--- On Tue, 15/3/11, David Goodman <dgge...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: David Goodman <dgge...@gmail.com>
> I've been involved with open > access journals as a professional > activity from the start of the movement, long before I > joined > Wikipedia. There has been only limited success. > Though there are > almost ten thousand open access journals, 95% of them are > either very > small or very unimportant, and in almost all fields > of study, none or > almost none of the important journals are open access: This is my experience too; thanks for pointing it out. > No important journals at all in chemistry are open access, > Almost none in physics > Almost none in geology > Almost none in ecology & evolution > A few in molecular & cell biology > A few only in biomedical sciences > None in psychology > Almost none in the social sciences or the humanities > Almost none in engineering and applied science > A few in medicine <snip> > At this point, there is no academic field of study > whatsoever where an > adequate article could be written using only open access > material. > This is of course a very limiting thing for access to > information not > just for us, but for the world in general, and the WMF > projects should > certainly cooperate as closely as possible with the > forces working > for open access, but the suggestion that it is possible to > limit to or > even prefer open acces material is incompatible with the > policy on > using the best available sources. Could someone from the Foundation please respond to the idea of contacting universities and content database providers and inviting them to support Wikipedia by making a certain number of log-in IDs available, with the benefit -- to them -- that increased citation of high-quality publications would potentially make these publications visible to a larger audience? Is this something the Foundation would consider pursuing? Andreas _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l