<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello Daniel,</div><div> </div><div>I have the same issue in relation to references in the open acess e-journal I publish (<a href="http://informationr.net/ir/">http://informationr.net/ir/</a>). 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.</div>
<div> </div><div>Kind regards,</div><div> </div><div>Tom Wilson</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 September 2013 00:15, Daniel Mietchen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daniel.mietchen@googlemail.com" target="_blank">daniel.mietchen@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear all,<br>
<br>
your feedback is invited on a system to signal the openness of<br>
references cited on Wikipedia:<br>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Access/Signalling_OA-ness" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Access/Signalling_OA-ness</a><br>
.<br>
<br>
Millions of references are being cited on Wikipedia, including on<br>
scholarly topics. [1]<br>
The citation typically contains a hyperlink to an online version of<br>
the cited resource, yet many of these are paywalled and thus not<br>
accessible to the vast majority of Wikipedia readers.<br>
<br>
So the above-mentioned proposal has been made to signal the OA-ness of<br>
a cited reference. One of the expected effects of the scheme is to<br>
save readers the disappointing clicks on links leading them to<br>
paywalls. Considering that all Wikipedias combined get over 20 billion<br>
page views per month [2] and e.g. medical topics on the English<br>
Wikipedia still over 200 million views per month [3], there is a lot<br>
of potential to save clicks.<br>
<br>
Another possible effect is that the signaling of the availability of<br>
an OA version might entice some readers to actually click through to<br>
the reference when they otherwise would not, especially after having<br>
hit paywalls in previous attempts.<br>
<br>
Furthermore, such a system might signal to Wikipedia editors if they<br>
can use materials from a particular cited source, e.g. images or video<br>
files. [4]<br>
<br>
Your thoughts on any of these or related issues would be greatly<br>
appreciated. The preferred channel for feedback would be the talk page<br>
of that proposal [5].<br>
<br>
Thanks and cheers,<br>
<br>
Daniel<br>
for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Access" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Access</a><br>
<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="http://opensym.org/wsos2013/proceedings/p0203-ford.pdf" target="_blank">http://opensym.org/wsos2013/proceedings/p0203-ford.pdf</a> found<br>
67,026,537 cited sources on the English Wikipedia as of May 2, 2012.<br>
[2] <a href="http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/" target="_blank">http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/</a><br>
[3] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MED500" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MED500</a><br>
[4] For an overview of the extent to which images and other media from<br>
OA sources are being used across Wikimedia projects, see<br>
<a href="http://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/baglama.php?group=Open+access+%28publishing%29&date=201307" target="_blank">http://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/baglama.php?group=Open+access+%28publishing%29&date=201307</a><br>
.<br>
[5] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Open_Access/Signalling_OA-ness" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Open_Access/Signalling_OA-ness</a><br>
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