Dear WPL colleagues,
Thank you for responding to my query about making approaches to
. I really
appreciate having sensible advice. Your feedback indicates caution, and raises the
possibility that there may be little to be gained from an arrangement with them; I will go
ahead and make queries, especially about the legal side and the user agreement as would
relate to WPL access, but shall make no commitments. I'll bring their response back to
the list for consideration.
Regards,
James
James McArdle
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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 11:48:41 -0700
From: ahmed yousif <ashashyou(a)yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: [Wikipedia Library] Wikipedia-Library Digest, Vol 10,
Issue 5
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Just a hint.
Being a payable article does not mean that it is not open access.
My own experience is that some journals when submitting your article will put a"time
frame" for the article. For example 6 years, after that the author can share the
article unrestricted. So some authors upload thier articles to
.
Also there is now awealth of open access journals and of open access articles in non-open
access journals.
Regards,
Ahmed Shawky Mohammedin
User:ashashyou
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Hi,
In relation to Open Access papers, I'm wondering if WPL has had dealings with
Academia.edu? (I'm new to WPL). Their website makes available papers across all
disciplines by current academics who are subscribed.
Outsiders can see a few recommended articles, but there is a wealth of material hidden
from them. I have contacts there as I am one of their recommending editors.
Can you tell me from your experience, is it worthwhile exploring whether of access can be
provided to,or via, WPL for our users?
Regards,
James
James McArdle
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Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 11:27:41 -0500
From: "Paul S. Wilson" <paulscrawl(a)gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Wikipedia Library] OA
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Interesting question, James.
Academia.edu serves millions as a personal repository for their academic
preprints (usually legal) and published versions (often not so) - the
question is, do we dare risk such when institutional depositories with
vetting of allowable content are readily available?
As an experiment, [[
Academia.edu]] article has a cited reference to
paywalled content (footnote #11 as of today) to which I've appended a link
to the preprint version of the article on
academia.edu, noting "/*
Reception */ + "Academia.edu preprint" (with differing pagination from
canonical published version; other editorial changes likely) of Thelwall &
Kousha (2012)".
Per Academia.edu's voluminous [
https://www.academia.edu/terms terms of
use], such "Member Content" is severely restricted.
Would be interested in gaining access to site content, if TWL can negotiate
- or learn to live with - latter.
Paul S. Wilson
Research Coordinator
The Wikipedia Library