GLAM/Newsletter/May 2013/Contents/Open Access report
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Bugfixes; over 10,000 files from PLOS; conferences
Milestones
While PeerJ (who started publishing this year) saw their first files uploaded to Wikimedia Commons this month, the number of files originating from PLOS - who started PLOS Biology as their first journal in 2003 - rose above 10,000, in large part due to the Open Access Media Importer.
Conference sessions
The provisional Wikimania programme includes a session entitled Open Access & Wikipedia: Opening the world's academic research to improve the world's most popular reference source.
A breakout session "Reusing Open Access materials - a Wikimedia perspective" will take place in Geneva on June 20 as part of the CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI8).
Conference abstracts on the Open Access Media Importer and related topics have been submitted to OKCon, the Creative Commons Global Summit and JATS-Con (a conference dedicated to the XML standard in use at PubMed Central and thus also the bot).
Open Access Media Importer
In a code sprint, a number of bugs have been fixed, resulting in the facilitation of the import of back files and thus an increase in the number of imports by a few hundred files with respect to April.
With the back files largely imported (save about a hundred that failed to convert properly due to non-standard media files), the focus of coding is now shifting towards enabling routine operation.
Gallery
The following represents a selection of the 714 files that have been uploaded by the Open Access Media Importer this month, bringing the total over 11,800. 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:
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May 31: Dendrelaphis inornatus timorensis, a snake from Timor-Leste -
May 30: Scanning electron microscopic image of the shell of a Tarebia granifera snail. -
May 29: The butterfly Papilio hospiton. -
May 28: A minor and a major worker of the ant Pheidole pilifera. Scale bar: 1 mm. -
May 27: parietal bones of Einiosaurus procurvicornis -
May 26: A Microcaecilia dermatophaga caecilian with eggs. -
May 25: Varanus timorensis from Timor-Leste. -
May 24: the nudibranch Peltodoris atromaculata -
May 23: operative repair of esophageal atresia -
May 22: the moth Antispila oinophylla on the grape Vitis vulpina -
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May 20: Aptostichus barackobamai, the spider named for Barack Obama -
May 19: The ground beetle Cymindis platicollis. -
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May 17: Flowers of Silene species -
May 16: Tiered rice paddies in the Baucau district, East Timor. -
May 15: Podarcis pityusensis, the Ibiza wall lizard scavenging fish scraps -
May 14: Ophiocordyceps unilateralis controls behavior of its host ants -
May 13: human cortical development between 26 and 39 week gestational age -
May 12: The snail Tamayoa decolorata. -
May 11: A pair of Herennia multipuncta spiders. -
May 10: events in alpha-synuclein toxicity -
May 9: Pelochelys cantorii from Luzon in the Philippines -
May 8: A male Craspedisia spatulata spider. -
May 7: the greater noctule bat Nyctalus lasiopterus -
May 6: floodplain around Lake Ira Lalaro in East Timor -
May 5: love dart of the snail Bradybaena similaris -
May 4: axon guidance in Drosophila -
May 3: Copa kei male from Cwebe Nature Reserve -
May 2: dispersal of seeds by the airflow of vehicles
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May 1: holotype of Homo cepranensis
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