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- Wikipedia Library News
- TWL is grateful to have two Wikipedians helping out with accounts dispersal. Nikkimaria will be vetting and awarding HighBeam and Credo accounts, and ChrisGualtieri will handle Questia account requests. Thanks to both for joining the TWL team. As a result of the above, backlogs of applications at HighBeam and Questia have been cleared!
- Although we have no new partnerships to announce this month, we are in discussions with several database providers about some exciting prospective donations for 2014, including EBSCO, ProQuest, New York Times, and LexisNexis. Talks are ongoing with JSTOR to extend and expand that program.
- Free accounts are still available with HighBeam, Questia, and Cochrane. Please spread the world to any colleagues who might not have heard about the opportunities.
- TWL also welcomes Johnuniq as our metrics coordinator; he has already done much valuable metrics work for TWL in the past.
- A big thanks to those who completed our survey last month. This data is valuable not only for guiding the future of TWL, but also to potential new partners who want to know more about TWL and what our editors want in terms of database access. Take a look at the results here
- TWL Coordinator Ocaasi has submitted his final report for the Individual Engagement Grant which funded TWL for 2013. You can read it on Meta here. To help TWL expand in 2014, an extension request has been submitted. Please feel free to add comments and feedback in the bottom section.
- There are currently 2 Wikipedia Visiting Scholar positions open (George Mason University, University of California Riverside). These are lightweight Wikipedian-in-Residence-like positions, but they're remote, unpaid, and the whole point is to get you library catalogue access so you can write articles. Please signup, and more positions are in development.
- Credo partnership results in 600% growth of Credo links
- TWL attended the December GLAMOUT, an online discussion on Dec 6
- TWL is presenting at the American Library Association's mid-winter meeting Jan 24-26
- TWL has a forthcoming feature article in Library Journal and The Digital Shift
- JSTOR partnership extended until March 31 2014
- New TWL Account Coordinators: User:Nikkimaria and User:ChrisGualtieri
- Wikipedia Visiting Scholar positions open for signups
- Second edition of Books & Bytes is out
- New talk presented at George Mason University, The Future of Libraries and Wikipedia
- Wikipedia Library newsletter, Books and Bytes, releases it inaugural edition, October 2013
- Personal profiles added to The Wikipedia Library
- Wikipedia Visiting Scholars program starts looking for pilot partners
- OCLC collaboration begins working on tools to let us search their entire catalogue
- Related News
- The US National Archives is offering a new virtual internship program for Wikipedians: [1].
- The Computer History Museum, located in the Silicon Valley, California is seeking a Digital Archivist: [2]
- WikiData started a Periodicals Task force: Periodicals Task Force.
- Wikimedia UK arranged a Wikipedian-in-Residence at the Royal Society. User:Johnbod is taking the spot: [3]
- The Ada Lovelace Academy opened a digital school for young adults: [4]
- The British Library donated a million public-domain images: https://github.com/BL-Labs/imagedirectory [5] [6]. Talks are underway for how to catalogue and integrate these images on Commons: [7].
- The National Museum of Korea announce high quality images of 7,300 artifacts would be released, and thousands pages of old books: [8]
- The European Commission launches pilot to open up publicly funded research data: [9]
- The Paleobiology Database is now CC BY: [10]. UNESCO launched a CC Open Access Repository: [11].
- BioMed Central moves to CC BY 4.0 and CC0 for data: [12].
- Norway will begin digitizing every book in its National Library and making free to access for any Norwegian citizen with a Norwegian IP address: [13]
- The Open Knowledge Foundation signed a memorandum of understanding with the BBC (BBC did so as well with the Europeana Foundation, the Open Data Institute and the Mozilla Foundation: [14]
- UK students David Carroll and Joseph McArthur's Open Access Button is developing: [15].
- The US Department of Defense signed an exclusive agreement to license public domain archives: [16]
- Elsevier issued takedown notices to professors posting copies of their papers on research sharing site Academia.edu: [17]
- Ann Okerson wrote a great reflection about the state of open access: [18]. The Open Science Center interviewed leading OA advocates as well: [19]. Dan Cohen considered "CC-0 (+BY) as an ideal system for freedom with optional 'ethical' attribution: [20].
- NISO published a best practices guideline proposal for html metadata to identify the accessibility and reuse rights of a work: [21]. (Compare with WikiProject Open Access' Open access signalling pilot idea.)
- Neat TED talk on the future of libraries in the 21st century: [22]
- Out of 31 "informational world cities", a German survey of libraries by the University of Düsseldorf ranked two Canadian library systems, Vancouver and Montreal, as the best in the world: [23]
- Open Data Day is coming, February 22: [24]