GLAM/Newsletter/February 2013/Contents/Open Access report

This Month in GLAM – Volume III, Issue II, February 2013

Open Access report

Interview; WikiProject Open Access News; Open Access Media Importer

GLAM, Open Access, and Aaron Swartz

Seb Chan of the Cooper Hewitt Museum and Pete Forsyth of Wiki Strategies were interviewed on Brian Lehrer TV. Topics included the trend of museums and cultural institutions toward open practices and free licensing, and how this connects with the legacy of Internet visionary Aaron Swartz.

WikiProject Open Access News

The following news from WikiProject Open Access have been posted this month (in reverse chronological order):

February 20: Files from open access sources are used over 1,000 times on the French Wikipedia.

An interview with Peter Suber.

February 14: A video interview with Peter Suber on past, present and future developments in open access to the research literature is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It had been recorded in February 2012 on the occasion of a meeting commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Budapest Open Access Initiative. Traffic stats: Main Page, video, Peter Suber article, Open access article, Budapest Open Access Initiative article.

February 13: An infographic depicting the succession of deep sea communities on wood fall has been proposed as Featured picture candidate. It was originally published in PLOS ONE in January. The voting period ended on February 22. The result: not featured.
February 13: Over 4,000 distinct files from the Category "Open access (publishing)" on Wikimedia Commons are now in use a total of over 78,000 times across 289 Wikimedia projects.
February 8: Open Access report in the January 2013 issue of This month in GLAM (traffic stats).
February 8: The BaGLAMa reports with page view stats for January are out, indicating 42 million visits (up from 21 million last January) across 203 Wikimedia projects (up from 142) to a total of 39k article pages (up from 19k) that use images or media from the Commons category Open access (publishing).

Snoring interrupted by half a minute of sleep apnea.

February 6: An audio recording of a sleeping patient's snoring being interrupted by an episode of sleep apnea is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originally published in BMC Medicine in 2011. Traffic stats: Main Page, sound file, Sleep apnea article.
February 5: More than 200 multimedia files that have been uploaded by the Open Access Media Importer are now used a total of over 600 times across Wikimedia projects.

A beetle attacking and eating a frog.

February 5: A video of a beetle attacking and preying upon a treefrog is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originally published in 2012 in ZooKeys and uploaded to Commons by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page, video, Epomis article, Hyla savignyi article.

February 4: An image of an ovipositing Magicicada cassini female has been proposed as Featured picture candidate. It was originally published in PLOS ONE in 2007. The voting period ended on February 13. The result was: not featured.
February 1: Files from open access sources are used over 1,000 times on the German Wikipedia.

Song of a Black-chinned Hummingbird.

February 1: An audio recording of a Black-chinned Hummingbird (Archilochus alexandri) is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originally published in 2011 in PLOS ONE and uploaded to Commons by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page, sound file, Black-chinned Hummingbird article.

Open Access Media Importer

Gallery

The following files represent a selection of what has been uploaded by the Open Access Media Importer this month. If you can think of wiki pages where these files could be useful, please put them in there or let us know.

Open Access File of the Day

The following files have been featured as Open Access File of the Day this month:

February 28: Adult Gelis apterus female in lateral view.
February 27: Affective psychosis, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, and brain perfusion abnormalities
February 26: Rolling of water droplets on quartz surface prepared using PMMA
February 25: The Sierra Madre on the Philippine island of Luzon.
February 24: The bivalve Xylophaga dorsalis.
February 23: The sea slug Aplysia punctata.
February 22: Rutilus x Alburnus - a natural hybrid of Rutilus rutilus and Alburnus alburnus.
February 21: Incidence of cholangiocarcinoma and Opisthorchis viverrini in Thailand from 1990–2001.
February 20: A Colias myrmidone butterfly.
February 19: The spider Selenops petrunkevitchi.
February 18: Frustules of several diatoms.
February 17: A patient's hands with multiple xanthomas.
February 16: Leukemia cells.
February 15: The sea urchin Asterechinus elegans.
February 14: The dinosaur Sinocalliopteryx gigas feeding on the bird Confuciusornis.
February 13: A juvenile Zodarion styliferum spider.
February 12: Monomeric and dimeric structures of human beta-defensin HBD-2.
February 11: The longhorn beetle Leptostylopsis annulipes.
February 10: Female cone of Ephedra intermedia.
February 9: Nobel laureate John Sulston.
February 8: Detail of a female Apocephalus borealis fly with its ovipositor.
February 7: The water snail Terebralia palustris.
February 6: The ground beetle Cychrus tuberculatus.
February 5: A newborn rhesus macaque imitates tongue protrusion.
February 4: A Plasmodium sporozoite transversing the midgut of an Anopheles stephensi mosquito.
February 3: A Tasmanian devil with Devil facial tumour disease.
February 2: Human embryonic stem cells and neurons derived from them.
February 1: Comparison of the huge claws of the extinct eagle Harpagornis moorei with those of its close relative Hieraaetus morphnoides.