Posted at VP on English Wikipedia and Commons. I would encourage all to
cross post this on your local projects.
V/r
TJW/GMG
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 7:13 PM Leila Zia <lzia(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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:
Hi all,
Amazingly, the U.S. science and technology policy office is considering
making *all* publicly funded research *open access*.
If you are a U.S. citizen, PLEASE comment by March 16th.
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/02/19/2020-03189/request-for…
Cheers,
Jake Orlowitz
*Founder of The Wikipedia Library*
*Seeker of well people and sane societies*
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jakeorlowitz.com
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