Folks,
Even though I know most of cringe when we find a source that is behind a
paywall, I think that we should treat it as marginally better than a
offline source. For those, Wikipedia:Offline sources
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Offline_sources> states
"Wikipedia's reliable sources guideline
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources>
states that articles should be sourced with reliable, third-party,
published sources. *Even though Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia, there
is no distinction between using online versus offline sources."* (Source
emphasis, not mine)
This is what I do for such citations.
1. I add "{{closed access}} " (including that space) before the citation
template.
2. I set the parameter |subscription=yes
3. If there is an OCLC # available, I set the parameter |oclc= so that a
reader can go find the print source in a library.
4. If it is appropriate to include the parameter |issn= along with or
instead of the |oclc= parameter, then I use that.
For some universities, colleges, & libraries, access to some online
database will be free to their students / faculty / staff / patrons, so
there definitely is a value to including to URL or DOI for those cases.
Yours,
Peaceray
--
User:Peaceray
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Mitar <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> This reminds me of ugly practices of proprietary software companies
> giving free software to students so that they are able to learn the
> tools and then later on have to pay. So we will be making links to
> paywalled journals and we will be able to do it for free, but then our
> readers will have to pay to read them? So Wikipedia will provide free
> advertisements for paywalled content? Nicely done, nicely done.
>
> This is not open access. This direct opposite to open access. We
> should not be proud of this.
>
> (Please don't take this as an attack on anybody personally and I think
> The Wikipedia Library Team is doing a great job, but I really feel
> this is a bad deal. And it was sent to the open access mailing list.
> Which this is not.)
>
>
> Mitar
>
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Jake Orlowitz <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi!
> > The Wikipedia Library has new, free research donations available:
> >
> > NEW
> > *DeGruyter: 1000 accounts for English and German-language research, sign
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> science
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> >
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