[GOAL] Open Letter(s) on Open Access project plan released as a Working Paper.

Fri Oct 5 08:56:04 BST 2018

John,
Good idea.
Wikimedia Foundation has funded us in ContentMine with ScienceSource - a
project to create the most valuable annotated validated papers to support
Wikipedia MEDRS editors. We are collecting a Focus list which will result
in 30,000 articles. To process them they have to be Open Access. Many
other  valuable papers will be behind paywalls but could be shared by their
authors.
I would hope that many authors would wish their work to be made available
to Wikimedia.

P.

On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 8:34 AM John G. Dove <johngdove at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Advocates for Open Access,
>
>
> Any of you that I've met at a conference these past three years may have
> had the experience of my chewing your ear off about the idea of using articles
> cited in newly published works as a way to systematically message authors
> of the cited articles about how they could better share their works [aka
> 'green path'].  A comment from Erin McKean on my first blog post on this
> topic back in June of 2015 proposed the creation of a public list of the
> most-cited articles in Wikipedia that could have been shared (as evidenced
> in sherpa/romeo) but had not been---the idea was to shine a public-light to
> an audience of authors about effective sharing of their scholarly works.
>
> Earlier this summer a PhD student from University of Chicago, Ingrid
> Becker, approached me and Sam Klein (of Wikipedia fame, associate of the
> Berkman Klein Center on the Internet and Society at Harvard, and a
> co-founder of Pattern Labs) to see if we would be willing to advise her on
> a project that we ended up calling "Open Letter(s) on Open Access".  The
> idea was to take this suggestion about 'most-cited sources in Wikipedia'
> and generalize it to "any list of sources that for some audience of
> academics a strong sentiment might exist that these sources ought to be
> openly accessible to the world."   Ingrid obtained a "Graduate Global
> Impact" grant to be the project lead on this project.  And it fit the
> mission of Pattern Labs which is to support projects which can quickly
> become a model that an expanding group of people could implement in order
> to accelerate some important social change.
>
> Ingrid shared our project plan yesterday on ScholComm.  Soon she will
> share some "working draft" versions of a couple of the Open Letters.  We
> are eager to receive feedback and suggestions, as well as indications that
> others could see doing similar types of communications.  We found the
> process of coming up with a good half-dozen potential examples of lists to
> analyze was really easy. We hope this means that others will be easily able
> to pick different, even better examples of lists to provide commentary on.
> We developed a process for doing the analysis which we are sure can be
> improved--but it allowed us to quickly complete the first phase of this
> project without undertaking any particular technical risks.
>
> Particularly helpful to us was working out how the Open Access Button
> could provide us with a way to communicate with authors of articles whose
> sharing choices we are commenting on in our Open Letters. This greatly
> simplified a whole number of issues we'd otherwise have to have designed
> for ourselves and lived up to a principle we wanted to follow--to make a
> reasonable effort to reach out to authors personally before we comment on
> their sharing strategies publicly.
>
> Our aim in this project is, of course, that communications to academics
> about their sharing choices is increased significantly in quantity and
> effectiveness.
>
> To comment on this project, please look at the project plan linked to in
> Ingrid Becker's message below and add your comments there.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> John Dove
>
> _________________
> John G. Dove, personal e-mail
> JohnGDove at gmail.com
>
> PS: Want to see what I call an "Open Web Smart-Link"? Check out my article
> in *Learned Publishing:* "Full Discovery: What is the publisher's role?".
> Since it was one of the dozen most-downloaded articles in *Learned
> Publishing*, Wiley provided me with a link to a version that can be read
> without hitting the usual paywall: http://rdcu.be/QFCO.
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Ingrid Becker <scholcomm at lists.ala.org>
> Date: Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 4:04 PM
> Subject: [SCHOLCOMM] Grad Student Project - Open Letter(s) on Open Access
> To: <scholcomm at lists.ala.org>
>
>
> Dear All,
>
>
> I’m a doctoral candidate in the English Department at the University of
> Chicago. I’m writing to share the first fruits of a summer project, for
> which I received funding from a UChicago Graduate Global Impact grant. “Open
> Letter(s) on Open Access,” conceived in tandem with OA Advocate John Dove
> and Pattern Labs co-founder Sam Klein, aims to raise awareness about Open
> Access among academics and encourage authors to take advantage of the
> sustainable OA channels available to them.
>
>
> As the gesture towards the plural in the project title indicates, our work
> is designed as a pilot that lays out processes for similar research and
> outreach that we invite interested people to adopt, adapt, appropriate, and
> re-apply. In a similar spirit of continual improvement, we hope to obtain
> as much feedback as possible from scholarly communications experts on what
> we’ve done so far.
>
>
> We invite you to take a look at a copy of our project plan--available here
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1unWpSj2ZqBbbGzgOT3ELu26hqDypKtcp_bh_slqfCQA/edit?usp=sharing>--in
> the case that it’s useful for any of your own initiatives. And if you want
> to offer any kind of comments, inputs, and insights, we’d appreciate it!
> Just as the complex digital world of scholarship, publication, and
> distribution is constantly shifting, this plan is always in-progress.
>
>
> Finally, we’ll soon be releasing our first letter on Alzheimer’s research
> and taking funded OA to the next level. Keep an eye out for #OALetters on
> twitter to see more.
>
>
> If you have any other inquiries, feel free to email myself and the project
> team at oloa at googlegroups.com.
>
>
> Thanks & Best,
>
>
> Ingrid
>
>
> --
> Ingrid Becker
> Doctoral Candidate
> Department of English Language and Literature
> University of Chicago
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