You've might already noticed.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.full
Interesting article from Science about the new boom of low-level journals,
most of which are OA. Despite the clear disclaimer at the end ("everyone
agrees that open-access is a good thing"), the article's mood is quite
skeptical about OA, although the conclusions could maybe have been drawn
also for non-OA low-level journals (but the author didn't test them).
Giacomo
Hello,
Sorry for the late notice. It seems that I never cross-posted this.
On Thursday 3 October - tomorrow - there will be a meeting of Wikipedians
who support "openness". This is organized by some people at the Communicate
OER WikiProject (for open educational resources) and I will be there as a
member of WikiProject Open Access.
*Thursday 3 October 2013*
*15:00 UTC, for one hour* (some sample local times below, or see
here<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20131003T1500>
)
- 8:00am Los Angeles
- 11:00am New York
- 16:00 London
- 17:00 Cape Town
- 22:00 Jakarta/Indochina Time
- 01:00 *FRIDAY* Brisbane/Sydney/Melbourne
Format: Blackboard Collaborate (Java-based webinar software):
j.mp/wikiSOOconf<https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/meeting.jnlp?sid=2008170&pa…>
Optional 2-hour parallel work session to build out the project pages,
immediately following the call: we will continue to use Blackboard
Collaborate, and/or tools like IRC.
The topic of discussion is deciding scope for the two major established
efforts to promote "open" on Wikipedia, WikiProject Open Access and
Communicate OER.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Access>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Communicate_OER>
When I set up WikiProject Open Access, I took the task of tagging various
Wikipedia article as being within the scope of interest of that
WikiProject. This means that if someone comes to the WikiProject and wants
to see its covered articles, they can get a list and enjoy the articles or
hopefully contribute to them. I was thinking of open access as a concept
which could be tied to all other kinds of openness, so I tagged every kind
of "open" article - open science, open educational resources, open data,
open source - with the "WikiProject Open Access" tag. This means that the
precedent on Wikipedia is to associate anything "open" with open access.
This is a bit of a problem now because this open educational resources
community is not so interested in open access - it consists of teachers,
librarians, and educators who want classroom materials, and the concept of
"open access" is a bit removed from their immediate thoughts. I would like
to connect this community into the infrastructure which already exists at
WikiProject Open Access, and I would like to draw together all supporters
of "open" movements, so in this upcoming meeting and future talks some of
us will be discussing how to do this.
There are two proposals on the table now. One is that separate WikiProjects
- like Open Educational Resources and Open Access - each have their own
main pages and send their communities to those main pages. This is how
things work now. An alternative is to have one landing page - "WikiProject
Open" - then to present any active communities as flagship projects of
WikiProject Open.
My proposal -
- One project called "WikiProject Open" acts as the hub of all open
efforts
- WikiProject Open Access and Communicate OER are flagship-sub projects;
other subprojects welcome
- Project tagging on all pages changes from "WikiProject Open Access" to
"WikiProject Open"
- This mailing list, the "openaccess" mailing list, because the mailing
list for all notices about anything related to "open" on Wikimedia
projects, and not just "open access"
- One forum becomes the talk space for all "open" projects - communities
combine there
My rationale for wanting to combine communities is that many people outside
of academia are fans of "open" but the concept of open access is a bit
inaccessible. I think that the open access community would do well to
recognize non-academic outreach efforts to other "open" activism as being a
reasonable way to quickly grow non-academic support for the concept of open
access, and that the concept of open access adds a lot of respectability to
other demands for openness.
I also like the idea that anyone who ever did anything "open" would see and
be guided to use and understand the concept of "open access", even if it
seems not directly related to the "open" project they are doing.
Thoughts? This will be a continuing discussion. I am not sure what is right
and do not feel comfortable with my proposal but it is a starting point. I
do not want to dilute promotion of open access but I do want to do
something to increase active participation on Wikipedia.
yours,
--
Lane Rasberry
user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia
206.801.0814
lane(a)bluerasberry.com
This mail from Amanda Rust is probably worth forwarding here too :-)
Aubrey
Hello, all--
I'm helping put together a series of Edit-a-thons at MA libraries,
archives, and museums for Open Access/Wikipedia Loves Libraries Week, and
would love your help! Together with my co-organizer Amanda Strauss
(Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe), we are encouraging MA GLAMs to join
forces for Open Access to Mass History:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Loves_Libraries/Open_Acces…
We are generally enthusiastic, but inexperienced. This is our first year
in trying to organize a series like this, and we would love to have at
least one knowledgeable Wikipedia editor at each site. (As we contacted
potential hosts, each and every one first asked about how to connect with a
Wikipedia editor, so we think there are a lot of people eager to learn the
ropes.) So if there are any folks on this list that would like to volunteer
to be the local Wikipedia expert/tutorial giver, please let me know.
We have our list of confirmed sites up on the page above, and already
have a few more in the works, so hopefully there is a time and date that
works for everyone interested.
Also, please feel free to share this widely, and let me know if you have
any suggestions on where else to publicize. And feel free to let us know if
we are doing anything wrong!
Thanks,
Amanda (R.)
____________________________________
Amanda Rust
Asst. Dept. Head, Arts & Humanities
Northeastern University Libraries
360 Huntington Avenue, Boston MA 02116
a.rust(a)neu.edu | 617-373-8548
____________________________________
____________________________________
Amanda E. Strauss
Research Librarian
Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
amanda_strauss(a)radcliffe.harvard.edu | 617-384-9329
____________________________________
_______________________________________________
Libraries mailing list
Libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries
Hello,
There is a team of people who are organizing a sprint to develop the
Wikipedia article on "open science" this Friday, 19 September, at the Open
Knowledge Foundation's OKCon in Geneva. Anyone can contribute to this
effort online.
<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Workshop/Open_Science_Workshop_%28G…
>
*HELP!* To improve the article on open science we need published sources of
information to cite! Who knows any fundamental text, commentary, history,
article, or review of open science as a concept, movement, or practice? We
need help identifying the available sources from which we should draw our
content to summarize on Wikipedia.
If anyone has a source, please go to this Wikipedia article and add it to
the list. Click "edit" at the top of the page to do so. If you cannot
manage Wikipedia, then please just reply with your source to this list.
If anyone has more than a source and can contribute content, then please do
so at
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science>
This is a great opportunity for anyone to make a real difference in
improving access to the information online explaining the concept of open
science. By the way - our late collaborator Aaron Swartz started this
article in English in 2006. He made huge sacrifices which benefited all of
us because he wanted to promote this concept and he was the target of a lot
of discrimination in the recent past because he did restricted things that
even now are becoming standard practices and that we are starting to take
for granted as our rights. The concept of open science was important to him
and is to all of us so if you have time to at least share a source of
information then participate in your community and think of adding content
to the movement.
yours,
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Lane Rasberry <lane(a)bluerasberry.com>wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> This email talks about an upcoming effort to develop the Wikipedia article
> on "open science" at the the Open Knowledge Foundation conference 16-18
> September in Geneva and online. The request is that anyone who is able
> should consider submitting something to that Wikipedia article - or to this
> list for those unfamiliar with Wikipedia - so that people can learn more
> about open science. The rest of this email talks about that - there is no
> need to read further if you are not interested in participating.
>
> *Why this matters*
> One way to describe open science is to say that it is the idea that all
> science intended to be made available should be made available. Right now
> there are barriers to collaboration in science, including inability of
> researchers to read papers (lack of open access) and inability of
> researchers to share data (lack of open data).
>
> Since the Wikipedia article on "open science" is the first returned result
> for a search engine query on the topic, securing the usefulness of this
> Wikipedia article is probably a prerequisite to anticipating that mass
> media will ever talk about open science and thus encourage a social
> movement.
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science>
>
> *How anyone can help*
> The easiest way that anyone can develop any Wikipedia article is to make
> sure that all major sources describing a topic are at least cited and
> mentioned in the references section of that Wikipedia article. If sources
> are not identified, then no one can develop the article. Please look at the
> sources already cited and if anyone knows a fundamental source of "open
> science" not mentioned in this article then please post it on Wikipedia or
> if that is not possible, mention it in this mailing list.
>
> Otherwise, anyone can edit Wikipedia at any time. Feel free to jump in by
> going to any Wikipedia article and clicking "edit" at the top of the page.
> If you do something wrong then I assure you that your contribution will be
> salvaged and integrated by others.
>
> Although the conference and drive to improve this article is 16-18
> September, actually you can feel free to contribute to Wikipedia at any
> time.
>
> *Who can do this*
> Stakeholders in the public perception of the concept of "open science"
> should consider that at least this project will influence them, just
> because this article will be for the foreseeable future the central source
> of information on this topic. Anyone who likes can give input.
>
> This effort is being organized by Ceyla of HackYourPhD.org. She just went
> on an international open science tour and documented an oral history of
> open science. She will be at OKCon in Geneva and can assist people at that
> conference. I [[user:bluerasberry]] on Wikipedia or lane(a)bluerasberry.comcan assist people on Wikipedia or otherwise online.
> <http://hackyourphd.org/en/> Ceyla - at the conference
> *<https://etherpad.mozilla.org/OKCon-OpenScienceHackDay> <------- Most
> details planned here *
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bluerasberry> Lane - online only
>
> The P2P Foundation is an organizational overseer in this effort.
> <http://p2pfoundation.net/>
>
> I would also like to advertise that there is a mailing list for the
> Wikipedia community about internal policy on open access - open access
> advocates may want to subscribe to this here.
> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/openaccess>
>
> Also I would like to advertise that I recognize the Open Knowledge
> Foundation as a major international player in promoting community
> discussion about open science and related topics.
>
> Finally I would like to point to Gabriel Thullen and Brian as active
> Wikipedians who live in Geneva. I have no idea whether they might be able
> to say hello to any open science fans attending this conference but they do
> both know Wikipedia and they do what they can to promote access to
> information in Switzerland and beyond. Gabriel is especially interested in
> getting youth to edit Wikipedia and Brian contributes to health content on
> Wikipedia.
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GastelEtzwane>
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Biosthmors> <--- pressed for time but
> friendly online
>
> Thanks for your attention! There is a concerted effort to improve articles
> on open science and open access before the summer of 2014, when at
> Wikimania, the international Wikipedia conference, we are making a media
> push for recognition that Wikipedians and others need access to information
> to make the articles that people are demanding!
>
> yours,
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: CelyaHYPhd <celyagd(a)hackyourphd.org>
> Date: Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 5:59 PM
> Subject: Some news..
> To: Lane Rasberry <lane(a)bluerasberry.com>
>
>
> Hi Lane
>
> How are you?
>
> The last steps of my travel were really busy. Since one week now, I've had
> more time to put the last interviews online. I also wrote some articles
> about Boston and Montréal<http://hackyourphd.org/en/2013/09/9th-to-20th-august-open-science-montreal-…>and I hope to finish my article about NY tomorrow!
>
> Here is your open science interview<https://soundcloud.com/hackyourphd/hyphdus-lane-rasberry-wikipedia-health>
>
> I read also your comments about Kay's article about the Mozilla Science
> Lab.
>
> Thats why I wanted t to let you know that we will certainly organize an
> OpenScience wikisprint with the P2Pfoundation and Wikipedia during the OKcon
> Hackday <http://okcon.org/> on sept 19th
>
> Pierre Carl Langlais the french wikipedian PdD student is helping to
> settle everything.
> Here is the draf <https://etherpad.mozilla.org/OKCon-OpenScienceHackDay>t
> for different sessions we'd like to organize..
> Your advice are welcome
>
>
> Best
>
> Célya
>
>
>
> --
> Célya Gruson-Daniel
> HackYourPhD co-founder
> #OpenScience community "Lets invent a research more open and transparent!"
> Site : hackyourphd.org
> Facebook Group / <https://www.facebook.com/groups/499463776745202/>Google
> group <hackyourphd(a)googlegroups.com>
> Twitter : @celyagd <http://www.twitter.com/celyagd>/ @hackyourphd<http://www.twitter.com/hackyourphd>
> Page G+<https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/105961843978246755631/105961843978246755631/p…>
>
> Follow HackYourPhD aux States : hackyourphd.org/USA
>
>
>
> --
> Lane Rasberry
> 206.801.0814
> lane(a)bluerasberry.com
>
--
Lane Rasberry
206.801.0814
lane(a)bluerasberry.com
Hello all,
This email talks about an upcoming effort to develop the Wikipedia article
on "open science" at the the Open Knowledge Foundation conference 16-18
September in Geneva and online. The request is that anyone who is able
should consider submitting something to that Wikipedia article - or to this
list for those unfamiliar with Wikipedia - so that people can learn more
about open science. The rest of this email talks about that - there is no
need to read further if you are not interested in participating.
*Why this matters*
One way to describe open science is to say that it is the idea that all
science intended to be made available should be made available. Right now
there are barriers to collaboration in science, including inability of
researchers to read papers (lack of open access) and inability of
researchers to share data (lack of open data).
Since the Wikipedia article on "open science" is the first returned result
for a search engine query on the topic, securing the usefulness of this
Wikipedia article is probably a prerequisite to anticipating that mass
media will ever talk about open science and thus encourage a social
movement.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science>
*How anyone can help*
The easiest way that anyone can develop any Wikipedia article is to make
sure that all major sources describing a topic are at least cited and
mentioned in the references section of that Wikipedia article. If sources
are not identified, then no one can develop the article. Please look at the
sources already cited and if anyone knows a fundamental source of "open
science" not mentioned in this article then please post it on Wikipedia or
if that is not possible, mention it in this mailing list.
Otherwise, anyone can edit Wikipedia at any time. Feel free to jump in by
going to any Wikipedia article and clicking "edit" at the top of the page.
If you do something wrong then I assure you that your contribution will be
salvaged and integrated by others.
Although the conference and drive to improve this article is 16-18
September, actually you can feel free to contribute to Wikipedia at any
time.
*Who can do this*
Stakeholders in the public perception of the concept of "open science"
should consider that at least this project will influence them, just
because this article will be for the foreseeable future the central source
of information on this topic. Anyone who likes can give input.
This effort is being organized by Ceyla of HackYourPhD.org. She just went
on an international open science tour and documented an oral history of
open science. She will be at OKCon in Geneva and can assist people at that
conference. I [[user:bluerasberry]] on Wikipedia or
lane(a)bluerasberry.comcan assist people on Wikipedia or otherwise
online.
<http://hackyourphd.org/en/> Ceyla - at the conference
*<https://etherpad.mozilla.org/OKCon-OpenScienceHackDay> <------- Most
details planned here *
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bluerasberry> Lane - online only
The P2P Foundation is an organizational overseer in this effort.
<http://p2pfoundation.net/>
I would also like to advertise that there is a mailing list for the
Wikipedia community about internal policy on open access - open access
advocates may want to subscribe to this here.
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/openaccess>
Also I would like to advertise that I recognize the Open Knowledge
Foundation as a major international player in promoting community
discussion about open science and related topics.
Finally I would like to point to Gabriel Thullen and Brian as active
Wikipedians who live in Geneva. I have no idea whether they might be able
to say hello to any open science fans attending this conference but they do
both know Wikipedia and they do what they can to promote access to
information in Switzerland and beyond. Gabriel is especially interested in
getting youth to edit Wikipedia and Brian contributes to health content on
Wikipedia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:GastelEtzwane>
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Biosthmors> <--- pressed for time but
friendly online
Thanks for your attention! There is a concerted effort to improve articles
on open science and open access before the summer of 2014, when at
Wikimania, the international Wikipedia conference, we are making a media
push for recognition that Wikipedians and others need access to information
to make the articles that people are demanding!
yours,
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: CelyaHYPhd <celyagd(a)hackyourphd.org>
Date: Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 5:59 PM
Subject: Some news..
To: Lane Rasberry <lane(a)bluerasberry.com>
Hi Lane
How are you?
The last steps of my travel were really busy. Since one week now, I've had
more time to put the last interviews online. I also wrote some articles
about Boston and
Montréal<http://hackyourphd.org/en/2013/09/9th-to-20th-august-open-science-montreal-…>and
I hope to finish my article about NY tomorrow!
Here is your open science
interview<https://soundcloud.com/hackyourphd/hyphdus-lane-rasberry-wikipedia-health>
I read also your comments about Kay's article about the Mozilla Science
Lab.
Thats why I wanted t to let you know that we will certainly organize an
OpenScience wikisprint with the P2Pfoundation and Wikipedia during the OKcon
Hackday <http://okcon.org/> on sept 19th
Pierre Carl Langlais the french wikipedian PdD student is helping to settle
everything.
Here is the draf <https://etherpad.mozilla.org/OKCon-OpenScienceHackDay>t
for different sessions we'd like to organize..
Your advice are welcome
Best
Célya
--
Célya Gruson-Daniel
HackYourPhD co-founder
#OpenScience community "Lets invent a research more open and transparent!"
Site : hackyourphd.org
Facebook Group / <https://www.facebook.com/groups/499463776745202/>Google
group <hackyourphd(a)googlegroups.com>
Twitter : @celyagd <http://www.twitter.com/celyagd>/
@hackyourphd<http://www.twitter.com/hackyourphd>
Page G+<https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/105961843978246755631/105961843978246755631/p…>
Follow HackYourPhD aux States : hackyourphd.org/USA
--
Lane Rasberry
206.801.0814
lane(a)bluerasberry.com
Dear all, I forward in this list a simple proposal I made for and icon
system
for the Signalling OAness project on Wikipedia.
Some of you have just read it, but I think it's important to restart the
conversation on this new OA ml.
We have a lot of things to decide for this project - one of this is a sort
of icon system.
TL;DR: My proposal for icons is:
* grey padlock for "closed access"
* yellow-ish or grey-ish padlock for "embargoed" or "CC-BY-NC and CC-BY-ND"
articles.
* golden padlock for "CC-BY" and "CC-BY-SA"
----
There are many approaches that we could take:
for example, we can intend "open access" literally, and give the golden
padlock (or another icon) to any "gratis" article,
or we can intend "Open Access", be more strict and give it to "libre" ones.
Leslie, in the skype call, mentioned the "how open is it" leaflet:
http://www.plos.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/hoii_guide_rev2_web_jpegs2.j…
We have somehow 6 dimensions:
1 Reader Rights
2 Reuse Rights
3 Copyrights
4 Author Posting Rights
5 Automatic Posting
6 Machine Readability
The situation is similar in the Linked Open Data world, and they solved
that with a star classification system: http://5stardata.info/
We can go in that direction, and develop our own star/color/whatever
system...
But for the purpose of the signalling OA in Wikipedia I would stick with
"user rights", namely
1. Reader Rights
2. Reuse Rights
Remembering that we need to analyze at the article-level, and we don't care
about journals (not for now), things get simpler.
So, this is my break down.
Articles could either be:
* gratis or
* non gratis --> closed access, grey padlack
And if they are gratis, are they immediate accessible?
* yes
* no -> embargo. We could have an explicit date for that, retrivable by
bot, or we can simply have an icon.
If they are gratis and immediately accessible, we can then break down the
reuse rights with CC licenses.
So, following along these arguments, my personal system would involve use
of padlock with appropriate colors:
* grey padlock for closed access
* yellow-ish or grey-ish padlock for embargoed or CC-BY-NC and CC-BY-ND
articles.
* golden padlock for CC-BY and CC-BY-SA
Note that I've compressed in 3 icons a much complex situation, but it's a
start, maybe.
I'd invite you to give me feedback about this, and propose different
systems if mine is not amendable.
Aubrey
Hi all,
what do you plan to do for the incoming Open Access Week?
Lane was saying that he'd like to work on the OA page on Wikipedia,
and I think it's a *great* idea.
We could concentrate our effort during the Open Access Week, for example.
In Italy, we will have an hackathon in the National Library of Florence:
during that day, we will speak a lot about Wikidata, authority control and
other things,
but i would like to have a little "editathon" on the Open Access article
too.
We could translate the English version, for example, and rearrange our
Italian article.
It's not a very original idea,
but I think it's important.
Do you have other plans?
Aubrey
Dear all,
every month, the Wiki-GLAM community compiles a newsletter on recent activities:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter .
Since January 2012 - when WikiProject Open Access was founded - it has
included a report on the project's activities:
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:This_Month_in_GLAM_Open_Access…
.
The newsletter is usually being posted on the 7th day of the following
month (sometimes a few hours or days later), and our reports tend to
reach on the order of a hundred people that way over the days
following that.
I would appreciate if you could chime in on the drafting of these
reports each month. I have started the entry for August at
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/August_2013/Contents/Op…
. Given that the July report was rather short due to my mishaps on the
way to Wikimania, we can also think of adding a few July bits if you
like - the OA signalling and OA button initiatives would perhaps be
good candidates here.
Thanks and cheers,
Daniel
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Romaine Wiki <romaine_wiki(a)yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 10:55 PM
Subject: [cultural-partners] What happened with GLAM in August? (and
maybe July?)
To: cultural-partners(a)wikimedia.ch
What happened with GLAM in August? Let us know and write a (short)
report about it for the newsletter 'This Month in GLAM' so that the
worldwide and local Wikimedia community can read what happened in your
area. Also this will encourage others to participate and donate
material.
You can start writing here:
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/Newsroom
If your country/area isn't mentioned on the page, you can always add
it to: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/August_2013/Contents
Please mention also the GLAM activities on our calendar on:
http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Calendar/September_2013
Also mention Wiki Loves Monuments, just started!
If anyone needs help/explanation about the newsletter, please ask!
Thanks & greetings!
Romaine
_______________________________________________
Cultural-Partners mailing list
Cultural-Partners(a)wikimedia.ch
https://intern.wikimedia.ch/lists/listinfo/cultural-partners
Please treat emails sent to this list as confidential.Ask senders for
permission before forwarding emails off-list.
