Dear all, this situation was actually discussed in detail when the policy was drafted, and it is reflected in two parts of the policy: - Under "C. Published Materials. Researchers will publish any output in an Open Access outlet under a Free License.", it states "If a work based on the project is accepted for publication in a peer reviewed outlet that does not make its articles available online, free of charge, and under free licenses, an electronic copy of the author’s accepted manuscript will be submitted to a public and permanently archived repository by the official date of publication, without any embargo period, and released under a Free License." ==> This basically means you can publish in closed-access journals, as long as you make a pre- or postprint openly available. - Under "2. Limited waiver", it states "Specific waivers from the expectations above may be applied in limited circumstances on a case-by-case basis. Researchers wanting a waiver are required to submit to the Wikimedia Foundation, in writing, a detailed explanation of why they require the waiver. The Wikimedia Foundation will publicly post a summary of the request and its response. "
This is also covered in the FAQ, part D, along with limited funding options (cf. https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Open_access_policy/FAQ ). Cheers, d. On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 10:17 PM, Jonathan Morgan <jmor...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Thanks, Sydney and Pine. > > This is timely, as Resources is currently re-vamping their instructions for > grant proposals (including research-focused grants). So it's a good time to > hammer out our policy and process here. > > Max: if you're willing to ping me off-list and relate some of the details of > your conversation, that will help me follow up on the particular issue > you're facing right now. > > I want this to be clear and easy for grantees going forward—if WMF is > funding research, we should be prepared to support the dissemination of that > research in a way that aligns with our values. In the future, I would like > to see grantees budget anticipated OA fees into their requests, and a > process for vetting this during the proposal review period. > > I know there has been some conversation between Research and Resources > around this issue in the past, but I don't know if there were decisions > made... more likely I'll need to start it back up again. We're all still > working out the kinks in the OA policy (even staff researchers are trying to > understand the ramifications for our work). > > I'll make sure to notify this list when I learn more. > > Jonathan > > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Sydney Poore <sydney.po...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Hi Max, >> >> This issue was discussed in the context of a paper about Wikipedia working >> with medical students in the classroom. >> >> See the talk page and endorsements for the discussion that led to the >> grant being approved. . >> >> >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/bluerasberry/open_access_release_funding_for_paper_on_Wikipedia_in_classroom >> >> Sydney >> >> Sydney Poore >> User:FloNight >> Wiki Project Med Foundation >> WikiWomen's User Group >> Facebook https://www.facebook.com/sydney.e.poore >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 9:49 PM, Maximilian Klein <isa...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hello All, >>> >>> As you might know WMF has an Open Access Policy that requires all work >>> that they fund to be Open Access[1]. A strange consequence of this policy, >>> that I recently ran into, is that it requires researchers funded by grants >>> to publish OA -- but without providing any funding to do so. That is, I >>> recently completed an Individual Engagement Grant (IEG), part of whose scope >>> was explicitly to write a paper about the work[2], and when I wrote to WMF >>> to acquire funds for OA publishing, they confirmed that the paper was under >>> the OA mandate but indicated that funds were not available to pay for OA >>> publishing. >>> >>> Has anyone else use WMF's Open Access Policy? What was your experience? >>> >>> [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Open_access_policy >>> [2] >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/WIGI:_Wikipedia_Gender_Index#Activities >>> >>> Make a great day, >>> Max Klein ‽ http://notconfusing.com/ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wiki-research-l mailing list >>> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wiki-research-l mailing list >> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >> > > > > -- > Jonathan T. Morgan > Senior Design Researcher > Wikimedia Foundation > User:Jmorgan (WMF) > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l