks for the kindness in
translating. I may be writing poorly however. But I guess it will be enough
to be understood.
Best Regards
Rudy
*CordialementRudy Patard*
*Lille*
*Doctorant en recherche d'une nouvelle direction de thèse.*
*Évaluation de la soutenabilité. (cf HAL
<https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/search/index/q/Rudy+Patard/rows/30/>)*
*06 38 02 53 12 <06%2038%2002%2053%2012>*
*Solenopsis invicta, qui ne voudrait pas être** Paraponera. Les
entomologistes apprécieront.*
On 12 November 2016 at 00:13, Tyler Neylon <tylerneylon(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Salut Rudy,
>
> (Traduit de l'anglais par Google translate.)
>
> C'est ok avec moi si vous voulez rayer les noms du site. Je considère que
> toutes les informations là-bas sont publiques.
>
> J'espère que votre initiative va bien! Faites-moi savoir si je peux faire
> autre chose pour aider.
>
> Merci,
> - Tyler
>
> Hi Rudy,
>
> It's ok with me if you'd like to scrape names from the site. I consider
> all the information there to be public.
>
> I hope your initiative goes well! Let me know if I can do anything else to
> help.
>
> thanks,
> - Tyler
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 1:58 PM Rudy Patard <rudy.patard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm a little frenchy with an idea about scientific journals.
>> (project on the french wikiversity
>> <https://fr.wikiversity.org/wiki/Projet:Journal_scientifique_libre>,
>> discussed in English on meta
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Forum&oldid=15283709…>
>> ).
>>
>> I try to build a community of persons from higher education and research
>> (HER) wanting to change their model of publication.
>> I though of using the boycotter's list. Your site however do not indicate
>> how its content can be used.
>> Could you please confirm that we could build a contacts list by
>> extracting the names of the list.
>> (I expect we'll be filling contact informations with corresponding
>> authors e-mails and laboratories / universities websites respective pages).
>>
>> We try to get big enough to get a sufficiently significant productive
>> community that research institution (CNRS, NRC (ca), FNRS (be) ...) and
>> assessment organs (such as http://www.hceres.fr/ for France) won't be
>> able do deny.
>>
>> I want to build and show an alternative dissemination way that can get
>> somebody a position, a tenure, research grants ... in short, make an
>> open-collaborative way that count is attractive and cannot be denied by
>> academia.
>> I also want civil society to get to be associated with this process. This
>> is also one reason to chose wikimedian sites 'wikiversities'.
>>
>> Any tips are welcome of course.
>>
>> Best Regards
>> Rudy
>>
>>
>>
>> *CordialementRudy Patard*
>>
>> *Lille*
>> *06 38 02 53 12 <06%2038%2002%2053%2012>*
>> *Solenopsis invicta, qui ne voudrait pas être** Paraponera. Les
>> entomologistes apprécieront.*
>>
>
Ho creato http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Associazione:Open_access#2017
per cominciare a metterci alcuni appunti sulla mia campagna di
comunicazione ai ricercatori (scrivere agli autori di 40k articoli usati
in Wikipedia perché li archivino in accesso aperto), altrimenti restano
solo nella mia memoria e in qualche messaggio privato.
Se vi ricordate qualche altra pagina rilevante e avete un minuto,
aggiungetela alla categoria:
http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Categoria:Open_access
Nemo