On Sun, 2021-09-19 at 12:17 +0300, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:

[...]

> The Wikidata community also can't benefit from those publications
> unless 
> they're made (libre) open access, so I think it would be fair to
> require 
> all the papers will be OA (preferably) or explaining how the authors
> can 
> archive them (for free) under a free license (libre green OA) à la:
> https://www.coalition-s.org/rights-retention-strategy/
> https://cyber.harvard.edu/hoap/How_to_make_your_own_work_open_access

I think this is too strong.  There is no reason that the Wikidata
community cannot benefit from publications in venues that are not open
access.  Of course open access makes publications more accessible and
more in line with Wikidata goals but to my mind a publication that is
not open access can provide a benefit to the Wikidata community.

>  From a search <https://link.lens.org/AFeru5oPGdg> it's easy to find 
> good and bad examples. Bad is
> e.g.https://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-web-semantics/1570-8268/guide-for-authors
> >
> (claims embargos and all sorts of restrictions), rather good is e.g. 
> <https://aclanthology.org/venues/emnlp/> 
> (<https://aclanthology.org/faq/> states CC-BY).

I think that you should have searched further and found out more about
the open access policy of the Journal of Web Semantics.  In
https://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-web-semantics/1570-8268/open-access-options
there is "In accordance with funding body requirements, Elsevier does
offer alternative open access publishing options. Visit our open access
page for full information."

> Federico

peter

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