[BOAI] Re: Signalling the openness of references cited on Wikipedia

[Prof. T.D. Wilson]

Hello Daniel,

I have the same issue in relation to references in the open acess e-journal
I publish (http://informationr.net/ir/). My solution is to provide links
only to open sources and also to ask authors to archive such sources to
WebCite - you'll see this in most of the papers in recent volumes on the
site.  Archiving to WebCite is absolutely essential, since the open sources
have limited lifetimes - one calculation suggests a half-life of only 2.5
years - arciving to WebCite means that the item should be available more or
less indefinitely, or at least as long as WebCite continues to function.

Kind regards,

Tom Wilson


On 4 September 2013 00:15, Daniel Mietchen
<daniel.mietchen at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> your feedback is invited on a system to signal the openness of
> references cited on Wikipedia:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Access/Signalling_OA-ness
> .
>
> Millions of references are being cited on Wikipedia, including on
> scholarly topics. [1]
> The citation typically contains a hyperlink to an online version of
> the cited resource, yet many of these are paywalled and thus not
> accessible to the vast majority of Wikipedia readers.
>
> So the above-mentioned proposal has been made to signal the OA-ness of
> a cited reference. One of the expected effects of the scheme is to
> save readers the disappointing clicks on links leading them to
> paywalls. Considering that all Wikipedias combined get over 20 billion
> page views per month [2] and e.g. medical topics on the English
> Wikipedia still over 200 million views per month [3], there is a lot
> of potential to save clicks.
>
> Another possible effect is that the signaling of the availability of
> an OA version might entice some readers to actually click through to
> the reference when they otherwise would not, especially after having
> hit paywalls in previous attempts.
>
> Furthermore, such a system might signal to Wikipedia editors if they
> can use materials from a particular cited source, e.g. images or video
> files. [4]
>
> Your thoughts on any of these or related issues would be greatly
> appreciated. The preferred channel for feedback would be the talk page
> of that proposal [5].
>
> Thanks and cheers,
>
> Daniel
> for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Access
>
>
> [1] http://opensym.org/wsos2013/proceedings/p0203-ford.pdf found
> 67,026,537 cited sources on the English Wikipedia as of May 2, 2012.
> [2] http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/
> [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MED500
> [4] For an overview of the extent to which images and other media from
> OA sources are being used across Wikimedia projects, see
>
> http://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/baglama.php?group=Open+access+%28publishing%29&date=201307
> .
> [5]
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Open_Access/Signalling_OA-ness
>
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