[Open-access] Open Access resources

Tue May 27 14:32:28 UTC 2014

Responses inline:

On 25 May 2014 01:53, Daniel Mietchen <daniel.mietchen at googlemail.com>wrote:

> There are a number of Open Access resources related to Wikimedia
> projects that tend (or at least attempt) to be engaging for
> non-experts. That includes the Open Access File of the Day (cf.
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Open_Access_File_of_the_Day )
>

I love this - how do you choose what is the open access file of the day? Is
there a process for it?

>
> Some rough measure of engagement is available through tools like
> http://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/baglama2/#gid=97&month=201404 ,
> which calculates the number of page views across Wikimedia pages that
> contain images from a given category on Wikimedia Commons. By that
> measure, materials from Open Access sources receive on the order of
> one million page views per day across Wikimedia sites.
>

This is really the kind of thing that can help show the value of things
being OA  in terms of awareness raising.

>
> Furthermore, we are working on a system that would signal to Wikipedia
> users that a reference cited on Wikipedia is openly licensed, and
> whether any of the associated materials are available on Wikimedia
> projects (e.g. full text on Wikisource, media on Wikimedia Commons,
> and metadata on Wikidata):
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Access/Signalling_OA-ness

I've heard about this - I'm not sure it's quite right for this at present,
but love to hear more about it at some time.

>
> .
>
> In all that, humanities and social sciences are not very visible, even
> though we have tried to bring more such content onto Wikimedia
> platforms. If anyone reading this has ideas how to improve that
> situation, please share them.
>

Seconded! I'm sure we must have some HSS types on this list - although one
of my goals is to increase the number of these engaging in discussions
about OA.

>
> Some of these reuses may well be interesting or relevant in HSS contexts.
>
> So when looking for examples of Open Access in those fields, it may be
> worthwhile to start in areas that are media- or data-intensive but not
> hampered that much by copyright. One of these is the study of ancient
> scripts - epigraphy - and a good overview of Open Access activities
> related to that is available in the presentation by Brett Bobley from
> about 31:30 till 37:00 min in the video at
> http://live.worldbank.org/open-access-week-2013 (see also
> http://www.digitalepigraphy.org/ ).
>
> This is a brilliant  resource - and exactly what we're looking for. Thank
you ever so much!

> Other suitable areas may be field work in ethnology or linguistics,
> where scholars often hold the copyright to the media and data they
> analyze, or economics, much of which is based on the analysis of
> publicly available data.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Daniel
> --
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>
> On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Douglas Carnall
> <dougie.carnall at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Michelle,
> >
> > You (and everyone else) are very welcome to help themselves to my tagged
> > public bookmarks collection on open access:
> >
> > https://pinboard.in/u:juliusbeezer/t:openaccess
> >
> > Naturally it's a somewhat idiosyncratically personal collection but feel
> > free to plunder. I've written a short blogpost introducing the collection
> > here:
> >
> >
> http://juliusbeezer.blogspot.fr/2014/05/why-i-keep-public-bookmarks-and-where.html
> >
> > Regards to all,
> >
> > D.
> >
> >
> >
> > 2014-05-22 10:07 GMT+02:00 Michelle Brook <michelle.brook at okfn.org>:
> >>
> >> Hey all,
> >>
> >> Summary - I'm looking for engaging open access resources for non
> experts,
> >> especially those aimed at humanities and social sciences. Can you help?
> >>
> >> I'm looking for open access resources which are engaging, and can help
> >> convince a sceptical academic audience about why they should support
> open
> >> access and care about academic publishing. These will go up on a couple
> of
> >> websites, including the Open Access Working Group, and a upcoming site
> >> targeted at engaging those who don't spend their life thinking about
> >> scholarly publication.
> >>
> >> I've been looking but I keep getting stuck. Much of what I find is
> rather
> >> dense, contains confusing language etc. I was hoping members of the
> working
> >> group might know of further examples/ideas.
> >>
> >> We are looking for materials that target humanities and social
> scientists,
> >> as well as scientists. These might be videos, flyers, posters, or
> slidedecks
> >> for talks that have been given (with appropriate licenses). I've been
> >> starting to collect these here:
> >>
> https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/document/d/12aPoB2VKoF7vkWN4gEm1hDzGnYaEU-bOYak4zrazEOA/edit#
> >>
> >> Any ideas *really* gratefully received. I'm sure lots of people on this
> >> mailing list know of resources they use when talking to academics about
> this
> >> issue.
> >>
> >> I'm also looking to understand what resources haven't been created, and
> >> what other gaps there are. What do people think they really could use
> for
> >> advocacy work? Again there is space for this on the spreadsheet - or
> feel
> >> free to ping me an email separately.
> >>
> >> For the time being, I'm mainly looking for resources in English. If you
> >> know of any interesting non-English resources, feel free to add them,
> but
> >> there will be a specific call for these in a few months time.
> >>
> >> If anyone has a problem with using Google Docs, let me know and I'll
> ping
> >> you across a .odt version of the document.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Michelle
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Michelle Brook
> >>
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> >>
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> >
> >
> >
> > --
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