Wikipedia:WikiProject Open/Open access task force/Wikimedia at OAI8

Several members of WikiProject Open Access attended the CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI8) at the University of Geneva on 19-21 June 2013. This page served to coordinate their activities and to keep the community informed about the event.

The current Open Access File of the Day
the beetle Neotermitosocius bolivianus
Kanao, T.; Eldredge, K.; Maruyama, M. (2012). "Two new genera and species of the termite symbiont lineage Termitohospitini (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae) from Bolivia and peninsular Malaysia". ZooKeys (254): 67–87. doi:10.3897/zookeys.254.4043. PMC 3561922. PMID 23378816.
This file is from an openly licensed academic publication and has been reused multiple times on Wikimedia projects. Nominate a file! Use {{OAFD}}

on 20 Jun 2013 from 16:15 to 18:00

• Title: BG6 - Reusing Open Access materials - a Wikimedia perspective

• Aims
  • To share and discuss examples of reuse of Open Access materials, to identify barriers to reuse and to highlight some approaches to overcoming them

• Possible outcomes
  • A draft set of recommendations on how to publish in a way that facilitates reuse

Thursday

• Open Access Policy developments

• lunch at WHO on Monday, June 17, with User:Biosthmors, User:Bluerasberry, User:Daniel Mietchen (all three of Wiki Project Med), User:GastelEtzwane and one other user
• starting WikiProject OA on Commons/ Wikidata, or a user group on Open Access?

Most of these subpages correspond to what normally are the slides of a presentation; some are auxiliary.