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This Month in GLAM – Volume IV, Issue IV, April 2014

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Open Access report

Wikipedia-based altmetrics; Barriers to reuse of OA materials

By Daniel Mietchen

Towards Wikipedia-based altmetrics

Schrankia pelicano, a species of moth described in one of the articles most cited on the English Wikipedia

This comparison of Triceratops skulls is from one of the articles most cited on the English Wikipedia, weighed by page views

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.