Tools like the Open Access button (
openaccessbutton.org) can be used to search for OA
versions of articles - we link to this from the TWL navbox on English, and I believe on a
couple of other languages. Updating the link would likely require the use of a bot, and
I'm not sure how easy that would be to do automatically.
Cheers,
Nikki
From: smachefert(a)gmail.com
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 16:18:54 +0100
To: wikipedia-library(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikipedia Library] Finding links to OA versions of articles ?
Hi all,
There has been quite discussion on a French list I am subscribing to regarding the latest
partnership with elsevier (and I suspect we can expect a lot of attraction with this new
partnership ...)
One of the interesting question raised was: is there any plan to try to automatically
find, when. There is a pay walled article referenced somewhere, if an OA version exists,
and if yes update the link.
I think it should be covered by TWL, if it doesn't exist yet. Do you know anything
about any initiative of that kind ?
Thanks,
Sylvain
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