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

This Month in GLAM – Volume II, Issue VI, June 2012

Open Access report

Obama petition; SpringerImages; World Open Educational Resources Congress; Wikipedia Academy; Wikipedia Cite-o-meter

Open Access in a wider context

The Wikimedia-endorsed Access2Research petition to U.S. president Obama reached its goal of 25,000 signatures on June 3, closing at over 27,000 after four weeks on June 19.

On June 11, the Signpost ran a story detailing how freely licensed images had been misappropriated by SpringerImages. These included images from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons as well as from Open-Access sources like PLoS journals. The company has since apologized and offered to collaborate with the Creative Commons and Wikimedia communities in order to avoid such problems in the future. Options for further collaboration are being discussed.

From June 20-22, the World Open Educational Resources Congress took place in Paris, featuring a talk on how Open Access materials and Open Educational Resources could mutually benefit each other, using Wikimedia projects as examples. Furthermore, the Wikipedia:WikiProject Education/Open education project attended with a poster.

On June 30, a Science Communication Panel took place at Wikipedia Academy, discussing how Open Science affects science communication, both within and beyond the scientific community.

Wikipedia Cite-o-meter

During the Berlin Hackathon, the records of the Cite-o-meter (which ranks publishers by number of Wikipedia pages citing their materials) have been updated for all CrossRef-registered DOI prefixes, a few bugs have been fixed and a decision was made to add a database layer.

WikiProject Open Access

June 26: PeerJ is featured under WP:DYK on the Main Page of the English Wikipedia. Traffic stats.
June 22: A video from the supplementary materials of a PLoS ONE article on the properties of phytotelmata in pitcher plants is Media of the day on Wikimedia Commons today (traffic stats). It shows how a fly falls into water and escapes.
June 19: PeerJ was nominated for WP:DYK. Traffic stats.
June 12: Reuse of freely licensed images from Open-Access articles and Wikimedia projects is covered in the Signpost. Traffic stats.
June 7: The results from an article in PLoS ONE on pendulum-like escape behaviour in the cockroach Periplaneta americana and the house gecko Hemidactylus platyurus are being featured (first with image, then with video) on the main page of the Hebrew Wikipedia. See also the other videos accompanying the paper.
June 2: Open Access report in the May 2012 issue of This month in GLAM. Traffic stats.
June 2: Access2Research is featured under WP:DYK on the Main Page of the English Wikipedia. Traffic stats.

Open Access File of the Day

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

June 30: Map showing Japanese archipelago, Sea of Japan and surrounding part of continental East Asia in Middle Pliocene to Late Pliocene
June 29: Kidney biopsy (light microscopy) in which the purple stain is on the podocytes
June 28: phenotypes of wild-type (top) and PAX6 ortholog mutations (bottom) in human, mouse, zebrafish, and fly
June 27: Scanning electron micrographs showing morphological variation of bdelloid rotifers and their jaws.
June 26: This model of Phineas Gage's skull illustrates the approximate path of the tamping iron that produced his famous injury.
June 25: An African Black Oystercatcher chick with the numbered colour rings that are used to follow its survival and migratory movements over several years.
June 24: A female Selenops lindborgi spider with its egg sac.
June 23: Cross-Linked DNA Extracted from 4,000-Year-Old Liver of an Ancient Egyptian priest called Nekht-Ankh.
June 22: A T2-weighted sagittal MRI scan, from a patient with Arnold–Chiari malformation symptomatology, demonstrating tonsillar herniation
June 21: Selection for social signalling drives the evolution of chameleon colour change.
June 20: This figure depicts one view of the history of human evolution based on fossil data.
June 19: Access2Research founders Heather Joseph, John Wilbanks, Michael W. Carroll and Mike Rossner after meeting at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
June 18: In an effort to reduce corn stem-borer infestations, corporate and public researchers partner to develop local genetically modified maize varieties suitable for Kenya.
June 17: A fly falling into water and escaping.
June 16: Forest of synthetic pyramidal dendrites grown using Cajal's laws of neuronal branching.
June 15: Biologist Seymour Benzer with a model of Drosophila melanogaster.
June 14: An assassin bug Triatoma dimidiata, potential vector of Chagas disease.
June 13: Sampling sites of the Global Ocean Sampling Expedition.
June 12: A 12 million-year old upper jaw of the Sthenictis campestris, a member of the weasel family
June 11: The Dorsal habitus of Oxypoda stanleyi, a rove beetle from Stanley Park. Scale bar: 1 mm.
June 10: A Cretaceous snake Sanajeh indicus feeding on hatchling sauropod dinosaurs.
June 9: A frog with chytridiomycosis.
June 8: Modified Gömöri trichrome stain showing several ragged red fibers in MELAS syndrome.
June 7: A Hemidactylus platyurus gecko displaying rapid inversion.
June 6: The butterfly Coenonympha oedippus.
June 5: Blue Whale calls in the presence of mid-frequency active sonar.
June 4: The freshwater gastropod Acochlidium fijiiensis.
June 3: The sea slug Aeolidiella stephanieae.
June 2: The Subventricular zone of a human brain.
June 1: Silhouette of Australovenator wintonensis showing the material of the holotype. Scale bar: probably 1m.