Abstract: With the rise of Wikipedia as a first-stop source for scientific knowledge, it is important to compare its representation of that knowledge to that of the academic literature. This article approaches such a comparison through academic references made within the worlds 50 largest Wikipedias. Previous studies have raised concerns that Wikipedia editors may simply use the most easily accessible academic sources rather than sources of the highest academic status. We test this claim by identifying the 250 most heavily used journals in each of 26 research fields (4,721 journals, 19.4M articles in total) indexed by the Scopus database, and modeling whether topic, academic status, and accessibility make articles from these journals more or less likely to be referenced on Wikipedia. We find that, controlling for field and impact factor, the odds that an open access journal is referenced on the English Wikipedia are 47% higher compared to closed access journals. Moreover, in most of the worlds Wikipedias a journals high status (impact factor) and accessibility (open access policy) both greatly increase the probability of referencing. Among the implications of this study is that the chief effect of open access policies may be to significantly amplify the diffusion of science, through an intermediary like Wikipedia, to a broad public audience.

“Are you searching for library jobs specialising in repositories access and management? A London University is currently recruiting for a Institutional Research Repository Assistant. Initially a 3 month temporary contract, with the possibility of an extension into a 12 month fixed term contract….”

“You want to publish your recently written article in an Open Access journal and you found out that the journal charges you Article Processing Charges, also well known as APC. What possibilities you have to pay for your APC since publishers do NOT want you to pay the APC out of your own pocket. There are sources of funding available that authors can use to cover APC….”

“We are looking to recruit an Open Science Developer to work on the THOR project. You will join the Literature Services team at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) located on the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus near Cambridge in the UK….”  

“The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), and the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) are scholarly organizations that have seen an increase in the number, and broad range in the quality, of membership applications. Our organizations have collaborated in an effort to identify principles of transparency and best practice for scholarly publications and to clarify that these principles form part of the criteria on which membership applications will be evaluated.

These criteria are largely derived from those developed by the Directory of Open Access Journals. Note that additional membership criteria may also be used by each of the scholarly organizations. The organizations will not share information about applications received. We do not intend to develop or publish a list of publishers or journals that failed to demonstrate they met the criteria for transparency and best practice.

This is the second version of a work in progress (published June 2015); the first version was made available by OASPA in December 2013. We encourage its wide dissemination and continue to welcome feedback on the general principles and the specific criteria. Background on the organizations is below …”

“UC Berkeley Library is looking for a service-oriented Scholarly Communication Officer whose principal role will be to educate the university community about scholarly publication modes, intellectual property/copyright, and open access issues and services. S/he will be a campus resource on local, national and international scholarly communication developments and activities and their impact on scholarly inquiry and instruction….”

“Ryerson University Library and Archives is currently seeking a Copyright and Open Access Assistant to aid with the creation of two subject specific LibGuides and well as the updating of Scholarly Communication and Copyright webpages. As well the successful candidate would expected to assist with updating transactional permissions in the University copyright database. The primary objective of this project is to create two new detailed, rich and informative LibGuides, one that focuses on Copyright and one that focuses on Scholarly Communication issues. Both will act as a core resource for information about copyright and scholarly communication at Ryerson University, and be useful for both faculty and students. These are new resources. The Copyright LibGuide will deal with issues of: instructor copyright compliance at the University including E-Reserves, student copyright information, copyright basics, fair dealing and other copyright exceptions, copyright exceptions, and copyright-free and Creative Commons resources that can be used in teaching and by students (open educational resources). The Scholarly Communication LibGuide will include an overview of Open Access, information of the Ryerson Digital Repository, the Open Access Author Fund, self-archiving strategies, predatory open access journals, basics of bibliometrics, author publishing agreements, the Tri-Council Open Access policy, open access journals (green versus gold), and an Open Access Resource reading list….”

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“Two of Jisc’s OA pathfinder projects (those led by UCL and Manchester) have agreed that, to reflect specific challenges currently facing universities in implementing OA, they will over the next year take on additional work in the following areas …”

“Academic publishing company Elsevier has filed a complaint at a New York District Court, hoping to shut down the Library Genesis project and the SciHub.org search engine. The sites, which are particularly popular in developing nations where access to academic works is relatively expensive, are accused of pirating millions of scientific articles….”

“The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) announces the search for editor in chief of a new journal to be launched in 2016 and published, alongside The Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Social Sciences and Psychological Sciences, The Gerontologist, and Public Policy & Aging Report, by Oxford University Press. As a fully open access journal, it will consider de novo submissions, as well as high-quality submissions out of the scope of the other GSA journals, both pre-review and post-review….”

“The CNRS LAPP (Laboratoire d’Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules) institute is opening a postdoctoral research position to play a scientific leading role in the activities of ASTERICS (Astronomy ESFRI & Research Infrastructure Cluster), a project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme….A background in…modern astrophysical open-access tools and frameworks such as the Virtual Observatory would be appreciated….The Cherenkov Telescope Array – CTA – …will serve as an open observatory to a wide scientific community, therefore the technical implementation of the CTA data management fulfils the requirements of an open science project and aims at guaranteeing reliable processing, ensuring quality of services for access, dissemination and transmission of data….”

“SCIENCE-CENTRAL is Centralized Institutional Repositories Hosting Service for DST-DBT Labs and a Harvester service for DST-DBT [Department of Science and Technology – Department of Biotechnology] Institutional Repositories.

Individual OAI-PMH Compliant Institutional Repositories have been configured and customized on the central server for the each of DST-DBT labs which do not have Institutional Repositories in their own data centre. All DST-DBT lab’s repositories are being regularly harvested by the central harvester. This value added service enables the research community to search and view the R & D literatures from different DST-DBT Institutes through one single console.

The sciencecentral.in is a main domain under which sub domains for each laboratory’s IR are created like http://nccs.sciencecentral.in/ and http://nabi.sciencecentral.in/. In addition two dedicated centrilized IR’s for DST and DBT have been installed namely http://dst.sciencecentral.in and http://dbt.sciencecentral.in. …”

“Research outcomes resulting from taxpayers’ investment in research are a common good and should be made openly available for all. According to the European Commission (EC), open access (OA) is defined as the “practice of providing online access to reusable scientific information that is free of charge to the end user.”1 The EC is a significant funder of research and facilitates collaborative and cross-disciplinary scientific activities. In 2008, the EC launched the Open Access Pilot,2 requiring beneficiaries of its previous funding program, the 7th Framework Programme (FP7), to make their best effort to ensure OA to peer-reviewed articles. Its new funding program, Horizon2020, will invest nearly €80 billion in competitive research.3 Here the mandate was strengthened to stipulate that the publication output of all EC-funded projects be made open.4 …”

“Palgrave Macmillan and Nature Publishing Group have been brought together into one global science and scholarly group to better meet the needs of researchers in all disciplines around the world. 

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Open Research Marketing department for a Markting Executive to be responsible for the planning and implementation of tactical marketing activities for a number of multidisciplinary open research titles, including the flagship open access journal Nature Communications….”