Open Access Reader

Introduction

Open Access Reader is a project to systematically ensure that all significant open access research is cited in Wikipedia.

There's lots of great research being published in good quality open access journals that isn't cited in Wikipedia. It's peer reviewed, so it should count as a reliable source. It's available for anyone to read and probably comes with pretty decent metadata too. Can we set up a process to make it super convenient for editors to find and cite these papers?

Project Overview

We break down this endeavour into four parts:

I: Sourcing Papers

There exist projects to provide API access to the aggregation of all open access repositories, such as CORE. It makes sense to use one of these instead of re-inventing the wheel, but which should we use?

II: Prioritising Significance

There are millions of papers published every year. What's the best way to decide which papers editors should tackle first?

III: Identifying, Recruiting and Alerting Editors

It's likely that OA papers come with metadata. How can we use this to find editors that are likely to take an interest?

IV: Streamlining Editor Workflow

How can we make this convenient for editors to use?

Project Management

OAR is a brand new initiative as of March 2014!

Roadmap

1. Socialise the concept and get comments and feedback.
2. Develop a basic specification for each part.
3. Try and create an end-to-end minimum viable product.

The Team

• Project Lead: EdSaperia (talk)
• Grantwriter: Katherine Bavage
• Open Access consultants
  • Stuart Lawson
  • Simon Knight
  • Michelle Brook
  • Daniel Mietchen
  • Blue Rasberry (talk)

Perhaps you'd like to volunteer?

Grants

The OAR team is creating an application for an IEG grant.