Universities can't do this, generally. All contracts I have ever seen limit the off-campus access to people connected with the university. A few publishers even limit the on-campus access similarly, but most publishers explicitly permit it.
But many universities do even worse than the contracts say: they limit on-campus access in such a way as to not permit access to visitors. This is true even of some public universities. Various excuses are offerred, none of them valid--the usual one is lack of computer facilities, which lost its credibility a number of years ago. On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen...@yahoo.com> wrote: > --- 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 > -- David Goodman DGG at the enWP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DGG http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l