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

This Month in GLAM – Volume III, Issue III, March 2013

Open Access report

Topic Pages; Open Access on Wikispecies

PLOS Computational Biology Topic Pages

This month saw the publication of two "Topic Page" articles in the journal PLOS Computational Biology that live on as articles on the English Wikipedia: Evolving digital ecological networks as well as Viral phylodynamics. The journal now features banner ads for the series, and a blog post gave an overview of the four articles published this way so far. A number of others are being drafted, and suggestions for further topics are welcome.

Open Access materials on Wikispecies

Of the over 80,000 uses of files from the Commons category Open access (publishing) across Wikimedia projects, more than 1000 now occur on Wikispecies. The German and French Wikipedias had reached that milestone some weeks earlier but have since been overtaken by Wikispecies by that measure.

Open Access Media Importer

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.

Open Access File of the Day

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

March 31: Sir Edwin Southern, inventor of the Southern blot.
March 30: The life cycle of the parasitic nematode Onchocerca volvulus, which causes river blindness.
March 29: Snoring under severe sleep apnea
March 28:T Cell differentiation
March 27: increasing reelin changes the morphology of migrating neurons
March 26: cone of female Ephedra californica
March 25: Life restoration of Iguanacolossus fortis.
March 24: Lily Shoals elimia
March 23: The beetle Phrypeus rickseckeri.
March 22: Pieter Bleeker (b. 1819), Dutch ichthyologist
March 21: Images of love darts made by scanning electron microscopy
March 20: The synaptonemal complex underlying bivalent formation during meiosis.
March 19: The song of the owl Otus jolandae
March 18: The moth Panthea acronyctoides.
March 17: Bone scintigraphy of a patient with psoriatic arthritis in the left elbow.
March 16: The Termitotrox cupido holotype.
March 15: Cercopithecus lomamiensis.
March 14: Phylogenetic tree for Heterobranchia
March 13: Endocarditis ultrasound
March 12: Malayatelura rubbing an ant worker
March 11: The fern Dryopteris macropholis.
March 10: Escherichia coli life cycle.
March 9: A Pantopsalis listeri harvestman.
March 8: Single beating cell at day 5 after VCAM-1 sorting
March 7: The result of a tonsillectomy.
March 6: A Prostylotermes termite.
March 5: Fruitbodies of Boletopsis nothofagi
March 4: Astronaut Charles Duke with a hammer on the moon
March 3: A Soay sheep.
March 2: In progeria patients, the cell nucleus has dramatically aberrant morphology (bottom, right) rather than the uniform shape typically found in healthy individuals (top, right).
March 1: The snail Opisthostoma everettii.