Looping in Phoebe Ayers, now at MIT Libraries, who has been getting a few
questions from faculty about this email.

Cheers,
Jake

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 6:54 AM Jason Priem <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sorry I know I'm late to this thread, but just wanted to mention the oaDOI
> API, which could be helpful depending on your goals.
>
> We can easily handle 225k DOIs if you spread them out over a few
> hours...we currently serve 500k DOIs daily, and have handled 2M daily in
> the past with no trouble. Response time is about 200ms at that load.
>
> We also have a data dump so you could store it all locally and make it as
> fast as you like, if you want to put the resources into that.
>
> We currently have records for all 90M DOIs, and OA locations for ~10M of
> them. We're in the middle of a large rolling update (v2) that will add
> links to another 7M or so hybrid DOIs.
>
> ResearchGate and Academia.edu resources are not included in the index,
> which is either a feature or a bug depending on your goals :)
>
> FWIW, we now have an evaluation set
> <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kC9A9WscsPr-N3r8ULZYjTZdJb3NdhrbMtGlJSHJn-M/edit#gid=263352758>
> comparing oaDOI v1, oaDOI v2, the Dissemin API, and the Open Access Button
> API. oaDOI v2 is currently putting up the best numbers, particularly in
> precision (low false positives)
>
> There are some qualifiers, though. The evaluation set is a random sample
> of all DOIs, across all years. We count RG as closed. The gold standard is
> manual coding based on Google and Google Scholar searches, which was done
> independently (by Lisa Matthias and Juan Alperin, coauthors on our recent
> paper <https://peerj.com/preprints/3119v1/>).
>
> So feel free to interpret accordingly :). But we think it might be
> helpful, particularly since it's quite time-consuming to create the manual
> gold standard of availability (and without this there tend to be a lot of
> false positives).
>
> Feel free to ignore if it's not what you're looking for. Happy to help (or
> not) any way we can!
> Best,
> J
>
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 7:42 AM, Rudy Patard <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm glad to see this initiative and the momentum it is getting.
>> I know automation is needed and will provide scale. However, I have a
>> feeling we are missing an ingredient, something (not else) but more.
>>
>> Freeing academically produced literature is not just about pushing
>> formerly published work toward open archives.
>> A lot of work, resources and money is spent to sent publicly funded work
>> in the private lucrative repositories of a very limited number of
>> publishers. In France, Elsevier receive from Couperin-Abes (the organism
>> 'negotiating' and buying access to journals for most of french research
>> institutions) about as much money as the world wide Wikimedian budget. As a
>> whole, France could pay a double wikimedia if giving-up all what is know
>> from these subscriptions. Furthermore from the research I maid and lived,
>> academia in its vast majority simply do not care. It is part of the
>> economics of academia (some notoriety-academical-kapitalism). One aiming at
>> a carrier in research can hardly escape this system. And from first hand
>> experience I'd rather discourage writing about it without a secured
>> academical position.
>> So civil society must push a bit to get back what she made possible. In
>> my opinion Wikimedia is just the right intermed body.
>>
>> What is done to make contact with researchers showing them, repeatedly,
>> who is financially supporting their work and that *public *research can
>> directly be produced under free (libre) licenses ? Going toward opening
>> knowledge communities more than opening past research would benefit more
>> the interaction between researchers and the rest of society.
>>
>> As discussed with Dario and previously on some wikimedian discussion on
>> this matter (can't find the URL), I was proposing to enable emailing
>> corresponding authors via the mailing tool of a * wikimedian account *(in
>> use for notifications). And I mean a person-account (not *just *bots*)*.
>> Pre- established mails would be sent with links such as the ' Email this
>> user <https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Special:EmailUser/RP87> ', but
>> addressed to corresponding authors found in the meta-data or head of the
>> article.
>>
>> For instance:
>> ~To {{U|the user mailing the request}} Please, consider personalizing
>> this e-mail template ~
>> "Dear 'Auto- Author-Name',
>> Searching the references on 'Auto- Matter-Topic', indicated on the
>> article 'Auto- Wikimedian-article', I found your paper entitled 'Auto-
>> Article-Title'. I was impeded in this work by paywalls.
>> Would you please publish this work in an open archive [Auto- major
>> archives links]. Their are by the way alternative way to publish scientific
>> work, direct open access, without author publishing charges : 'Link toward
>> wikiversities scientific journals'.
>>
>> Nice formulations about knowledge creation and dissemination etc.
>> Sincerely yours,
>> {{U|Auto- the user}} and the wikimedian community."
>>
>> The contact links would be placed in the reference part or in a template
>> at the head of the article :
>> "This article *does not cite
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources> enough Open Access
>> sources <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability>*
>> Contact corresponding authors, in order to free this knowledge and
>> related references.
>> Click and send, from your wikimedian account, requests to theses authors
>> to free their work 'Auto-e-mail-LINK'.
>> * article 1
>> * article 2
>> ...
>> If you are working on this topic, please join an open-peer-reviewing
>> group [[open-peer-reviewing group portal]]'
>> If you are from any part of civil society interested in the topic and
>> searching for advanced knowledge on the topic, please join a
>> [[vulgarization group]] for not-understood content, or a [[bibliographic
>> intelligence and problematization group]] for 'non-researched yet' material.
>> "
>>
>> I'll watch for the visio-chat opportunity (some mumble equivalent at
>> least if we are many). But the current period is quite loaded, with social,
>> political and work context. So I may just contribute on any meta / wiki
>> page you point toward. I push this mail toward some friends, former
>> colleagues and contacts, as I'm sure some will see opportunities.
>>
>> Best Regards
>>
>> @+
>> Rudy {{U|RP87}}
>>
>> On 29 August 2017 at 19:57, Joseph McArthur <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the quick reply, tried the same below.
>>>
>>> On Tue, 29 Aug 2017 at 17:31 Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Joseph McArthur, 29/08/2017 18:52:
>>>> > Federico, this sounds amazing!
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> >
>>>> > I want to offer the help of the Open Access Button request system
>>>> here: [...]
>>>> >
>>>> > I'd love to work with you to figure out how we can help here, as it
>>>> > would be a shame for us to duplicate this!
>>>>
>>>> Sure. In fact I reused some of your learnings, so you already
>>>> contributed to my campaign.
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/OAButton/discussion/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=commenter%3Anemobis%20
>>>
>>>
>>> Oh grand, I'll take a peak at those issues in the coming days and see if
>>> there is anything else useful I could add.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  From https://github.com/OAButton/discussion/issues/587 I got the
>>>> impression you wouldn't be able to sustain my requests for 224k DOIs at
>>>> once, so I figured I'd try to add some additional capacity with WMIT
>>>> resources at least for this initial test of mine. In the short term
>>>> (September), if some of you have spare cycles, I could use your help in
>>>> drafting the next emails and replying to support requests.
>>>>
>>>
>>> From issues it sounded like you were doing a few thousand emails to
>>> authors, which we could manage with a bit of co-ordination (technically,
>>> you could do it via the API without consulting but it would be quite
>>> innefficient for us) e.g let us know what you want requested in a
>>> spreadsheet, and then we'll get it up the same day and have messages sent.
>>> If you simply wanted to run 224k DOI's to see if they were available,
>>> that's a pretty light lift, so I wouldn't worry about that (just hit the
>>> API when you fancy).
>>>
>>> We might have some spare time, shall we try and have a 30 minute chat by
>>> phone (or similar) and try to hammer something out? If that makes sense see
>>> if there a time that works for you here: doodle.com/joemcarthur.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> In the long term, if we want something stable as suggested by Dario (or
>>>> indeed John
>>>> <
>>>> https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/accelerating-open-access-adoption-john-dove
>>>> >),
>>>> I agree we should go through some permanent help desk like the OAbutton,
>>>> ideally with some resources/support from SPARC, JISC, OpenAIRE or
>>>> whoever is interested in directly supporting green OA beyond specific
>>>> borders.
>>>>
>>>
>>> All the more reason to chat :)
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nemo
>>>>
>>>> P.s: I've removed from Cc some addresses which I believe are already in
>>>> the list, to avoid making these messages always go into moderation.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> --
>>> Joseph McArthur
>>> Assistant Director: Right to Research Coalition
>>> <http://righttoresearch.org/>
>>> Co-Lead/Founder: Open Access Button <http://openaccessbutton.org/>
>>> Twitter: @Mcarthur_Joe <https://twitter.com/Mcarthur_Joe>
>>> Skype: joseph_mcarthur
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