GLAM/Newsletter/January 2013/Contents/Open Access report

This Month in GLAM – Volume III, Issue I, January 2013

Open Access report

Aaron is dead; 1 year WikiProject Open Access

Aaron Swartz dead

On January 11, Aaron Swartz died. He has had a profound effect on many corners of the Web, including the Wikimedia and Open Access communities. His actions towards providing Open Access to scholarly research articles were controversial, but even more so the reactions by the legal system that likely contributed to his early death.

Let's make the world that wouldn't have killed him.

1 year WikiProject Open Access

WikiProject Open Access was started on January 10 last year. The anniversary was marked by the publication of the second Topic Page in PLOS Computational Biology — which now lives on in the article Approximate Bayesian computation on the English Wikipedia — and by the Commons category Open access (publishing) passing the mark of 15,000 files, which have been used a total of over 75,000 times across Wikimedia projects.

Open Access Media Importer

The Open Access Media Importer has now imported over 10,000 files to Wikimedia Commons and is currently mainly working on the upload of files from recently published articles. Fine-tuning of the code continues, as well as work on getting some older files uploaded despite earlier problems with them. By the end of January, the tool has also been migrated to a server at the University of Regensburg, where it is planned to stay at least until the future of the Toolserver or a functional equivalent becomes clear.

Gallery

The following files represent a selection of what has been uploaded by the Open Access Media Importer this month. If you can think of wiki pages where these files could be useful, please put them in there or let us know.

Articles started this month

According to TreeViews, 28 articles on OA topics have been started this month across languages, including

WikiProject Open Access News

The following news from WikiProject Open Access have been posted this month (in reverse chronological order):

Water droplets rolling down an inclined plane with a superhydrophobically coated surface.

January 31: A video of water droplets rolling down an inclined plane with a superhydrophobically coated surface is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originally published in Nanoscale Research Letters last August and recently uploaded to Commons by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page, video, Drop (liquid) article, Inclined plane article, Superhydrophobe article.

A cell full of red.

January 29: A video of a Haematococcus pluvialis cell filled with astaxanthin (red) is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originally published in PLOS ONE earlier this month and uploaded to Commons by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page, video, Haematococcus pluvialis article, Astaxanthin article.

Calling song of Magicicada cassini.

January 27: An audio recording of the calling song of the 17-year cicada Magicicada cassini is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originally published in 2007 in PLOS ONE and uploaded to Commons by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page, sound file, Magicicada cassini article.

January 24: The beetle Termitotrox cupido, originally described in ZooKeys earlier this month, is featured in the Did you know section on the Main Page of the Russian Wikipedia (traffic stats).

Mice running around between a set of nests, thereby making their social network visible.

January 18: A video highlighting the dynamics in a social network of mice is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originally published in PLOS Computational Biology in November and uploaded to Commons by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page, video, Social network article.

A PhD Comic special explaining open access.

January 16: A video special of PhD Comics on Open Access is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day, starring phylogeneticist Jonathan Eisen and SPARC's Nick Shockey. It was originally published on the occasion of Open Access Week 2012. Traffic stats: Main Page, video, Open Access article, Open Access Week article, Phylogenetics article, Jonathan Eisen article, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition article.

Motion-tracked finger movements of two pianists playing the same piece.

January 14: A video showing motion-tracked finger movements of two pianists playing the same piece is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originally published in PLOS ONE earlier this month and uploaded to Commons by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page, video, Motion tracking article, Pianist article.

January 13: The frog Paedophryne swiftorum, originally described in PLOS ONE in January last year, is featured in the Did you know section on the Main Page of the English Wikipedia (traffic stats), one year after its slightly smaller sister species Paedophryne amauensis, the smallest known vertebrate, was there in the news (traffic stats).

January 11: Aaron Swartz (User:AaronSw), an activist for open access and open knowledge more broadly as well as against internet censorship, dies. See this post on the Wikimedia blog for more information and The Signpost for further details.

January 10: The second PLOS Computational Biology Topic Page has been published today, providing the basis for a new version of Approximate Bayesian computation.
January 10: The Category "Open access (publishing)" on Wikimedia Commons has crossed the mark of 15,000 files this afternoon with a video originally published in BMC Biophysics in June 2012 and uploaded by the Open Access Media Importer.

A map of Cambodia showing how Dengue fever cases are distributed across the country during different times of the year.

January 10: A video showing weekly incidence rates of Dengue fever on a map of Cambodia from January 2002 to December 2008 is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originally published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases last month and uploaded to Commons by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page, video, Dengue fever article, Incidence rate article, Cambodia article.
January 10: WikiProject Open Access turns one year.

A microstructure folding into a cube.

January 8: A video demonstrating how cells can help microstructures with origami is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originally published in PLOS Biology last month and uploaded to Commons by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page, video, Microstructure article, Origami article.
January 7: Open Access report in the December 2012 issue of This month in GLAM, along with a Tool testing report on the reuse of multiple open-access files in Wikipedia pages. Traffic stats: Open Access report, Tool testing report

January 5: The first image from commons:Category:Open access (publishing) is deployed on Wikivoyage, in the German-language article Pasco. It was originally published in ZooKeys in October 2012.

Wolbachia

January 5: The article it:Wolbachia is featured on the Main Page of the Italian Wikipedia, along with an image originally published in PLOS Biology in 2004.

Cell and tissue dynamics in zebrafish fin development.

January 5: The Open Access Media Importer crosses the mark of 10,000 files uploaded from PubMed Central to Wikimedia Commons with a video on fin development in zebrafish, originally published in PLOS ONE last month.

Robots moving around in an enclosure, initially rather erratically, then in a coherent fashion.

January 3: A video demonstrating how the principles of natural selection can lead to learning in robots is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originally published in PLOS Biology in 2010 and uploaded to Commons by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page, video, Robot article, Natural selection article.

Brown Boobies in flight at sea.

January 2: Video footage recorded by Brown Boobies in flight off the coast of Nakanokamishima (an uninhabited Japanese island of the Yaeyama group) is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originally published in PLOS ONE in 2011 and uploaded to Commons by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page, video, Brown Booby article, Nakanokamishima article, Yaeyama Islands article.

Open Access File of the Day

The following files have been featured as Open Access File of the Day this month:

January 31: Lectotypes of pleurocerids sympatric with Leptoxis compacta
January 30: A Common Myna.
January 29: A series of primate skulls, with brain size indicated.
January 28: Australian rock art depicting long-beaked echidnas.
January 27: Mating position of Latrodectus bishopi spiders (female in white, male in black).
January 26: The frog Boophis williamsi.
January 25: A digestive tubule cell of the sea slug Elysia clarki with chloroplasts (C) and nucleus (N). Scale bar: 3 µm.
January 24: Artistic reconstruction of Wintonotitan.
January 23: Song of the 17-year cicada Magicicada septendecula.
January 22: The ground beetle Broscus cephalotes.
January 21: The gastrotrich Thaumastoderma ramuliferum. Scale bar: 20 µm.
January 20: The lizard Kentropyx calcarata.
January 19: A human karyogram with a ring chromosome.
January 18: Atelopus franciscus advertisement call
January 17: The butterfly Aricoris propitia attended by the fire ant Solenopsis saevissima.
January 16: zebra finch song
January 15: Oxydromus pugettensis, a bristle worm.
January 14: A Lamellibrachia luymesi tube worm.
January 13: The ground beetle Calosoma sycophanta.
January 12: Motion tracking of two pianists' fingers playing the same piece (slow motion, no sound).
January 11: Panoramic view of the Raja Ampat Islands, Indonesia.
January 10: Negative stain electron micrograph of a gamma phage. Used on 130 Wikipedias.
January 9: Glial distribution of Cu/Zn SOD immunoreactivity in intact immature brain
January 8: A congenital melanocytic nevus.
January 7: X-ray video of a female American alligator while breathing.
January 6: Trachemys adiutrix turtles in Lençóis Maranhenses National Park, Brazil.
January 5: Mourning Dove vocalizations.
January 4: A bumblebee worker with a transponder attached to its back, visiting a rapeseed flower.
January 3: Suggested "Out of Africa" migratory routes according to mitochondrial DNA.
January 2: Craig Venter.
January 1: Two specimens of the flatworm Pseudobiceros bedfordi about to engage in penis fencing.