GLAM/Newsletter/July 2012/Contents/Open Access report

This Month in GLAM – Volume II, Issue VII, July 2012

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Open Access report

Open Access at Wikimania; Year 2 of Wikimedian in Residence on Open Science; Open Access Media Importer tested; WikiProject Medicine goes publishing

By Daniel Mietchen

Open Access at Wikimania

Meiosis I in a crane-fly spermatocyte, one of the test files uploaded by the Open Access Media Importer Bot.

Several Wikimania 2012 talks covered Open Access, Open Science or related issues, including a panel contribution at the GLAM Night Out as well as presentations on the Open Access Media Importer and on the Research Committee's activities.

A number of talks with a strong Open Access component were also given around Wikimania, namely at the National Center for Biotechnology Information, at the Wikimania unconference and (remotely) at a meeting of the Mycological Society of America. See also the Wikimania report in this issue.

Wikimedian in Residence on Open Science goes into second year

The Wikimedian in Residence on Open Science project at the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany has been extended for another year, with continued support from the Open Society Foundations. The focus will remain on increasing the reuse of Open-Access materials on Wikimedia projects, on improving coverage of articles relating to Open Access on the English Wikipedia and on supporting the Wikimedia community in matters of open-access more generally, particularly by way of WikiProject Open Access. In addition to that, the aim is to expand and adapt the concept of WikiProject Open Access to languages other than English - including French, German and Russian - and to projects other than Wikipedia, especially Wikisource and Wikispecies.

Open Access Media Importer tested

A bot request was filed for the Open Access Media Importer to upload files it harvested from the supplementary materials of Commons-compatibly licensed scholarly articles from PubMed Central. A few test uploads were made and the code adjusted accordingly (see report). On a related note, a number of files supplied by the journal ZooKeys has been uploaded by JarektUploadBot as a test for large-scale import of images as supplied by publishers directly, rather than via large databases, from where the Open Access Media Importer harvests its materials.

WikiProject Medicine collaborates with journals

WikiProject Medicine has launched a collaboration with the journal Open Medicine to publish high-quality medical articles from Wikipedia into the journal. The first article in this track is Dengue fever. This complements ongoing efforts with the journal PLoS Computational Biology to publish review articles in such a way that they can continue to evolve.

Open Access File of the Day

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

July 31: Forest elephants in the Mbeli River, Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, Congo.
July 30: A mangrove finch, the rarest of Darwin's finches.
July 29: A phylogeographic image of poison frogs' lineages from South America.
July 28: Electron micrograph showing exaggerated filopodia with club-like shape induced by formin mDia2 in cultured cells
July 27: Over time, selective breeding modifies teosinte's few fruitcases (left) into modern corn's rows of exposed kernels (right).
July 26: Drusilla canaliculata, a rove beetle
July 25: Lateral radiograph of the knee demonstrating ossification in the peritendinous tissues in a patient with osteochondroma.
July 24: Methylococcus capsulatus cultured in the presence of a high concentration of copper.
July 23: Schematic Representation of the Key Structural Features of SIV and HIV-1 Entry into T Cells
July 22: Bruce Alberts, co-author of Molecular Biology of the Cell (textbook).
July 21: Biston betularia caterpillars on birch (left) and willow (right).
July 20: A territorial dispute between two male Astatotilapia burtoni.
July 19: Cast of the lower jaws of the crocodyliform Laganosuchus thaumastos. Scale bar equals 20 cm.
July 18: Selenops kalinago
July 17: Reconstructed feeding posture of an azhdarchid with sagittally aligned limbs.
July 16: Ribbon diagram of human carbonyl reductase 1 in complex with NADPH
July 15: Forest fruits from Barro Colorado Island
July 14: Chocolate-backed kingfisher (Halcyon badia)
July 13: Biological specimen of substantia nigra in Parkinson's disease
July 12: Prehistoric human migration from the Middle East to Neolithic Europe
July 11: Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution's submersible Johnson SeaLink
July 10: Phylogenetic tree of life
July 9: SEM image of trochophore of Haliotis asinina 9 hours post fertilisation.
July 8: Sloggett's Rat
July 7: Artistic representation of Australovenator wintonensis.
July 6: Emergency military hospital during Spanish flu epidemic, Camp Funston, Kansas, United States.
July 5: The inner side of the operculum of Marstonia comalensis. Scale bar: 200 μm.
July 4: The Black crab Gecarcinus ruricola.
July 3: RNAi is a naturally occurring process in which small RNA molecules activate a cellular process that results in the destruction of a specific mRNA.
July 2: Cod in a high arctic lake in Canada. Due to overfishing and other changes Atlantic cod grow to half this size.
July 1: Heavy spotting on corn kernels reveals the activity of the Mutator system