That's a great point Sydney! I recently came across this issue when submitting an article to an academic journal that subscribes to an open access network and yet the editors were surprised when I asked them to publish the article under a Creative Commons license.
I'll see how I can address this point in the blog post. :) On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Sydney Poore <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Yana, > > Thanks for taking on this important topic. > > I think is really important to emphasis the the unrestricted use aspect of > open access. I see freely available to read confused with true open access. > > In my conversations with people who are in health care research, I find > that today they are mostly all in favor of open access in the sense it is > available for free. Even eager to see it happen for their own research. > > But it being published with in way that gives permission for unrestricted > reuse is not seen as being nearly as important. > > Often, I think it is an oversight and they have not completely thought > through the meaning of open access when it is presented to them as only > being freely available to read. > > So, it would be good to emphasis why being able to freely reuse is an > important part of true open access. And not let the meaning of the term get > diluted by publishers who will give quick access to view articles if > researcher pay a premium for it, but still want to control the material > long tern. > > Hope that makes sense. :-) > > Sydney Poore > User:FloNight > Wikipedian in Residence > at Cochrane Collaboration > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 8:52 PM, Yana Welinder <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> We are doing a guest blog post on open access for EFF next week. I would >> very much appreciate your thoughts on it and in particular the section that >> discusses WikiProject Open Access. >> >> Best, >> Yana >> >> Free as in Open Access and Wikipedia >> >> Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia sites are closely connected to open >> access ideals of making scholarship freely available and reusable. >> Consistent with these ideals, the Wikimedia sites make information >> available to internet users around the world free of charge in hundreds of >> languages. Wikimedia content can also be reused under its free licenses. >> The content is enriched by citations to open access scholarship, and the >> Wikimedia sites play a unique role in making academic learning easily >> available to the world. As the next generation of scholars embraces open >> access principles to become a true Generation Open >> <http://youtu.be/8hxKH3-42U0>, we will move closer to "a world in which >> every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge >> <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Vision>." >> >> To write and edit Wikipedia, contributors need to access high quality >> independent sources. Unfortunately, paywalls and copyright restrictions >> often prevent the use of academic journals to write Wikipedia articles and >> enrich them with citations. >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources> Citations are >> particularly important to allow readers to verify Wikipedia articles and >> learn more about the topic from the underlying sources. Given the >> importance of open access to Wikipedia, the Wikimedia community of >> contributors has set up >> <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/01/15/wikimedia-and-open-access/> a >> WikiProject >> Open Access >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Access> to >> improve open access-related articles on Wikipedia and create an Open >> Access Policy >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Committee/Areas_of_interest/Open-access_policy> >> for research projects with the support >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Committee/Areas_of_interest/Significant_support> >> of the Wikimedia Foundation. >> >> Great potential lies in the reciprocal relationship between the open >> access scholarship that enriches Wikipedia and Wikipedia’s promotion of >> primary sources. As a secondary source, Wikipedia does not publish >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research> ideas or >> facts that are not supported by reliable and published sources >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Sources>. >> Wikipedia has tremendous power as a platform for relaying the outcomes >> of academic study >> <http://columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2014/10/13/sharing-wikipedia> by >> leading over 400 million monthly visitors >> <http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/> to underlying scholarship cited in >> articles. Just as a traditional encyclopedia would, Wikipedia can make the >> underlying research easier to find. But unlike a traditional encyclopedia, >> it provides free access and free reuse to all. In that sense, Wikipedia is >> an ideal secondary source for open access research. >> >> In light of this, we are thrilled to see Generation Open blooming. The >> Digital >> Commons Network <http://network.bepress.com/> now boasts 1,109,355 works >> from 358 institutions. The Directory of Open Access Journals >> <http://doaj.org/> further has over 10,035 journals from 135 countries. >> Esteemed law journals such as the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology >> <http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/>, Berkeley Technology Law Journal >> <http://btlj.org/>, and Michigan Law Review >> <http://www.michiganlawreview.org/> subscribe to the Open Access Law >> Program <https://creativecommons.org/press-releases/entry/5464>, which >> encourages them to archive their articles under open access principles. >> >> Wikipedians are also contributing to the body of published open access >> scholarship. Earlier this month, four Wikipedians published an article >> on Dengue fever <http://www.openmedicine.ca/article/viewFile/562/564> in Open >> Medicine <http://www.openmedicine.ca/> (an open access and peer-reviewed >> journal) based on a Wikipedia article >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengue_fever#External_links>that was >> collaboratively >> edited >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dengue_fever&offset=&limit=500&action=history> >> by 1,369 volunteers and bots. In addition to providing an open access >> scholarly article on this important topic, this publication validated that >> Wikipedia's editorial process can produce high quality content outside >> traditional academia. >> >> Placing scholarship behind paywalls has the effect of relegating new >> advances in human knowledge to small academic communities. 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