Excellent initiative, Federico. I am wondering if this could be partly automated to make it scale (detect the citation of a new DOI > extract the author contact email > check if a preprint is available > if not, trigger an email to the author).
In the future, a social media bot will simultaneously (publicly) notify the author, if the handle can identified and is reliably stored in Wikidata. On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 11:39 PM, James Heilman <[email protected]> wrote: > Agree it is a great initiative. Many authors retain the rights to host a > version of their paper via their own website or institution. This is > improving "free access" rather than changing the underlying license to > "open access". > > James > > On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 1:54 AM, Jake Orlowitz <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Federico, >> >> This is a really neat initiative and brings together a lot of thinking >> around oa repositories, indexes, apis, citation practices, and author >> engagement. >> >> I have one request if you don't mind... >> >> *Could you share the email text that you're using to send to authors with >> this group?* >> >> I am not concerned if publishers don't like this project, but I wouldn't >> want them to be upset* just because* language gave them a >> misunderstanding about how Wikipedia treats copyright (which is we treat it >> appropriately, and share freely whenever possible). >> >> Thank you, >> Jake Orlowitz >> Wikipedia Library >> >> On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 9:15 AM John G. Dove <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Federico, >>> This is great news! You are showing the way. I look forward to many >>> more such initiatives, not just in Wikipedia, but anywhere people look for >>> access to knowledge. >>> The "brand" of Wikipedia is all about having "every single human >>> being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge". There are many >>> organizations, commercial and otherwise, that espouse a commitment to >>> "open". Finally you (and the shoulders you are standing on) are showing how >>> we can systematically message authors to share. This has the real >>> possibility of breaking the monopoly control and pricing of access to >>> knowledge. >>> >>> Good job. >>> >>> -john dove >>> >>> >>> >>> _________________ >>> John G. Dove, personal e-mail >>> [email protected] >>> >>> Check out my latest post on LinkedIn: Not all Open Content is fully >>> Discoverable >>> <https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/all-open-content-discoverable-john-dove?> >>> >>> On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 4:49 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> As a reminder of the link I sent earlier: >>>> >>>> Federico Leva (Nemo), 28/05/2017 12:15: >>>> >>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:The_Wikipedia_Library# >>>>> Poke_authors_via_Dissemin >>>>> >>>> This is going on, thanks to oaDOI/Dissemin improvements and some >>>> committed Wikimedia Italia members. >>>> Updates will continue in >>>> https://github.com/dissemin/dissemin/issues/251 >>>> >>>> If you want to help, apart from suggestions on messaging improvements, >>>> here are some issues I found with the various OAI-PMH endpoints and >>>> metadata crawlers: >>>> https://github.com/dissemin/dissemin/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&; >>>> q=False%20is%3Aissue%20is%3Aopen%20 >>>> https://github.com/Impactstory/oadoi/issues >>>> >>>> Especially Wiley has a really poor coverage in their OAI-PMH endpoint >>>> it seems. >>>> >>>> Nemo >>>> >>> >>> > > > -- > James Heilman > MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian > > The Wikipedia Open Textbook of Medicine > -- *Dario Taraborelli *Director, Head of Research, Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org • nitens.org • @readermeter <http://twitter.com/readermeter>
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