[Wikimedia-l] The Wikipedia Library: Accessing free reliable sources is now easier than ever

[Sam Walton]

Hi all,

We've just published a blog post summarising the new features and
functionality available to active Wikipedia editors in The Wikipedia
Library:
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/01/19/the-wikipedia-library-accessing-free-reliable-sources-is-now-easier-than-ever/

The Wikipedia Library is a tool providing active Wikipedia editors with
free access to otherwise-paywalled resources, including journals, books,
newspapers, magazines, and databases. Over the past 5-10 years the library
has built up a large collection of content from a wide range of publishers.

In the past couple of years we've been finalising the centralised Wikipedia
Library tool used for accessing all this content:
https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/. I'm really pleased to announce that
we've finished work on some long-requested and planned features which make
it really simple to use!

The library now has:

   - Proxy-based authentication for direct access of resources without a
   secondary login
   - A centralised search feature for browsing multiple collections from
   one place
   - An on-wiki notification to let editors know about the library when
   they have crossed the eligibility threshold (rolling out in stages
   throughout January)

As the project I first joined the Wikimedia Foundation to work on years ago
I'm personally thrilled that we've finally been able to deploy all these
features!

If you're eligible to use the library (500+ edits, 6+ months editing) you
can jump in and start using the library straight away. We're now working on
expanding and diversifying the content available in the library, so let us
know on the suggestions page if there are collections you want us to make
available: https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/suggest/

If the tool isn't currently localised into your language, you can translate
it on TranslateWiki:
https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Wikipedia_Library_Card_Platform

We're planning to host some Office Hours, which will be a chance to get a
walkthrough of how to use the library, as well as discuss your research
needs and requests for new collections with the team. Look out for more on
that in the coming weeks.

-- 
Sam Walton
Product Manager, The Wikipedia Library

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[Wikimedia-l] The Wikipedia Library - new technical improvements and partnerships now available

[Sam Walton]

Hi all,

The Wikipedia Library team at the Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to
announce new technical improvements to the Library Card platform and the
addition of 6 new publisher collections. If you’re an active editor who
would find free access to paywalled reliable sources useful for your
contributions, log in now to see what you can access:
https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/

More than half of the publishers available through the library can now be
accessed directly through the Library Card platform, rather than requiring
an individual account to be set up and maintained for each. Additionally,
the Library Bundle provides immediate access to 60% of our content with no
application required!

We’re also excited to announce that 6 new publishers have joined the
program, including ProQuest, Springer Nature, and the Central and Eastern
European Online Library.

You can read more about these changes in the blog post we just published:
https://space.wmflabs.org/2020/06/24/simplifying-your-research-needs-the-wikipedia-library-launches-new-technical-improvements-and-partnerships/

We hope you find these resources useful, and would love to hear your
feedback at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Library_Card_platform/Authentication-based_access

Best,
Sam

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Product Manager, The Wikipedia Library
Wikimedia Foundation

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[Wikimedia-l] New Wikipedia Library Access (signup)

[Jake Orlowitz]

Hi!
The Wikipedia Library has new, free research donations available:

* Gale (multidisciplinary periodicals, newspapers, and reference sources)


* Brill (academic e-books and journals in English, Dutch, and other
languages)


* Finnish Literature Society (Literature in Finnish)
<
https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedian_L%C3%A4hdekirjasto/Suomalaisen_Kirjallisuuden_Seura
>

* Magiran (Farsi scientific journal database)
<
https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%BE%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7:%D9%85%DA%AF%E2%80%8C%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86
>

* Civilica (Farsi magazine and journal articles)
<
https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%BE%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7:%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%A7
>

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on:


Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references
across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!

The Wikipedia Library Team
 
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Wikipedia Library Signups: Free Research Accounts!

[Jan Ainali]

2014-11-06 4:09 GMT+01:00 Jake Orlowitz jorlow...@gmail.com:

 I do whatever I can to support OA, to tweet about open access button
 efforts, to promote WikiProject Resource Exchange, to support the OA
 signalling project, to engage with initiatives like the Open Access reader,
 and to discuss the broader mission of sharing knowledge with reference
 experts and journals.  The tides are changing and I see it daily as I speak
 with librarians and journal publishers.


It would be nice if the Wikipedia Library encouraged, or perhaps even
required, that everytime a citation is added from a source behind a
paywall, the Open Access button should be used to report it.

/Jan
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Wikipedia Library Signups: Free Research Accounts!

[Lane Rasberry]

 

 It would be nice if the Wikipedia Library encouraged, or perhaps even
 required, that everytime a citation is added from a source behind a
 paywall, the Open Access button should be used to report it.


I would love to see this happen. While that button is not mentioned here,
the coordinators of the Signalling open access project are supporters of
the button and if the Wikipedia community had more presence in the open
access movement then promoting the button and perhaps even automating its
use would be a next step I would like to see happen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Open_Access/Signalling_OA-ness





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Re: [Wikimedia-l] New Wikipedia Library Signups: Free Research Accounts!

[Jake Orlowitz]

(sorry this conversation is happening across multiple lists, I should have
used cc for the emails... )

Responding to Mitar on open access:

You know I think it's sad too that we have to go around asking for
donations and selling Wikipedia's value as a portal to publishers.  On the
other hand, we have 500 million monthly readers and when they come to
Wikipedia they will see the content we have summarized from sources.  The
only question is whether that content is from full-text-available-online
sources *only*, or from all of the best sources regardless of their access
status.

At the end of my day, I have to serve our editors and readers as best I can
and that means giving them as much access to the best research as possible
today.  You may think this is a devil's bargain, but I have to admit that
I'm a pragmatist and I'd rather have our editors summarize paywalled
content for our readers than for that content to not be represented on
Wikipedia at all, even if readers may hit a paywall when they click-through.

It's long been Wikipedia's policy (at least English Wikipedia) that
accessibility is not a deciding factor when it comes to what is a reliable
source.  That applies to out of print manuscripts as well as to embargoed
journals--we use the best sources now because we have an encyclopedia to
write.  If we aim to change that, it requires a very deep discussion about
how we prioritize and strategize our mission.

I do whatever I can to support OA, to tweet about open access button
efforts, to promote WikiProject Resource Exchange, to support the OA
signalling project, to engage with initiatives like the Open Access reader,
and to discuss the broader mission of sharing knowledge with reference
experts and journals.  The tides are changing and I see it daily as I speak
with librarians and journal publishers.

In other words, the efforts of The Wikipedia Library advance our mission
and are indeed *complementary* to the radical vision of open access that I
wholeheartedly support.

So, I hope you take this as my saying, I agree completely and also So
what, we have an encyclopedia to write!

Happy to continue discussing this.

Best,
Jake (Ocaasi)

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Mitar mmi...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi!

 This reminds me of ugly practices of proprietary software companies
 giving free software to students so that they are able to learn the
 tools and then later on have to pay. So we will be making links to
 paywalled journals and we will be able to do it for free, but then our
 readers will have to pay to read them? So Wikipedia will provide free
 advertisements for paywalled content? Nicely done, nicely done.

 This is not open access. This direct opposite to open access. We
 should not be proud of this.

 (Please don't take this as an attack on anybody personally and I think
 The Wikipedia Library Team is doing a great job, but I really feel
 this is a bad deal. And it was sent to the open access mailing list.
 Which this is not.)


 Mitar

 On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Jake Orlowitz jorlow...@gmail.com wrote:
  Hi!
  The Wikipedia Library has new, free research donations available:
 
  NEW
  *DeGruyter: 1000 accounts for English and German-language research, sign
 up
  on one of two language Wikipedias:
English signup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:De_Gruyter
German signup https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:De_Gruyter
  *Fold3: 100 accounts for American history and military archives
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fold3
  *Scotland's People: 100 accounts for Scottish Genealogy database
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ScotlandsPeople
 
  EXPANDED
  *British Newspaper Archive: 100+ new accounts for British Newspapers
  archives
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BNA
 
  OPEN
  *Highbeam: 100+ accounts for newspapers and magazines
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:HighBeam
  *Questia: 100+ accounts for various aggregated journals and social
 science
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Questia
  *JSTOR: 100+ accounts for journal archives
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:JSTOR
 
  Accounts are available to ALL global editors with a 1 year old account
 and
  1000 edits.  Please notify your local community about the signups.
 Signups
  for now are mostly on English Wikipedia, UNLESS you have started a local
  Wikipedia Library branch like we've done on Arabic, Chinese, and
 German.  To
  get started, please contact Ocaasi at [[m:User:Ocaasi (WMF)]] or
  oca...@wikimedia.org
 
  Thanks!
 
  The Wikipedia Library Team
   http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library
 
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[Wikimedia-l] The Wikipedia Library: Books Bytes Newsletter is out!

[Jake Orlowitz]

Hello fellow library enthusiasts!

Our August-September edition of Books  Bytes is full of news:
*TWL is now a Wikimedia Foundation program, moving on from its grant status
under IEG to a full-time contract
*Our *four* new partnerships, including a huge *De Gruyter* donation and a
pilot program with industry leader *Elsevier*
* Lots of updates about our new TWL coordinators, news from Wikimania,
details on a redesigned account distribution platform in the works,
upcoming Wiki Loves Libraries events, and our Fall 2014 conference calendar
* Special Spotlight: Traveling Through History - A passionate editor
talks about his experiences using TWL resource Newspapers.com
* Bytes in Brief:  Short clips about libraries, open access, and digital
humanities from around the web

You can read it all at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/Newsletter/August-September2014


Best,
Jake Orlowitz (Ocaasi)
The Wikipedia Library
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[Wikimedia-l] The Wikipedia Library: June/July Books and Bytes Newsletter and Final Report

[Jake Orlowitz]

Hello all,

The June/July double-issue of our Books  Bytes Newsletter is out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/Newsletter/June2014


You can also catch up on the high level happenings from the past year of
grant-work in our schnazzy final report:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/The_Wikipedia_Library/Renewal/Final


Long story short:  2000 editors received 3000 accounts individually worth
over a million dollars.

We hope all of you attending Wikimania will drop by the talk, The Future
of Libraries and Wikipedia

https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/The_Future_of_Libraries_and_Wikipedia


And you can stay around after the Wikimania talk for our first ever global
Wikipedia Library Meetup.
https://plus.google.com/events/ct52hv6rnk0g1mu9c3pdoroee98

Hope you're all well and we're looking forward to lots of more great work
with Wikipedia and Libraries!

Jake, Sadads, The Interior, and the rest of the Wikipeidia Library Team
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Wikipedia Library: June/July Books and Bytes Newsletter and Final Report

[Pine W]

Thanks Jake. TWL was used as a positive example by Jessie Wild in her grant
programs evaluation.

Pine
On Aug 1, 2014 10:54 AM, Jake Orlowitz jorlow...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hello all,

 The June/July double-issue of our Books  Bytes Newsletter is out:
 

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/Newsletter/June2014
 

 You can also catch up on the high level happenings from the past year of
 grant-work in our schnazzy final report:
 

 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/The_Wikipedia_Library/Renewal/Final
 

 Long story short:  2000 editors received 3000 accounts individually worth
 over a million dollars.

 We hope all of you attending Wikimania will drop by the talk, The Future
 of Libraries and Wikipedia
 

 https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/The_Future_of_Libraries_and_Wikipedia
 

 And you can stay around after the Wikimania talk for our first ever global
 Wikipedia Library Meetup.
 https://plus.google.com/events/ct52hv6rnk0g1mu9c3pdoroee98

 Hope you're all well and we're looking forward to lots of more great work
 with Wikipedia and Libraries!

 Jake, Sadads, The Interior, and the rest of the Wikipeidia Library Team
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Wikipedia Library: June/July Books and Bytes Newsletter and Final Report

[梁忠明]

Thanks Jake for mentioning our Chinese counterpart of the TWL in the
newsletter. But it seems that there're only a few done since then...
Workflow unimproved, no work assignments, etc.
On 2014年8月2日 上午2:18, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:

 Thanks Jake. TWL was used as a positive example by Jessie Wild in her grant
 programs evaluation.

 Pine
 On Aug 1, 2014 10:54 AM, Jake Orlowitz jorlow...@gmail.com wrote:

  Hello all,
 
  The June/July double-issue of our Books  Bytes Newsletter is out:
  
 
 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/Newsletter/June2014
  
 
  You can also catch up on the high level happenings from the past year of
  grant-work in our schnazzy final report:
  
 
 
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/The_Wikipedia_Library/Renewal/Final
  
 
  Long story short:  2000 editors received 3000 accounts individually worth
  over a million dollars.
 
  We hope all of you attending Wikimania will drop by the talk, The Future
  of Libraries and Wikipedia
  
 
 
 https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/The_Future_of_Libraries_and_Wikipedia
  
 
  And you can stay around after the Wikimania talk for our first ever
 global
  Wikipedia Library Meetup.
  https://plus.google.com/events/ct52hv6rnk0g1mu9c3pdoroee98
 
  Hope you're all well and we're looking forward to lots of more great work
  with Wikipedia and Libraries!
 
  Jake, Sadads, The Interior, and the rest of the Wikipeidia Library Team
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[Wikimedia-l] The Wikipedia Library: New Free Accounts Available

[Jake Orlowitz]

The Wikipedia Library has new, free research account signups available:

New
* British Newspaper Archive http://enwp.org/WP:BNA (50 accounts)
* Keesing's World News Archive http://enwp.org/WP:Keesings (25 accounts)

Expanded
* Credo Reference http://enwp.org/WP:CREDO (200 new accounts)
* JSTOR!! http://enwp.org/WP:JSTOR (400 new accounts).

Medical
* BMJ http://enwp.org/WP:BMJ (25 accounts)
* Cochrane Library http://enwp.org/WP:Cochrane (100 accounts)

Other
*Questia Online Library http://enwp.org/WP:Questia (500 accounts)
*HighBeam Research http://enwp.org/WP:HighBeam (500 accounts)

 Sign up!

Accounts are available to ALL global editors with a 1 year old account and
1000 edits.  Please notify your local community about the signups.  You can
signup today on English Wikipedia.  But!  If you have started a local
Wikipedia Library branch you can host signups on your local Wiki (Arabic,
Chinese...).  To set up a Wikipedia Library branch email Ocaasi at
jorlow...@gmail.com.

Thanks!

Jake Orlowitz (Ocaasi)
The Wikipedia Library
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library
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[Wikimedia-l] The Wikipedia Library: Books Bytes Newsletter (#4)

[Jake Orlowitz]

Hi all,

The latest edition of Books  Bytes is out, with a full overview of recent
Wikipedia Library organizing and outreach opportunities, our Spotlight
editorial/interview, plus news and notes from around the open access and
library world.  Hope you'll check it out!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TWL/Newsletter

Best,

Jake Orlowitz (User:Ocaasi)
Coordinator, The Wikipedia Library
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Wikipedia Library

[James Alexander]

For everyones ease :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:The_Wikipedia_Library/Newsletter/Recipients

James Alexander
Legal and Community Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation
(415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur


On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 3:51 AM, Lionel Allorge 
lionel.allo...@lunerouge.org wrote:

 Hi,

  Sign up to receive announcements and news about resource donations and
  partnerships: '
  http://enwp.org/WP::The_Wikipedia_Library/Newsletter/Recipients

 Your link is broken.

 Regards.
 --
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 Lune Rouge : http://www.lunerouge.org
 April : http://www.april.org


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Re: [Wikimedia-l] The Wikipedia Library

[Jake Orlowitz]

I'm sensitive to concerns about the Library's location.  It is partly a
legacy issue:  The Wikipedia Library partnerships started on English
Wikipedia, and that's where the Credo, HighBeam, Questia, JSTOR, and
Cochrane account donations were coordinated.  This made some sense at the
time because these were English language source being donated (although the
donations were promoted to and open to all global editors and projects).   That
will remain--global notifications about account donations and organizing
will be sent using Global Message Delivery, Wikimedia Foundation blog posts
and Signpost mentions will make other announcements.

This is always a tricky issue for our movement but the intent is very much
to benefit all projects and conduct outreach to all regions.  For
neutrality, META is obviously best, but for overall convenience, English
Wikipedia remains the largest and most active project, with the highest
concentration of English language speakers.   So in that sense it's a
question of maximizing convenience versus equalizing inconvenience.  If
hosted on Meta, everyone has to switch wikis to get there.  If hosted on
ENWP, all non-ENWP still editors have to switch wikis to get there, but the
huge chunk of ENWP editors do not.
This will hopefully become much less of an issue with interface changes
like Flow and Global Watchlists.  Meta did just get notifications, so
that's helpful, but I still feel collaboration is somewhat limited by our
current infrastrcutre.

There are other concerns such as turning Meta into a true hub for all of
our editors, and representing our global nature by hosting global projects
there.  These are important, and I want to give it more thought.

So, in the meantime going to look into hosting this on Meta, and I will
definitely at least mirror a portal there.  It may take some time while we
continue to organize and get set up

I'd like to continue talking more about this.  Cheers,

Jake Orlowitz (Ocaasi)
jorlow...@gmail.com
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