Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Open Access

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Description[edit]

The WikiProject Open Access would be concerned with

  1. starting and improving articles related to open access, as per this provisional list
  2. flagging OA-ness of references cited in articles on any topic, by way of {{Open access}}
  3. bringing Open-Access articles onto Wikisource
  4. bringing materials from open-access publications onto Commons
  5. supporting the reuse of such open-access-derived materials across Wikimedia projects
Item 1 is in the purview of WikiProject Academic Journals but extends beyond journals into open-access books and open-access repositories.
Item 2 would be integrated with existing citation templates, especially {{Cite journal}}, which is also in the scope of WikiProject Academic Journals.
Item 3 overlaps with Wikisource:WikiProject Academic Papers
Items 4 and 5 overlap with GLAM initiatives.
List of important pages and categories for this proposed group
List of WikiProjects currently on the talk pages of those articles and categories
Please invite these and any other similar groups to join the discussion about this proposal. See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory to find similar WikiProjects.
Why do you want to start a new group, instead of joining one of these existing groups?
For the moment, I would just like to gauge interest in a WikiProject approach to matters of Open Access. If the goals set out above can be achieved by way of existing WikiProjects, that is fine too.

Support[edit]

Please specify whether or not you would join the project.

  1. I would join. Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 08:36, 27 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Brilliant idea! I came here looking for just this. You have done enough here to inspire me. I am going to set up the project immediately. Blue Rasberry (talk) 06:36, 10 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
    Here is Wikipedia:WikiProject Open Access. Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:43, 12 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion[edit]

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