GLAM/Newsletter/October 2014/Contents/Open Access report
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Open Access Week; peer-reviewed OA journal publishes Wikipedia article
OA journal publishes Wikipedia article
The article Dengue fever from the English Wikipedia has successfully passed scientific peer review at the open-access journal Open Medicine, which led to an article in the journal, published on October 2 and accompanied by an editorial. While multiple Wikipedia pages have been based largely or even entirely on peer-reviewed publications, this Dengue fever article marks the first time that the information flew in the other direction. A second one is unlikely to follow anytime soon, however, as the journal has since ceased operation.
Open Access Week
The last full week of October is Open Access Week, a week of activities around the globe focusing on Open access to the scholarly literature. Amongst the activities with a Wikimedia component were
- a guest post on the blog of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
- a video embedded in that blog post, explaining the Open Access Signalling project
- editathons at Washington State University, Montana State University, Brown University
- a code sprint by the Open Access Signalling project
- a Webinar by the JATS 4 Reuse workgroup on improving the reusability of publications marked up in JATS, the XML format in use at the repository PubMed Central
- a workshop on reference management across Wikimedia platforms at Mozilla Festival.
Besides, a new version of the Open Access Spectrum (OAS) "HowOpenIsIt?" has been released, and a citation-focused hackathon took place at PLOS, during which an outline has been drafted for how metadata for scholarly articles can be represented at Wikidata.
Open Access Media Importer
The following represents a selection of the ca. 200 files that have been uploaded by the Open Access Media Importer this month, bringing the total to about 17,700. If you can think of wiki pages where these files could be useful, please put them in there or let us know.
