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 process and not just for the final publication.
Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 20, 2020, at 10:52 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. This is not only sensible, it is essential >>> to >>>>> civic health, societal progress, and human flourishing. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Sincerely, >>>>> Jake Orlowitz >>>>> Founder of The Wikipedia Library >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> --- >>>>> >>>>> "Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Publications, Data and Code >>>>> Resulting From Federally Funded Research" >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >> https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/02/19/2020-03189/request-for-information-public-access-to-peer-reviewed-scholarly-publications-data-and-code >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >>>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >>>>> New messages to: [email protected] >>>>> Unsubscribe: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >>>>> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >>>> New messages to: [email protected] >>>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >>>> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >>> New messages to: [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >>> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> New messages to: [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
