User:Daniel Mietchen/Talks/Open Science Summit 2011/Open access

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What actually is Open Access?

• Check whether your idea of it fits with the definition in open access
• OA-ness now routinely flagged in Wikipedia Signpost (manually)

• Allen, L.; Jones, C.; Dolby, K.; Lynn, D.; Walport, M. (2009). Scherer, Roberta W. (ed.). "Looking for Landmarks: The Role of Expert Review and Bibliometric Analysis in Evaluating Scientific Publication Outputs". PLoS ONE. 4 (6): e5910. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0005910. PMC 2695409. PMID 19536339.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
• Ziegler, A.; Kunth, M.; Mueller, S.; Bock, C.; Pohmann, R.; Schröder, L.; Faber, C.; Giribet, G. (2011). "Application of magnetic resonance imaging in zoology". Zoomorphology. doi:10.1007/s00435-011-0138-8.
• Anyone interested in automating that?

Licensing is key

• Wikimedia uses a CC BY-SA license
• In terms of reusability at Wikimedia, simple access rights are not enough
• Anything licensed with a -NC or -ND clause cannot go onto Wikimedia

Open Access Week

• Group Reusing Open Access Materials
• Check whether an article on open access is available in your language(s)
• Which OA-related topics should have a Wikipedia entry?

Wikimedia and Open Access

• Dedicated talk at Open-Access Days 2011
• Key elements:

Part of a figure in an open-access article, which gave rise to multiple reuses on wikis.
Normal adult cortical surface (left), polymicrogyria (center) and lissencephaly (right).

• Reuse

• Original image at publisher, licensed CC-BY
  • Cropped version of original image
    • First reuse of cropped version of original image
    • Second reuse of cropped version of original image
    • Third reuse of cropped version of original image
    • Copy of cropped version of original image, pictured on the right
      • First reuse of copy of cropped version of original image
      • Second reuse of copy of cropped version of original image
      • Cropped version of copy of cropped version of original image
        • First reuse of cropped version of copy of cropped version of original image
        • Second reuse of cropped version of copy of cropped version of original image

• Category:Attribution templates
• Encyclopedic coverage of OA-related topics
• Open Access policy for research supported by the Wikimedia Foundation

• Contributors to Wikipedia are more likely to have made their scholarly articles freely available on the web than non-contributors