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best, -- Phoebe On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Jacob Orlowitz <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi folks, > > I just want to notify you about an Individual Engagement Grant I have > proposed about furthering a project called The Wikipedia Library. The idea > is simple: to arrange for the community's most active and experienced > editors to have free, full, and convenient access to the best available > academic, scholarly, and subject-specific resources through a single > website. To date, the community has arranged four partnerships with > library partners (Credo, HighBeam, Questia, and JSTOR). Individually > purchased, that account access would have been several hundreds of > thousands of dollars. Hopefully we can increase that total, our partners, > and continue to improve the management of the program with a dedicated > grant: > > You can comment on the proposal here: > * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/The_Wikipedia_Library > > The prior Fellowship proposal with community endorsements is here: > * > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships/Project_Ideas/The_Wikipedia_Library > > The ongoing project management page is here: > * http://enwp.org/WP:TWL > > Should this project be accepted for a grant (or even if it's not), I > definitely would like your help in thinking about issues like: > * What are the highest priority resources to get first? > * How can we leverage our collective contacts in the research and > publishing community? > * How would we organize a successful program with tens or hundreds of > participating sites/journals? > * What technical infrastructure could support a website with access to > that many sources (e.g. SAML) > > I'd love to continue this conversation. > > Best, > > Jake Orlowitz > Wikipedia: Ocaasi <http://enwp.org/User:Ocaasi> > Email: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Skype: jorlowitz > > > _______________________________________________ > Libraries mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries > > -- * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers <at> gmail.com *
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