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This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue I, January 2014 Normal version • Single page version

Open Access report

Copyright week; Signalling OA-ness; Open Access at Wikimania

By Daniel Mietchen

This image of Xanthichthys ringens is sourced from an open-access scholarly article licensed for re-use. This reusability could be signaled explicitly when citing this source in Wikipedia articles?

The Wikimania 2014 logo

Two years of WikiProject Open Access

On January 10, WikiProject Open Access had its second anniversary. It now has over 60 members that oversee about 300 articles on the English Wikipedia and over 23,000 files on Wikimedia Commons.

Signalling OA-ness

An op-ed in the Signpost discussed how the openness of references cited on Wikipedia could be signaled to the reader and invited community feedback on the Signalling OA-ness project that works on a technical implementation for Wikimedia projects, which could look as follows.

The closely related NISO consultation on a draft specification for Open Access Metadata and Indicators continued throughout the month.

Copyright week

From January 13 to 18, the Electronic Frontiers Foundation organized a week of action around the theme of copyright. This included three posts on the blog of the Wikimedia Foundation, including one on the Public Domain, another on the Wikipedia Library, and a third on the history of interactions the Wikimedia community has had with Open Access.

Wikimania

For this year's Wikimania, Open Access and the wider theme of Open Scholarship are one of the core themes, which is reflected in a dedicated session track. The call for submissions is open until March 31.

Open Access Media Importer

The following represents a selection of the ca. 370 files that have been uploaded by the Open Access Media Importer this month, bringing the total to over 15,300. If you can think of wiki pages where these files could be useful, please put them in there or let us know.

• Brocas-area-processes-the-hierarchical-organization-of-observed-action-Movie2.ogv
• Coarse-Grained-Molecular-Simulation-of-Epidermal-Growth-Factor-Receptor-Protein-Tyrosine-Kinase-pcbi.1003435.s003.ogv
• Astrocytes-differentially-respond-to-inflammatory-autoimmune-insults-and-imbalances-of-neural-2051-5960-1-70-S7.ogv
• Strike-Fast-Strike-Hard-The-Red-Throated-Caracara-Exploits-Absconding-Behavior-of-Social-Wasps-pone.0084114.s009.ogv
• Cell-Cycle-Dependent-Rho-GTPase-Activity-Dynamically-Regulates-Cancer-Cell-Motility-and-Invasion-In-pone.0083629.s017.ogv
• Identifiable-Images-of-Bystanders-Extracted-from-Corneal-Reflections-pone.0083325.s001.ogv
• Optimized-heterologous-transfection-of-viable-adult-organotypic-brain-slices-using-an-enhanced-gene-1756-0500-6-544-S1.ogv
• Desiccation-Tolerance-in-the-Tardigrade-Richtersius-coronifer-Relies-on-Muscle-Mediated-Structural-pone.0085091.s001.ogv
• Mating-Behaviour-in-Laevicaudatan-Clam-Shrimp-(Crustacea-Branchiopoda)-and-Functional-Morphology-of-pone.0084021.s001.ogv
• Real-Time-Magnetic-Resonance-Imaging-(MRI)-during-Active-Wrist-Motion--Initial-Observations-pone.0084004.s003.ogv
• Environmental-Influence-on-the-Evolution-of-Morphological-Complexity-in-Machines-pcbi.1003399.s024.ogv
• The-3D-Structure-of-the-Apical-Complex-and-Association-with-the-Flagellar-Apparatus-Revealed-by-pone.0084653.s002.ogv
• Different-Evolutionary-Origins-for-the-Reach-and-the-Grasp-An-Explanation-for-Dual-Visuomotor-67729 Karl Movie2.ogv
• Refractory-Period-Modulates-the-Spatiotemporal-Evolution-of-Cortical-Spreading-Depression-A-pone.0084609.s003.ogv
• Cascading-Failures-in-Spatially-Embedded-Random-Networks-pone.0084563.s005.ogv
• Overlapping-and-divergent-signaling-pathways-for-ARK1-and-AGD1-in-the-control-of-root-hair-polarity-Movie8.ogv
• Contribution-to-the-study-of-acoustic-communication-in-two-Belgian-river-bullheads-(Cottus-rhenanus-1742-9994-10-71-S2.oga
• Remotely-Piloted-Aircraft-Systems-as-a-Rhinoceros-Anti-Poaching-Tool-in-Africa-pone.0083873.s001.ogv
• Stress-and-Strain-Provide-Positional-and-Directional-Cues-in-Development-pcbi.1003410.s010.ogv
• The-Covert-World-of-Fish-Biofluorescence-A-Phylogenetically-Widespread-and-Phenotypically-Variable-pone.0083259.s005.ogv
• Reef-Fidelity-and-Migration-of-Tiger-Sharks-Galeocerdo-cuvier-across-the-Coral-Sea-pone.0083249.s001.ogv
• A-Study-of-Early-Afterdepolarizations-in-a-Model-for-Human-Ventricular-Tissue-pone.0084595.s003.ogv
• Unscreened-Water-Diversion-Pipes-Pose-an-Entrainment-Risk-to-the-Threatened-Green-Sturgeon-pone.0086321.s002.ogv
• Salicylic-Acid-a-Plant-Defense-Hormone-Is-Specifically-Secreted-by-a-Molluscan-Herbivore-pone.0086500.s001.ogv
• Generation-and-Characterization-of-Functional-Cardiomyocytes-Derived-from-Human-T-Cell-Derived-pone.0085645.s002.ogv
• Patterning-the-Cone-Mosaic-Array-in-Zebrafish-Retina-Requires-Specification-of-Ultraviolet-pone.0085325.s008.ogv
• Coactosin-Like-1-Antagonizes-Cofilin-to-Promote-Lamellipodial-Protrusion-at-the-Immune-Synapse-pone.0085090.s008.ogv
• Multi-Modal-Use-of-a-Socially-Directed-Call-in-Bonobos-pone.0084738.s010.ogv
• Computational-Estimates-of-Membrane-Flow-and-Tension-Gradient-in-Motile-Cells-pone.0084524.s012.ogv
• Animal-Borne-Imaging-Reveals-Novel-Insights-into-the-Foraging-Behaviors-and-Diel-Activity-of-a-pone.0083953.s005.ogv

Open Access File of the Day

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

• January 31: Slow-wave sleep and rapid eye movement sleep in ostriches.
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  January 30: a nudibranch slug, Armina neapolitana
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  January 29: Festuca galicicae.
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  January 28: orangutan in Sabangau National Park
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  January 27: A Manta alfredi at a cleaning station.
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  January 26: A Paludiscala caramba shell.
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  January 25: the sole specimen of the extinct snakefly Cantabroraphidia marcanoi
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  January 24: A Pterostichus punctatissimus beetle.
• January 23: 2002-2008 incidence rates of dengue fever in Cambodia
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  January 22: the skink Eutropis multifasciata
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  January 21: the flower Centaurea galicicae
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  January 20: Agujaceratops skeleton
• January 19: the fish Alticus arnoldorum climbing a wall
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  January 18: The beetle Psydrus piceus.
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  January 17: the mantis Apteromantis aptera
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  January 16: fat embolism
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  January 15: A female Eulaema meriana bee attending to a Bertholletia excelsa flower.
• January 14: giant water bug Lethocerus attacks Stone moroko fish
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  January 13: Fossil remains of Crocodylus anthropophagus.
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  January 12: the mushroom Cortinarius bovarius in class Agaricales
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  January 11: Sphodromantis viridis.
• January 10: the mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus on a Lantana sp. flower
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  January 9: the lizard Anolis podocarpus
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  January 8: neuroimaging of a penetrating head injury
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  January 7: Microscopic slide, made in 1953, of the holotype of the flatworm Lethacotyle fijiensis
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  January 6: chalcid wasp of family Mymaridae
• January 5: Trills by the bird Malurus coronatus.
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  January 4: the weed Helichrysum luteoalbum
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  January 3: The moth Synynthedon myopaeformis.
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  January 2: shell of the freshwater snail Leptoxis ampla
• January 1: 3D animation of suction feeding in the fossil turtle Ocepechelon bouyai.

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January 2014

• France report
• Germany report
• Netherlands report
• Sweden report
• Switzerland report
• UK report
• USA report
• Open Access report
• Calendar

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Why no audio?

Daniel, here's a totally random question. Maybe you know the answer, maybe not. Why is it that so few videos for published articles have audio? I can understand if the video is a computer simulation, but a lot of the videos above are of the "nature video" variety. Klortho (talk) 15:03, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

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