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 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 our real world, the researchers will have to pay everything > out of their own pocket, with some of them losing all possibilities to > publish, for the lack of funds. I tried to raise this before, and the > universal reply was that this is my problem, not the problem of the > society. I do not expect anything else this time. > > Cheers > Yaroslav > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:34 PM Shani Evenstein <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > 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 Medicine, Tel Aviv University. > > > > * PhD Candidate, School of Education, Tel Aviv University. > > * Azrieli Foundation Research Fellow. > > * OER & Emerging Technologies Coordinator, UNESCO Chair > > <https://education.tau.ac.il/node/3495> on Technology, > > Internationalization > > and Education, School of Education, Tel Aviv University > > <https://education.tau.ac.il/node/3495>. > > > > * Member of the Board of Trustees > > <https://wikimediafoundation.org/profile/shani-evenstein-sigalov/>, > > Wikimedia > > Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>. > > * Chairperson, The Hebrew Literature Digitization Society > > <http://www.israelgives.org/amuta/580428621>. > > * Chief Editor, Project Ben-Yehuda <http://benyehuda.org>. > > > > +972-525640648 > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:27 PM Pete Forsyth <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > 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 <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > 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 <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > information is viewed on 1 billion unique devices as our pages are > > > loaded > > > > > by people around the globe 7,000 times per second. > > > > > > > > > > Wikipedia is the "free encyclopedia", both in its open CC-BY-SA > > > licensing > > > > > as well as the unpaid contributions of its volunteer editors. Yet > > > > > Wikipedia's hundreds of thousands of editors struggle to access > > > scholarly > > > > > research. And, if they are able to read and cite it, then hundreds > of > > > > > millions of readers cannot verify or explore it for deeper > research. > > > > > > > > > > Citations are the bridge between Wikipedia articles and a broader > > > > landscape > > > > > of reliable, secondary sources. Citations not only allow readers to > > > > verify > > > > > the reliability of the facts they find in Wikipedia; through > > citations > > > > > readers can also deep-dive into any given topic by exploring the > > books, > > > > > scholarly publications, and news stories referenced in an article. > > > > > > > > > > A recently released dataset of all citations with identifiers in > > > > Wikipedia > > > > > found that less than half of the official versions of scholarly > > > > > publications cited with an identifier in Wikipedia are freely > > available > > > > on > > > > > the web. This chasm of for editors and for readers is a tragedy of > > > public > > > > > education and digital literacy. > > > > > > > > > > Just look at the most recent global catastrophe with Coronavirus. > By > > > > April > > > > > 2020 the main articles on COVID-19 had received 50 million views. > > > > > Wikipedia's medical content--made up of more than 155,000 articles > > and > > > 1 > > > > > billion bytes of text across more than 255 languages--has been > ranked > > > as > > > > > one of the top-3 most viewed sources for medical information on the > > > > entire > > > > > internet. > > > > > > > > > > References are essential to the public's trust in Wikipedia. > Indeed, > > > > > Wikipedia's medical content is supported by 757,855 references in > > > English > > > > > and 1,596,528 in other languages, for a total of 2,354,383 across > all > > > > > languages. In English 168,985 have a PMID while 261,850 do in other > > > > > languages. This means at least 430,835 references are journal > > articles. > > > > > > > > > > What happens when those journal articles lie behind a paywall? The > > > public > > > > > suffers from a dearth of good information to make decisions about > > their > > > > > lives as independent citizens and members of a global community. > > > > > > > > > > As founder of The Wikipedia Library, I arranged partnerships with > > > dozens > > > > of > > > > > leading scholarly journals, to give Wikipedia editors free access > to > > > > their > > > > > reliable content and so they would be able to do effective and > > rigorous > > > > > research. This time-intensive process took 6 years to amass access > to > > > > only > > > > > 1/5th of the most highly regarded academic publications. Frankly, > > > > Wikipedia > > > > > editors--volunteers who selflessly give of their intelligence and > > > passion > > > > > to educate--should not have to beg and borrow to access > > publicly-funded > > > > > research. Readers should not hit paywalls when they are seeking > > > > > citizen-supported knowledge. > > > > > > > > > > I implore you to make the bold but entirely reasonable decision and > > > > ensure > > > > > that taxpayers have access to the vital scientific and scholarly > > > studies > > > > > that they themselves fund. 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