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To retouch or not to retouch, that is the question
Today’s Open Access File of the Day has been retouched and may well be the first in the series to have undergone such treatment – another form of reuse enabled by the use of open licenses when...
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Reuse increases discoverability – try an image search for “Sorghum”
When I recently did an image search, I was not surprised to see files from Wikimedia Commons pop up on top of the ca. 600k results, but noticed with pleasure that the first image originated from an...
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Encouraging reuse of Open Access materials – a response to the OSTP’s RFI on...
Below is a copy of the final draft (permalink) for a response to the Request for Information on Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Publications Resulting From Federally Funded Research, ready for...
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How would you illustrate the difference between humans and chimps?
A paper in PLoS Biology came out in 2005 with the following abstract: Since the divergence of humans and chimpanzees about 5 million years ago, these species have undergone a remarkable evolution with...
View ArticleAttribution stacking as a barrier to reuse
On Wednesday, I gave a talk and displayed a number of files that had been produced by others. They were all linked to a dedicated page containing all the metadata necessary for proper attribution of...
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Musings on the Research Works Act, Open Access pledges and Wikimedia
Over on Foundation-l, an interesting thread has been developing today on the Research Works Act, Open Access pledges and any potential role therein for Wikimedia. I just posted some thoughts on the...
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Lice in 50 languages
Lice can be tremendously useful. For instance, the high but not perfect specificity of several different species of lice allows to use information about their phylogeny to infer some information about...
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Ten Years of Open Access – and how to celebrate the wiki way
Ten years ago, the Budapest Open Access Initiative went public by inviting individuals and organizations to sign a statement in support of Open Access to the scholarly literature, defined as its free...
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Reusing, revising, remixing and redistributing research
A contribution to the PLOS blog on the occasion of Open Access Week. Introduction The initial purpose of Open Access is to enable researchers to make use of information already known to science as part...
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Open Access Report November 2012
Since January, I have been posting a monthly summary of Open-Access-related activities pertaining to Wikimedia projects as part of the GLAM Newsletter on the Wikimedia Outreach wiki. I am posting these...
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