GLAM/Newsletter/April 2014/Contents/Open Access report
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Wikipedia-based altmetrics; Barriers to reuse of OA materials
Towards Wikipedia-based altmetrics

Wikipedia-based altmetrics made some steps forward this month: a blog post looked at scholarly references cited on the English Wikipedia using the Cite doi template and identified the ten most cited ones. Only one of these was openly licensed - a description of a new species of moth, accompanied by a revision of the corresponding genus, Schrankia. In a next step, the citation counts were combined with page view stats, much like BaGLAMa (for which a new version has just been released) does this for categories on Wikimedia Commons. This produced another top ten list, again with only one article being openly licensed - this time a revision of the dinosaur genus Triceratops. As a final step, the citations were aggregated by publisher (similar to the Wikipedia Cite-o-Meter, which has just been ported to Wikimedia Labs), thereby creating another top ten list, in which open-access publishers were not represented.
Inconsistent XML as a barrier to reuse of Open Access content
JATS is an XML standard used for scholarly articles, e.g. those hosted at PubMed Central, the largest repository of free-to-read biomedical literature. The JATS community held its annual meeting on April 1-2 at the National Library of Medicine, and one of the talks there dealt with inconsistencies in this XML as a barrier for reuse. It resulted from bug reports related to the Open Access Media Importer, as briefly reported in the November 2012 issues of the Open Access report. In a commentary, the conference organizer called upon the JATS community to act upon these reported inconsistencies in order to facilitate future reuse of JATS-based resources.
Open Access Media Importer
The following represents a selection of the ca. 300 files that have been uploaded by the Open Access Media Importer this month, bringing the total to over 16,100. If you can think of wiki pages where these files could be useful, please put them in there or let us know.
Open Access File of the Day
The following files have been featured as Open Access File of the Day this month:
April 30: Pelusios seychellensis.
April 29: Trachypachus gibbsii.
April 28: flower in Malpighiaceae family
April 27: an automobile crash simulation
April 26: pupa of the fly Japanagromyza inferna
April 25: stain showing signs of Glomerulonephritis
April 24: the moth Acontia albifusa
April 23: the prehistoric termite Nanotermes isaacae
April 22: pancreatic stellate cell activation
April 21: the knotweed Persicaria attenuata
April 20: The snake Calamaria bitorques.
April 19: the threefin blenny Helcogramma trigloides
April 18: Trochulus villosus.
April 17: types of anglerfish
April 16: the fly Japanagromyza inferna
April 15: the dinosaur Anatosuchus minor
April 14: a dog displaying the movement disorder ataxia
April 13: shell of snail Pleurocera prasinatum
April 12: The millipede Leptogoniulus sorornus.
April 11: the snail Helicina platychila
April 10: the lizard Varanus bitatawa
April 9: a beetle of family Lycidae
April 8: the site of the ancient Happisburgh footprints
April 7: nest of the wasp Synoeca septentrionalis
April 6: Solitary pulmonary nodule as seen by positron emission tomography
April 5: The squid Euprymna scolopes.
April 4: Platymantis cagayanensis.
April 3: the flowering plant Pauridiantha floribunda
April 2: young squid Idiosepius pygmaeus
April 1: illustration of the genome