On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Melissa Hagemann <[email protected]> wrote: > .. > It would be wonderful if we could find a way for the WMF and OA > communities to more closely collaborate. Aubrey is right in that to a > large extent, OA is not well known outside the library community. Given > the reach of WMF, there seems that there must be a way to try to raise > greater awareness of the materials which are being made available > through OA.
There is an ever-increasing number of Wikipedia articles about journals, and they mention open access in the infobox ;-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proceedings_of_the_National_Academy_of_Sciences http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:AJ > And if there is interest in advocating on this issue, SPARC developed > the Alliance for Taxpayer Access > (http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/action/index.shtml) which represents > universities, libraries, patient advocacy groups, and physicians working > to promote OA. I haven't heard of this before. The website/campaign name begs a lot of questions. "Why tax-payer access only?" "What copyright license allows for tax-payer only redistribution?" ;-) If I understand correctly, they are promoting unrestricted access to tax-payer funded research. Do they explicitly want govt-funded research to be public domain, like US federal works are, and therefore accessible to everyone, in every country? -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
