GLAM/Newsletter/October 2013/Contents/Open Access report
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Open Access Week, Accelerating Science Award
Open Access Week
Following a recent tradition, the last full week in October is celebrated as Open Access Week (cf. roundup of global activities this year). Wikimedians were involved in multiple fashions online, offline and during edit-a-thons and other meetups. The event is also reflected in the sections below.
WikiProject Open
Thematic work around open knowledge on the English Wikipedia was recently restructured through the launch of WikiProject Open. It is closely integrated with WikiProject Open Access and covers open topics more broadly, e.g. Open Educational Resources. On the occasion of Open Access Week (see above), it held a collaboration of the week, focusing on the articles Open Access Week and Creative Commons license.
Featured content
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Courtship song of a male parasitic wasp, Cotesia congregata. Wikimedia Commons Media of the Day on October 2.
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A pelagic thresher shark using tail slaps while hunting sardines. Wikimedia Commons Media of the Day on October 5.
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3D reconstruction of the head of the polychaete Lumbrineris latreilli on the basis of a micro-CT scan. Wikimedia Commons Media of the Day on October 7.
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Egg grooming behaviour in the termite Reticulitermes speratus. Wikimedia Commons Media of the Day on October 10.
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3D animation of the skull of a young Kemp's ridley sea turtle, based on µCT data. Wikimedia Commons Media of the Day on October 13.
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A crash simulation featuring female passengers with a low (left) and high (right) body mass index. Wikimedia Commons Media of the Day on October 15.
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Fetus in fetu — Did you know on the Italian Wikipedia on October 15. -
A contest between males of the jumping spider Cosmophasis umbratica. Wikimedia Commons Media of the Day on October 17.
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A spider water beetle — Did you know on the English Wikipedia on October 18. -
Jack Andraka, the 16-year-old inventor of a breakthrough cancer diagnostic and winner of the 2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, talks with Francis S. Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health of the United States, about open access to the research literature. Wikimedia Commons Media of the Day on October 21.
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Macromolecular juggling by enzymes, accompanied by music after Ernst Toch. Wikimedia Commons Media of the Day on October 22.
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A fish – the pacific leaping blenny – climbing up a vertical surface of plexiglas. Wikimedia Commons Media of the Day on October 23.
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Song of the owl Otus jolandae from Lombok, Indonesia. Wikimedia Commons Media of the Day on October 24.
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Headbutting between males of the Green humphead parrotfish. Wikimedia Commons Media of the Day on October 25.
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A hamster walking. Wikimedia Commons Media of the Day on October 27.
Stats
In early November, GLAMorous reported for the Commons category Open access (publishing) that it had 21,776 files, of which 5,922 are used a total of 65,411 times across 297 Wikimedia projects.
For this category, the latest BaGLAMa stats are available for September and indicate 41,023,097 views of 56,857 mainspace pages that were using materials from the category across 208 Wikimedia projects. About 40% of these views are due to files that have been featured as Open Access File of the Day, and around 7% due to files uploaded by the Open Access Media Importer.
Open Access Media Importer
The following represents a selection of the 354 files that have been uploaded by the Open Access Media Importer this month, bringing the total to over 14,300. 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:
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October 30: Aptostichus stephencolberti, a trapdoor spider -
October 29: Ridleyandra chuana, a flower in order Lamiales -
October 28: translocation of protoplasm in the fungus Sordaria fimicola
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October 27: eggs of the snail Pomacea canaliculata -
October 26: Wintonotitan wattsi. -
October 25: Xenodon merremii. -
October 24: Crocidura sapaensis, a shrew -
October 23: Jack Andraka talks about open access
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October 21: cranial cast of the dinosaur Alioramus altai -
October 20: the water snake Cerberus rynchops -
October 19: the jewel beetle Agrilus crepuscularis -
October 18: ultrastructure of hemidesmosomes in mice -
October 17: young zebra finch -
October 16: Pelophila borealis. -
October 15: vocalizations of Pheucticus melanocephalus
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October 14: Helcogramma fuscipectoris, a fish -
October 13: Litoria everetti. -
October 12: the environment of thymocytes -
October 11: MRI showing retinoblastoma -
October 10: dance as sexual selection strategy in Cosmophasis umbratica males
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October 9: Pringleophaga marioni, a subantarctic moth -
October 8: Radiographic comparison of middle Eocene primate fossils from Germany -
October 7: Selenops arikok, a spider -
October 6: Cell biologist James Alexander Thomson. -
October 5: Atlanta brunnea, a sea snail -
October 4: A female Illacme plenipes with 618 legs. -
October 3: The moth Enargia paleacea. -
October 2: The demosponge Tethya wilhelma responds to caffeine.
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October 1: Drymaeus laticinctus, a land snail
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