[Open-access] Science Source proposal

Sun Feb 11 11:55:46 UTC 2018

One of the problems of Open Access and Open Science is that most "public"
scientific knowledge is still behind paywalls. Even when it is "Open
Access" it is often difficult and time-consuming to search for. In practice
citizens outside academia don't know of and don't use these sources and
their first Open point of call is Wikimedia.
In ContentMine (an Open non-profit company) we have worked with a Wikimedia
grant to develop WikiFactMine (open dictionaries and open bibliography in
Wikidata). We are now proposing to create a curated, annotated, resource of
the most valuable articles in biomedicine. The initial value will be for
WikiMedicine to support the reviewing process and for Wikijournals in
editing and enhancing their publications. See

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/ScienceSource

However a successful project will have wider implications and act as a
focal point for discovering the most valuable, semantically annotated
biomedical Open Access articles.

Note that we require CC BY or CC BY-SA for these papers as other licences
do not permit annotation and / or redistribution. We hope this acts as an
argument for licensing papers as consistent with the Open Definition.

If you are interested in suporting this reply here or leave a message on
the project Discussion / Talk page.

-- 
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader Emeritus in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dept. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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