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

This Month in GLAM – Volume II, Issue X, October 2012

Open Access report

Videos from Nobel laureates; Open Access Week; Open Access Wikipedia Challenge; Open Access Media Importer approved

Videos from Nobel laureates

The Nobel Prize winners were announced this month, and at least three of them have published in journals whose Creative Commons Attribution License allows for import into Wikimedia Commons: Brian Kobilka (Chemistry) as well as John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka (who shared the prize for Physiology or Medicine this year).

Running the Open Access Media Importer over these articles brought the following videos onto Wikimedia Commons:

Co-authored by Gurdon:

Co-authored by Yamanaka:

Physics laureate Serge Haroche has 21 papers listed on arXiv, but none of them is under a Wikimedia-compatible license.

Open Access Week

A video by Jorge Cham (of PhD Comics) on the occasion of Open Access Week 2012

The last full week in October each year is Open Access Week - an occasion for librarians, researchers, publishers, journal editors, students and others to engage in discussions around the past, present and future of Open Access and to showcase their related activities.

Some of the highlights from this year include

a guideline "How Open Is It?" has been released by SPARC, PLOS and OASPA that differentiates between different levels of access to scholarly articles, with reusability being an important aspect. Such information could be used to indicate systematically the openness of references cited on Wikimedia pages, as per Template:Open Access.
an announcement by the publisher Institute of Physics to license its freely available journal articles under a Creative Commons Attribution License from next year on, which would make these materials reusable at Wikimedia projects.
Wikipedia entries on Open Access Week have been started in French and Japanese

Open Access Wikipedia Challenge

The Open Access Wikipedia Challenge is an online challenge in the MOOC realm, where accepting users are asked to place Open Access content from Wikimedia Commons into Wikipedia. It’s built as a social lesson in Wikipedia editing requiring no previous experience. The challenge is filleted into 6 phases each with an accompanying YouTube screencast tutorial and mini-challenge totaling 2 hours of instruction. The challenge, hosted on Peer to Peer University, gave users the guided tasks of rating journals for openness, calculating how quickly it took Gangnam Style to get onto Wikipedia, writing Wikitext, categorizing on Commons with Hot Cat, and embedding media into Wikipedia.

Found a new home at en:Transponder: a bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) worker with a transponder attached to its back.
Found a new home at ta:டாக்சோட்டைடீ: Archer fish shooting at prey.
Found a new home in the taxobox at en:Dendrelaphis caudolineatus.
The barnstar awarded after successful completion of the Open Access Week Challenge.

P2PU’s online platform allows users to track progress, to discuss the challenges, and to offer peer support, which probably makes the OAWC the first MOOC-ified Wikipedia tutorial. A special edition barnstar has been created for those who complete the challenge. Originally, the course was a celebratory measure, part of Wikipedia Loves Libraries and Open Access Week. After 21 netizens joined the course, it was decided to extend the challenge indefinitely. New and expert users are invited to sign up.

The first video associated with a PLOS article, from December 2003.

Open Access Media Importer approved

The Open Access Media Importer continued to be tested and refined throughout the month, leading to its approval on October 29.

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.

Videos

Before you watch a video, consider guessing at the research question addressed in the corresponding scholarly article.

Sound files

Can you guess what these sounds represent?

WikiProject Open Access

Cutting a water droplet using a superhydrophobic knife on superhydrophobic surfaces.

Pattern formation in a computational model of dendrite growth.

The following news from WikiProject Open Access have been posted this month:

October 1: Open Access Files of the Day now have their own category on Commons.
October 5: A video documenting how a water droplet is being cut using a superhydrophobic knive on superhydrophobic surfaces is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It illustrates research originally published in PLOS ONE on September 24. Traffic stats: Main Page, video, Water droplet article, Superhydrophobe article.
October 8: A video documenting pattern formation in a computational model of dendrite growth is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was original published in the supplement of an article in PLOS Computational Biology in 2007 and uploaded by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page, video, Pattern formation article, Dendrite article.

A timelapse video of how muscles, skin, scales and quills are added to a skull cast of the plant-eating dinosaur Heterodontosaurus tucki.

October 9: A video documenting how muscles, skin, scales and quills are added to a skull cast of the plant-eating dinosaur Heterodontosaurus tucki is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It illustrates an article in ZooKeys published earlier this month. Traffic stats: Main Page, video, Heterodontosaurus tucki article.
October 9: Open Access report in the September 2012 issue of This month in GLAM. Traffic stats.

Computer simulation of auxin transport in the meristem of a plant.

October 11: A video of a simulation of auxin transport in a plant's meristem is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originally published in PLOS Computational Biology in 2008 and uploaded by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page, video, Auxin article, Growing tip article, Cell article, Primordium article.

Perceptual switching.

October 16: A video of an illusory motion is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originally published in PLOS ONE in 2008 and uploaded by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page, video, Illusory motion article.

A snake flicking its tongue towards a lure that "smells like prey" to it, as it is coated with parvalbumin.

October 18: A video of a Nerodia fasciata snake flicking its tongue towards a parvalbumin-coated lure that "smells like prey" to it is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originally published in PLOS ONE in June and since uploaded by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page, video, Nerodia fasciata article, Parvalbumin article, Prey article.
October 22: Open Access Week 2012 starts. Some ideas on how to contribute are linked from en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Open Access/Open Access Week.

A magpie turning aggressive in the presence of a mirror.

October 22: A video of a magpie turning aggressive in the presence of a mirror is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originally published in PLOS Biology in 2008 and uploaded by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page, video, Pica pica article, Mirror test article.
October 22: The Wikipedia Challenge goes live on Peer-to-Peer University. See also blog post on the OCLC blog.

A mudskipper vocalizing in the presence of an intruder.

October 23: A video of a mudskipper vocalizing in the presence of an intruder 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 by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page, septemradiatus territorial defense call.ogv video, Mudskipper article, Oscillogram article, Spectrogram article.
October 23: Examples of reusing, revising, remixing and redistributing Open Access materials in the context of Wikimedia projects are being highlighted in a blog post on the PLOS blog on the occasion of Open Access Week.

A bicolor angelfish feeding on Ghost shrimp.

October 24: A 200 fps video of a Bicolor angelfish feeding on Ghost shrimp 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 by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page, video, Bicolor angelfish article, Acetes article, Frame rate article.

MRI scan of the sea urchin Psammechinus miliaris.

October 25: A video showing a MRI scan of the sea urchin Psammechinus miliaris 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 by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page, video, MRI article, Psammechinus miliaris article.
October 29: The Bot request for the Open Access Media Importer has been approved. The bot will now routinely spider the biomedical literature deposited in PubMed Central for articles that are licensed compatibly with reuse on Wikimedia Commons and that have audio or video files in their supplementary materials. The videos featured under under Media of the Day on Commons this month have all been uploaded during the test phase of the bot.

An Aedes aegypti mosquito trying in vain to penetrate skin with its proboscis. Due to Wolbachia infection, it fails.

October 30: A video of an Aedes aegypti mosquito infected with Wolbachia pipientis unsuccessfully trying to penetrate skin is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originally published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases in 2009 and uploaded to Commons by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page, video, Aedes aegypti article, Wolbachia pipientis article.

October 30: The article Pegomastax is featured on the Main Page of the German Wikipedia as part of a Halloween special of Did You Know. The formal description of this heterodontosaur genus was published in ZooKeys earlier this month. Traffic stats: Main Page, image, Pegomastax article.
October 30: Article alerts for pages in Category:WikiProject Open Access articles are now available via a dedicated subpage of WikiProject Open Access, which is linked from the header of the project's landing page.

Open Access File of the Day

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

October 31: The Insular cortex (Japanese version).
October 30: The Neanderthal skull La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1.
October 29: A Varanus timorensis from Loré, Lautém District, East Timor.
October 28: Skeletal reconstruction (top) and inferred body outline (bottom) of the Cretaceous lizard Platecarpus.
October 27: map of European genetic structure based on single-nucleotide polymorphism analysis
October 26: Comparison of Nautilus capture rates with trapping depth
October 25: A male Labeotropheus fuelleborni from Lake Malawi.
October 24: Agdistis linnaei
October 23: Interneuron-radial glial interactions in the developing cerebral cortex.
October 22: drip irrigation on loamy soil
October 21: Lectotype of Elimia cahawbensis.
October 20: A Lamprolepis smaragdina skink.
October 19: Nylanderia pubens, the crazy Rasberry ant
October 18: Basal body of T3SS needle complex. The black line indicates 10 nanometers.
October 17: 3D reconstruction of the general anatomy of the small marine slug Pseudunela cornuta, based on histological sections.
October 16: map of where to find Amphicyclotulus in Dominica
October 15: comparison of furcula of (A) a dinosaur and (B) a goose
October 14: The wonder gecko Teratoscincus scincus.
October 13: A Morgan horse with silver rather than black pigments, due to the silver dapple gene.
October 12: booms by Cercopithecus hamlyni
October 11: Ipsa childreni, the charismatic cowrie
October 10: Combat between two forked fungus beetle (Bolitotherus cornutus) males.
October 9: A timelapse video of how muscles, skin, scales and quills are added to a skull cast of Heterodontosaurus tucki
October 8: Life restorations of Darwinius masillae
October 7: Melanargia arge.
October 6: Mary F. Lyon, discoverer of X-chromosome inactivation.
October 5: Drawing of the right valve external view of Pisidium moitessierianum
October 4: growth depictions for Archaeopteryx
October 3: MRI scan of an osteochondroma.
October 2: Inside krill one can see (A) pregnancy (B) phytoplankton
October 1: A Somali wild ass, Equus africanus somaliensis.