I'm sorry, let me a pedant librarian: * the topic of Access to research has been mainly referred to with the term Open Access. You will find tons of material with that name.
* we have a Wikimedian in Residence for Open Access, Daniel Mietchen. * *Open Access and the divide between “mainstream” and “peripheral” science* is a great essay by Guédon (underlines some social drawbacks of the current publishing system), one of the best I read. You can find it here: http://eprints.rclis.org/12156 * *Reinventing discovery* is a great 2011 book from Michael Nielsen, it speaks about Open Access and also crowdsourcing in escience. Very interesting. * the folks at archiveteam set up this: http://aaronsw.archiveteam.org/ It is not properly legal, read it all. * if you want to publish in/read a OA journal, find it here: http://www.doaj.org As for us, the Wikimedia movement, we can definetely do more. It is just a matter of tactics, but we want this, so make it happen. Aubrey On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 2:09 AM, Etienne Beaule <betie...@bellaliant.net>wrote: > There is also Access2Research < > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Access2Research > about free > research > articles in the Us. > > > On 2013-01-14 21:06, "Everton Zanella Alvarenga" < > ezalvare...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > > Don't worry, Richard, this news is now hot, but the situation din't > > progress that much from what it could be. > > > > We have the Busapest Open Access Initiative since 2002 > > <http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/openaccess/read>. We can find > > videos of professor Jean-Claude Guédon, one of the person who wrote > > this initiative one decade ago, explaining in details the logics > > behind all this. > > > > The publish (on closed journals) or perish still reigns in the > > academia, so it is very important we explain the importance of > > knowledge to be free for every single person we meet. Still a lot to > > do. > > > > Tom > > > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:48 PM, Richard Symonds > > <richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: > >> Good lord, so it did. My apologies! It was making the rounds tonight > and my > >> excitement got the better of me. > >> > >> This is why I don't work in communications! > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l