GLAM/Newsletter/October 2016/Contents/Open Access report

This Month in GLAM – Volume VI, Issue X, October 2016

Open Access report

Open Access Week; 7,000 new audiovisual media; 2 Requests for Comment & 1 bot

Open Access Week

Like every year during the last full week of October, Open Access Week was celebrated with activities all around the globe, including on-wiki.

Two Requests for Comment on how to signal free-to-read scholarly articles cited on the English Wikipedia

Two Requests for Comment on the English Wikipedia have been posted that ask for community input on how citation templates should indicate whether a cited reference is free to read or not, and how the corresponding icons should look like. They are accompanied by a request for approval of a bot that would make the corresponding edits on an automated basis.

OAMI: Over 7k new uploads

This month, the Open Access Media Importer uploaded over 7,000 new video and audio files, i.e. about one fourth of all the files it has ever uploaded since it started operating in mid-2012. The total crossed the 25,000 mark on October 27 (which was World Day for Audiovisual Heritage) and the 30,000 mark in the night to November 1. The sharp increase this month is due in part to improvements to the workflows, in part to the extension of the bot to some selected hybrid publishers, whose Open Access content the bot had so far been set to ignore due to problems with reliably determining the licensing of the articles. As usual, some files have also been uploaded from other sources during this period. If you see a way to use any of these files on-wiki or elsewhere, please go ahead. A very small selection of these uploads is embedded below.