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On January 10, 2012, WikiProject Open Access has been started on the English Wikipedia. Since then, progress in the development of matters pertaining to Open Access and related issues have been reported in the monthly Open Access Reports as part of the GLAM Newsletter, and updates to this page have been discontinued. Science file of the day This section will host the preparations for a sciency version of Picture of the day. If you come across some great files (e.g. images, multimedia, CSV, code snippets) already in use in or potentially useful for a Wikimedia project, please post them here for consideration to be included in the series. Thank you. Since December 1, 2011, an Open Access File of the Day has been posted every day. Reuse stats for Open Access sources Materials in this section have been superseded by those presented in the Open Access Reports and the occasional Tool testing reports. Reuse of suitably licensed materials from external sources is common already, as highlighted by the numerous attribution templates (snapshot as of July 20, 2011) and content partnerships (snapshot as of July 20, 2011). However, Open Access materials have not been tapped systematically as a source for Wikimedia projects. As an illustration of the current state of affairs, consider the following table that lists mentions of different sources on the English Wikipedia (typically as references; "Citing" column) and on Wikimedia Commons (typically files taken from such references, "Reused" column). Numbers displayed here are from May 31, 2011. All of the pages linked below have also been archived manually by way of WebCite on July 20, 2011. Help with automating the documentation of these numbers would be appreciated. Resource (OA bolded) Citing pages Reused files Default license Comments Cross-wiki Elsevier 29643 414 © [1] JSTOR 19018 134 © NPG 16167 121 © Springer 13549 149 ©  ; hybrid PNAS 12599 25298 ©  ; hybrid 25,255 files on Commons are referencing one and the same paper on gene expression (doi:10.1073/pnas.0400782101; related to Gene Wiki) Wiley 11945 46 © AAAS 6580 54 © ACS 6283 448 © Taylor & Francis 4758 27 © BMC 2831 921 CC-BY PLoS 2666 719 CC-BY [2] arXiv 4812 98 arXiv  ; CC licenses possible numbers of search results as of Aug 12, 2011; original search links were 2154 and 58 on May 31 and 2210 and 60 on Aug 12. Royal Society 2042 35 ©  ; hybrid SAGE 1934 9 © IOP 1333 10 ©  ; hybrid Encyclopedia of Life 1097 255 CC-BY-NC; other CC licenses possible but not widely used Scholarpedia 240 0 © by DOI: 13/ 0 Hindawi 221 14 CC-BY Citizendium 125 74 CC-BY-SA Biophysical Society 73 0 © Copernicus 66 1 CC-BY Pensoft 49 1034 CC-BY Wikispecies partner Frontiers 31 1 CC-BY De Gruyter 522 0 © added on Sep 22, 2011 Wikisource Discussion of large-scale import of open-access sources Batch upload Commons:Partnerships Commons:Batch uploading