Wikipedia:WikiProject Open/Open access task force/Open Access Catalogue/OA publishers/DOI prefixes entirely OA

About

This page hosts an incomplete list of DOI prefixes for which ALL content is open access, along with the publisher that is the DOI registrant for that prefix. Please help expand it.

Purpose

We plan to flag OA-ness of references cited on Wikipedia, so as to make open-access references more visible to Wikipedia editors and readers. So far, we have done this manually (example) but in the long term, the aim is to automate the procedure. The most probable avenue for that is to integrate the use of {{Open access}} into {{Cite journal}} by way of some logical operations on the DOI. We will start with DOI prefixes. Once this works fine, it may be possible to expand the flagging to journal level (as long as the journal name is consistently encoded in the DOI suffix), but it would actually be preferable to have an external tool flag OA-ness - perhaps in different colours to highlight the licensing terms, and certainly in a machine-readable fashion - from where a bot could pull the flag into the cite template used here (see Hackathon suggestion #1).

List

The default license for everything published under these prefixes is CC BY (2.0 or later), unless stated otherwise. A DOI prefix is excluded from being listed here if it hosts any resource that is not freely accessible (example). No distinction is made between DOIs pointing to papers, data or other targets.

Tests

• Works fine at http://species-id.net/wiki/Template:OA-ness and http://species-id.net/wiki/User:Daniel_Mietchen/Sandbox but not at Template:OA-ness and User:Daniel Mietchen/Sandbox.

  See Template talk:OA-ness. --John Vandenberg ^(chat) 23:42, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

  Thanks - works fine for now. -- Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 01:10, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

• The above implementation works at the level of DOI prefixes (roughly equal to publishers) and thus only for publishers for which ALL content is ALWAYS OA or ALWAYS NOT OA. To go a bit more fine-grained, information on OA-ness will have to be imported on scale from places like DOAJ, perhaps starting with the list of CC-licensed journals.