Dear all, two documents come to mind that address these issues to some extent (bias alert: I was involved in drafting both): (1) the Wikimedia Foundation recently released its Open Access policy (cf. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/18/wikimedia-open-access-policy/ ), and there is no reason why chapters or thematic orgs or other Wikimedia partners should not take inspiration from that and issue a policy on the same or similar terms. (2) the Bouchout Declaration (cf. http://bouchoutdeclaration.org/ ) is an attempt to move an entire research community towards increased openness, and it was in large part driven by museums (18 of 91 signatory organizations so far, as per http://www.bouchoutdeclaration.org/signatories/organizations/ ). While focused on biodiversity research, I think this model might be a good starting point for other research communities to address openness in a more systematic fashion. What about proposing a session on that for https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Wikipedia_Science_Conference ?
Thanks and cheers, d. On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 9:38 PM, Pat Hadley <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > There's been a recent bit of coverage in the UK over the issue of museums > charging researchers for collection access. > > The strongest arguments for free and open access have come from the > Prehistoric Society and can be seen on the Museum's Association Website. > > At York Museums Trust (hosts of my project) they do not charge researchers > and have recently begun insisting that visiting researchers openly licence > any photographs they take of collections items and encouraging them to > pursue open access publishing of the research output (not always possible). > > I was wondering whether the GLAMwiki movement might like to speak on the > issue and encourage GLAMs with which we are working to consider this part of > their openness strategy. > > Research is one of the key ways in which collections are enriched. I for one > am fed up with finding obscure notes on collection databases implying the > existence of research done in the last decade which is now invisible online > and/or has no paper-trail at the museum. > > What do people think? > > Cheers, > > Pat > > -- > Pat Hadley > Yorkshire's open culture brain-for-hire > pathadley.net > @pathadley > > _______________________________________________ > GLAM mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam > _______________________________________________ GLAM mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam
