Federico,
Many (most?) authors will have scholarly communication librarians
and I.R. managers at their institution. Have you considered providing
links in your e-mails to their institutional support for sharing their
articles? I know that adds an additional layer of processing, but it
does create a virtuous cycle.
-john dove
Sent from my iPad.
> On Aug 29, 2017, at 2:10 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> John G. Dove, 28/08/2017 19:14:
>> 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.
>
> Thank you for your kind words. It's nice to see the authors' enthusiastic
> response, but the warmth from OA friends including
> https://twitter.com/petersuber/status/898941119924502528 has given me more
> energy to continue.
>
> Jake, the text is no secret. Originally I intended to draft it together with
> everyone else here on Meta, but then only WMIT/AISA OA people offered to help
> so we're coordinating things on the WMIT wiki. If somebody wants to help more
> (e.g. by providing at least 10 hours of work in our "help desk" for authors),
> I can get them added to the wiki and/or OTRS. By the end of September I plan
> to publish some ideas on how to proceed in a more coordinated fashion.
>
> Mind you, I contact only people whose work is depositable according to
> SHERPA/RoMEO per Dissemin. Hundreds of authors have replied and I've told
> many to contact their journal or publisher if they're still unsure. I hope
> they get useful replies!
>
> So, below you find one version of the text (I should really cut it a bit).
>
> Nemo
>
> ----
>
> From: Wikimedia Italia Open Access group
> Subject: Thanks for your research, from Wikipedia articles
> Body:
>
> Dear Pinco Pallo,
>
> thank you for your research and for advancing public knowledge about your
> field! We think you'll be interested in knowing that the English Wikipedia
> references your work
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=all&search=insource:[DOI]>
> (doi:[DOI]).
>
> As you know, Wikipedia strives for neutrality and verifiability: all are free
> to edit, insofar they summarise suitable published information and points of
> view, so that every reader can study the topic further and revise or expand
> the articles as needed. If we want the public to exercise critical thinking
> and grow knowledge, we need such scientific literature to be freely
> available, in Open Access. It's already possible to make all the scientific
> literature just one click away for everybody from Wikipedia articles, but we
> need the authors' help.
>
> In fact, your publications could be archived in an open repository according
> to their journal's policies, but they were not yet (according to SHERPA/RoMEO
> and available metadata). The good news is that you can now make all your
> works freely available for everybody with few clicks, thanks to Zenodo
> (hosted by CERN): you only have to search Dissemin
> <https://dissem.in/search/?status=couldbe&authors=Pinco+Pallo> for your name
> and upload the PDF files for all the publications which can be archived,
> while the system takes care of filling the metadata.
>
> The Dissemin page about each work contains more information and links on the
> policies which allow you to upload a copy. Usually you can share without
> restrictions at least the pre-print, that is the file as you submitted it for
> peer review; in most cases you can also share the post-print, that is the
> final file you submitted after peer review (before any editing by the
> publisher). Dissemin will ask you to login via ORCID: you may already have an
> ORCID account from your institution, but if not you can easily signup and
> create your unique author identity.
>
> To integrate with free knowledge resources, "libre" Open Access helps: at
> Wikimedia we prefer the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike (CC BY-SA)
> license, or the CC BY. For more information, we recommend the SPARC Open
> Access website and Peter Suber's how-to
> <https://cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/How_to_make_your_own_work_open_access> .
>
> We hope you will use Dissemin <https://dissem.in> today to reach a wider
> audience.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Federico Leva for Wikimedia Italia
>
> P.s.: If you reply with comments or questions, we'll forward to a group of
> field experts who will help. This message is sent to your address as relevant
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