GLAM/Newsletter/March 2012/Contents/Open Access report
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Scholarly journal goes wiki; Open Access Media Importer takes shape
In March, the Wikimedian in Residence on Open Science project focused on the structuring of Open Access materials on Commons, on their use beyond the English Wikipedia and on development of the Open Access Media Importer. Tool testing continued but was hampered by persistent problems with the Toolserver.
PLoS Computational Biology publishes first article destined for Wikipedia
This month saw the publication of the first Topic Page (see January) in PLoS Computational Biology - an article in the journal that had been written specifically for the Circular permutation in proteins entry on the English Wikipedia (see blog post). The article had been drafted in a MediaWiki instance licensed under CC BY. Some screenshots:
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The Circular permutation in proteins entry in the auxiliary wiki used for drafting the Topic Page. -
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Editorial in PLoS Computational Biology, accompanying the first Topic Page -
The editorial featured on the journal's homepage
A session proposal on the integration of journal and wiki workflows has been submitted for Wikimania.
QRpedia use in scholarly publishing
The press release about a new species of plant described in an article in the open-access journal PhytoKeys contained a QRpedia code pointing to Brunfelsia plowmaniana - the new species that had been diagnosed by way of DNA barcoding. Traffic stats: article, QRpedia. A session proposal on scientific GLAM:Wiki collaboration has been submitted for Wikimania.
Open Access Media Importer
Development on the Open Access Media Importer continued, and the contracts have been signed. Two blog posts detail the progress: the module for crawling PubMed Central's Open Access Subset is now functional and can identify supplementary materials from this set - or articles matching specific search terms - that are licensed compatibly with Wikimedia Commons.
The process works much like apt-get: for instance,
oa-cache list-articles pubmed | grep Malaria | grep 'creativecommons.org/licenses/by/'
finds all Malaria-related papers licensed under CC BY.
A session proposal on the Open Access Media Importer has been submitted for Wikimania.
News
A News section on the homepage of Wikipedia:WikiProject Open Access provides project updates. The March entries were:
- March 29: PLoS Computational Biology publishes a Topic Page article that goes straight into en:Circular permutation in proteins (traffic stats). See also accompanying editorial and three blog posts. The article has since been nominated for DYK.
- March 23: PLoS implement banner ads for WikiProject Open Access on all of their journals. Traffic stats.
- March 22: The article Brookesia micra - about a new chameleon species described on February 14 in PLoS ONE - on the German Wikipedia is featured under DYK. Traffic stats.
- March 22: A video illustrating the subject of a paper from PLoS ONE is Media of the day on Wikimedia Commons today (WebCite; traffic stats)
- March 3: An image by Mauricio Antón of a late Pleistocene landscape in northern Spain has been nominated for Commons:Featured pictures. Voting ended on March 12, with the result "not featured". Image source: doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060099.
- March 3: According to BaGLAMa for February, the English Wikipedia has now more than 10,000 articles that use files from Open Access sources.
- March 2: Copyright transfer agreement featured on the Main Page of the English Wikipedia under DYK. Traffic stats.
- March 2: WikiProject Open Access progress report is available in the February 2012 issue of This month in GLAM. Traffic stats.
Open Access File of the Day
The following files have been featured as Open Access File of the Day in March:
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March 30: Section through the olfactory bulb of a 16 days old rat brain. -
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March 28: Spodoptera exigua larva feeding on Nicotiana attenuata. -
March 27: The single-celled ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila, whose genome was published in 2006. -
March 26: The butterfly Boloria improba in its natural environment. -
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March 23: The pauropod Pauropus huxleyi. -
March 22: A T. rex trotting along beside a T. rex-sized chicken. Not just biomechanically impossible. -
March 21: The water flea Daphnia pulex. -
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March 19: A clouded cornea in a patient with Fabry disease -
March 18: Range Expansion of Cro-Magnon into Europe from the Near East until about 32,500 years before present. -
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March 16: MRI scans of patients lacking a corpus callosum. -
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March 14: A male Asian house gecko Hemidactylus platyurus from East Timor. -
March 13: A gorilla using a branch of a tree as a walking stick. -
March 12: Map of the periglacial region in Japan at the height of the Last Glacial Maximum about 20,000 years ago. -
March 11: A mouse fibroblast nucleus in which DNA is stained blue. The distinct chromosome territories of chromosome 2 (red) and chromosome 9 (green) are stained with fluorescent in situ hybridization. -
March 10: The Golden Brain: the headquarters of the Russian Academy of Sciences. -
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March 8: A group of Macaca arctoides monkeys. -
March 7: The viper Cerastes gasperettii with horns. -
March 6: Forest in the Western Ghat, a biodiversity hotspot. -
March 5: Albatrosses associating with a killer whale. Image taken by an albatros-borne camera. -
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March 3: Yeast growing in chemostats. -
March 2: Amelogenesis imperfecta. -
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Assessment table
- The project now has 11 members (up from 8)
- The project now has 149 assessed articles (up from 144):
| Open access articles by quality and importance | ||||||
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| Quality | Importance | |||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | Total | |
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1 | 1 | ||||
| B | 5 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 15 | |
| C | 12 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 29 | |
| Start | 2 | 11 | 17 | 21 | 51 | |
| Stub | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 24 | |
| List | 1 | 1 | ||||
| NA | 2 | 26 | 28 | |||
| Assessed | 24 | 30 | 30 | 39 | 26 | 149 |
| Total | 24 | 30 | 30 | 39 | 26 | 149 |
