2011/3/8 Tomasz Ganicz <polime...@gmail.com> > 2011/3/8 Juergen Fenn <juergen.f...@gmx.de>: > > > > > > Am 08.03.11 20:46, schrieb Samuel Klein: > >> Melissa -- absolutely! I don't know the real stats, but I think we > >> cite OA jornals far more than any others in Wikipedia for this reason. > > > > Which is certainly a rather bad idea because what always counts first > > must be the quality of content, not the license of a citation or whether > > its available on-line or printed only. > > > > Yes.. as well as there are areas of research for which there is no OER > journals at all. Anyway - I don't think if WMF could afford providing > access to scientific journals in aby scalable way. For example top > chemistry journals published by American Chemical Society can be > subscribed by institution - but in contract there is a limitation to a > selected range of IP numbers and maximum download per year. The cost > of intitutional subscription is around 2000 USD per journal. They > provide also indvidual subscription but only to the their members. It > is relatively easy to become an ACS member - but WMF cannot help too > much with this. Maybe it would be more clever to grant access to the > top scientific databases - for example for most active editors > -leading wikiprojects... > > AFAIK, these publishers make the pricing upon the number of scholars/researchers/students of a certain university/corporation: I bet they would make us unbearable fees (in fact the potential users are hundred thousands, if not millions).
> > > -- > Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz > http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek > http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ > http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
