Re: [Wikimedia-l] Comment Open on U.S. Open Access Policy

2020-04-23 Thread Jane Darnell
Yes this remains a problem. The only thing I can think of is that in our current gig economy reputation is everything and timeliness of information feedback is more and more important. I think publicly funded research deserves both public access and proper attribution throughout the whole

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Comment Open on U.S. Open Access Policy

2020-04-23 Thread Peter Southwood
The entertainment industry has more influential lobbyists? P -Original Message- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of James Salsman Sent: 20 April 2020 23:40 To: Wikimedia Mailing List; Yaroslav Blanter Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Comment Open

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Comment Open on U.S. Open Access Policy

2020-04-22 Thread James Salsman
Yaroslav, How do you feel about the system of compulsory royalties they have to pay for both academic journals and news journalism in Germany? See e.g. https://www.vgwort.de/die-vg-wort.html In the U.S., we pay musicians for their works played on the radio, in public venues, and pirated, all out

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Comment Open on U.S. Open Access Policy

2020-04-20 Thread Jake Orlowitz
er) >4. Re: Comment Open on U.S. Open Access Policy (James Heilman) > > > -- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:26:29 -0700 > From: Pete Forsyth > To: Wikimedia Mailing List > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Comment Open on U.S. Open Access P

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Comment Open on U.S. Open Access Policy

2020-04-20 Thread Geert Van Pamel
-Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Wikimedia-l Namens Jake Orlowitz Verzonden: maandag 20 april 2020 22:11 Aan: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Onderwerp: [Wikimedia-l] Comment Open on U.S. Open Access Policy My Letter to the U.S. Office for Science and Technology Policy regarding a proposal for federally

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Comment Open on U.S. Open Access Policy

2020-04-20 Thread James Heilman
We within the Wikimedia movement have a open access journal without any publication fees. https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group There are also other platinum open access publishers. James On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 2:52 PM Yaroslav Blanter wrote: > As an actively publishing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Comment Open on U.S. Open Access Policy

2020-04-20 Thread Yaroslav Blanter
As an actively publishing researcher, I just know that mandating open access publishing would mean that the author pays the (huge) publication fee rather than the library pays the subscription. In an ideal world, the universities would refund the fees, and will get subsidy from the governments, In

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Comment Open on U.S. Open Access Policy

2020-04-20 Thread Shani Evenstein
Jake, well written and nicely put. Is this online somewhere, where we can share it further? Best, Shani. --- *Shani Evenstein Sigalov* * Lecturer, Tel Aviv University. * EdTech Innovation Strategist, NY/American Medical Program, Sackler School of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Comment Open on U.S. Open Access Policy

2020-04-20 Thread Pete Forsyth
Jake, How can we most effectively support your excellent effort with this? -Pete -- Pete Forsyth User:Peteforsyth on Meta, English Wikisource, English Wikipedia, etc. On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 1:22 PM Tito Dutta wrote: > Hello, > Very well-written and well-supported by statistics. Thanks for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Comment Open on U.S. Open Access Policy

2020-04-20 Thread Tito Dutta
Hello, Very well-written and well-supported by statistics. Thanks for sharing. Regards. User:Titodutta On Tue, Apr 21, 2020, 1:41 AM Jake Orlowitz wrote: > My Letter to the U.S. Office for Science and Technology Policy regarding a > proposal for federally mandate open access to publicly-funded

[Wikimedia-l] Comment Open on U.S. Open Access Policy

2020-04-20 Thread Jake Orlowitz
My Letter to the U.S. Office for Science and Technology Policy regarding a proposal for federally mandate open access to publicly-funded research... --- Wikipedia is one of the ten most popular websites in the world. Each month 200,000 editors improve over 6 million articles. This vital public