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== Examples of OA in use == |
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Jack Andraka (@jackandraka) won the ISEF science fair for his work creating a better test for pancreatic cancer (~10^9 better overall [performance*price] than existing tests). |
Jack Andraka (@jackandraka) won the ISEF science fair for his work creating a better test for pancreatic cancer (~10^9 better overall [performance*price] than existing tests). Most of the detailed research he needed beyond Google + Wikipedia knowledge was locked behind paywalls. ~$20-100 per item. |
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* Lowest-hanging fruit to make OA the default for everyone: |
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*; Target research funders: get them to require OA publishing to get funding. This affects 80% of all research (by #? by impact?) but much research is funded more by international agencies, not just gov. agencies. |
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*; Sensitize people to WP as an OA signal: get them to check the reference section on WP articles to measure OA impact. |
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*; Get Wikimedia's public support: Indicate global support for the effort and alignment of OA and free knowledge. The idea that OA is essential and part of good research. |
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==Wikimedia activities== |
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Revision as of 07:34, 10 August 2013
Open access resources and projects.
The Open Access movement is a movement to make all scholarly literature, and all publicly funded research, freely available to everyone online.
Examples of OA in use
Jack Andraka (@jackandraka) won the ISEF science fair for his work creating a better test for pancreatic cancer (~10^9 better overall [performance*price] than existing tests). Most of the detailed research he needed beyond Google + Wikipedia knowledge was locked behind paywalls. ~$20-100 per item.
Policy wishlist
- By country
- There are only 14 countries with comprehensive OA mandates. Now including the NIH mandate from 2008. Look at templates and push for o ne to take effect in your country.
- Spread one succes in your country to others. There are 24 total funding agencies in the US national government; only NIH has the above, and SPARC and others are pushing to extend that model.
- By field
- By topic
- Alternate metrics
- design and promote alt metrics that include publishing through Wikipedia. Articulate how publishing to WP helps to spread adoption of methods and ideas. Maintain, evaluate, and publish the results of evaluating those metrics.
- Lowest-hanging fruit to make OA the default for everyone:
- Target research funders
- get them to require OA publishing to get funding. This affects 80% of all research (by #? by impact?) but much research is funded more by international agencies, not just gov. agencies.
- Sensitize people to WP as an OA signal
- get them to check the reference section on WP articles to measure OA impact.
- Get Wikimedia's public support
- Indicate global support for the effort and alignment of OA and free knowledge. The idea that OA is essential and part of good research.
Wikimedia activities
- Wikimedia Italia's Wiki and Open Access (Italian) (Open Access Week 2009, see short report (English))
- Wikimedia Italia's Condivisione, scienza, bene comune (Italian), Digital Freedoms Festival 2010.
Wikimania 2013 OA panel
- Etherpad for notes
Nick Shockey - leads the Right to Research Coalition.
Lane Rasberry - WiR for Consumer Reports.
Lesley Chan - bio informatics journal and related journals. It's a platform basd in Brazil since 1993. He's also assoc. director at U. Toronto Scarborough, teaching and studying how OA could address the N/S imbalance in knowledge production and related development issues: including neglected tropical diseases, food security, and social justice.
Daniel Mietchen - biophysicist; working on semantic data on the web. WM work on science sustainability, outreach to science communities, and collaboration across projects and chapters. WiR on Open Science.
Aubrey - digital librarian, works with Open Access journals from University of Bologna. Slides