Thanks for starting this important conversation, Aubrey!
I'm interested in working on the repository end to make free to read
content more visible to any future bots. Projects like Unpaywall often work
well with PubMed and arXiv, but struggle to surface content in university
repositories. This is largely an issue with repository infrastructure, but
there is likely work to be done on both ends. Antonin and I have discussed
this at length re:OABot, and it'd be great to work through these issues
with other metadata-folk as well.
Megs
On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 7:49 AM, Daniel Mietchen <
daniel.mietchen(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
Thanks both.
Yes, we should keep trying to move this forward, both by way of adding
free-to-readness icons (as Antonin et al. are doing) and by importing
into Wikisource as much as possible of the openly licensed literature,
such that people become more aware of reusability.
Lots of past discussions on these topics, but not so much community
enthusiasm overall. Latest example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help_talk:Citation_Style_1#
Adding_a_license_parameter
.
The "subscription required" icon is one of the oldest in this space:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:
Subscription_required&action=history
Cheers,
d.
On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 1:25 PM, Antonin Delpeuch (lists)
<lists(a)antonin.delpeuch.eu> wrote:
Hi Aubrey,
About the signalling: we have worked to integrate OA locks into the
citation templates, so that people can signal which source or which
identifier is free to read or behind a paywall.
For instance, in a {{cite journal}} template, you can use
|doi=10.4204/EPTCS.244.2|doi-access=free
to signal that this DOI is open access.
It is not clear if the broader Wikipedia community really wants this
signalling however, so the project is stalled by the outcome of the
following RFCs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(
proposals)/Archive_135#Access_locks:_Visual_Design_RFC
proposals)/Archive_135#Access_Locks:_Citation_Template_Behaviour_RFC
About finding OA versions of papers, there is a proposal for a bot that
would add OA links to citations (using the same metadata sources as
unpaywall and the OA button):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/OAbot
Here is an example of the sort of edits it performs:
https://tools.wmflabs.org/oabot/edits/2017-02-26T23:00:
26.058245_765290719_Autocorrelation.html
If anybody wants to get involved in the coding of this bot, that would
be much appreciated. I can give access to the Git repo and the Tools lab
account.
Pintoch
On 06/04/2017 10:14, Andrea Zanni wrote:
> Hi everyone.
> After the great meeting that some of us had in Berlin,
> I'd like to ask again what can we do to revive the "signalling open
> access" project¹.
> For those who don't know it, the idea was to put an icon beside links in
> references, on Wikipedia, expressing
> * if it's behind a paywall
> * if it's free-to-read
> * if it's free to reuse
>
> There are already great projects who find OA-versions of articles
> online, like Unpaywall² or Open Access Button³. All their code is open
> source and also the indexing of OA articles, so I'm sure there is room
> for collaboration.
>
> I've also noticed that, right now, on Wikipedia, you can have a
> "subscription required" icon beside some references. Is someone involved
> in the that upgrade?
>
> Aubrey
>
> ¹
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_
Access/Signalling_OA-ness
²
http://unpaywall.org
³
https://openaccessbutton.org/
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