Phoebe created https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries , I suggest everyone interested in OA just join us there. I know is yet-another-list, but it will allow librarians from the outside to step in and join the conversation.
There are few threads in which we are basically discussing the same things, it should be good to merge them in the same place. (so I'll stop here and wait few days to post a reply in the new list :-) Aubrey 2011/7/12 Thomas Morton <morton.tho...@googlemail.com> > > > > On the other hand, PLoS (plos.org - the public library of science) is > > a great journal publisher that reviews and publishes scientific work > > under a free license. [They impose even fewer restrictions on reuse > > than Wikimedia, using CC-BY, which is a more appropriate license in my > > opinion for novel and scientific work.] > > > > > At the very least we should evangalise publishers such as this as a great > place to look for specialist sources (for Wikipedia etc.); often I find > myself limited to using paid-access sources and I always feel frustrated by > this. > > Free and open journals are awesome, and any opportunity to make use of them > should be encouraged. > > Tom > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
