Re: [Wiki-research-l] U.S. open access policy comment period open [important]

Jake, thanks for sharing this. It's good to see more movement in this space. When Dario Taraborelli and the Legal team at Wikimedia Foundation made the Open Access Policy [1] happen in 2015, we felt it was long overdue to have this policy in place. 5 years later and we still need many more efforts in this space to make open access a reality. You may have already seen this, sharing just in case: A recent study by Piccardi et al. to quantify the engagement with citations on Wikipedia shows that open-access references used in Wikipedia on STEM-related pages seem to receive more clicks (by readers) than other traditionally more closed references. They find that words like "free" and "pdf" (in the reference line) are among the top predictors of click on citations while more traditionally closed sources such as JSTOR are negative predictors of clicks): https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.08614.pdf Best, Leila -- Leila Zia Head of Research Wikimedia Foundation [1] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_access_policy On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 10:54 AM Jake Orlowitz <jorlowitz(a)gmail.com> wrote: