Sorry no. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia not a forum to further a political goal.
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014, 18:42 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 > up > > on one of two language Wikipedias: > > English signup <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:De_Gruyter> > > German signup <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:De_Gruyter> > > *Fold3: 100 accounts for American history and military archives > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fold3> > > *Scotland's People: 100 accounts for Scottish Genealogy database > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ScotlandsPeople> > > > > EXPANDED > > *British Newspaper Archive: 100+ new accounts for British Newspapers > > archives > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BNA> > > > > OPEN > > *Highbeam: 100+ accounts for newspapers and magazines > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:HighBeam> > > *Questia: 100+ accounts for various aggregated journals and social > science > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Questia> > > *JSTOR: 100+ accounts for journal archives > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:JSTOR> > > > > Accounts are available to ALL global editors with a 1 year old account > and > > 1000 edits. Please notify your local community about the signups. > Signups > > for now are mostly on English Wikipedia, UNLESS you have started a local > > Wikipedia Library branch like we've done on Arabic, Chinese, and > German. To > > get started, please contact Ocaasi at [[m:User:Ocaasi (WMF)]] or > > [email protected] > > > > Thanks! > > > > The Wikipedia Library Team > > <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > OpenAccess mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/openaccess > > > > > > -- > http://mitar.tnode.com/ > https://twitter.com/mitar_m > > _______________________________________________ > Libraries mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries >
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