The months of April and May saw some exciting developments with the Wikipedia Library. We expanded our journals and online database offerings with two new partnerships, both of which are currently open for signups. TWL also made plans to attend and present at the
American Library Association's Annual Conference, held this year in
Las Vegas,
Nevada, in the last week of June.
Library highlights
We are very pleased to announce two new partnerships at TWL. Two of the UK's oldest and most reputable publishers, the
Oxford University Press (OUP) and the
Royal Society, have donated accounts for Wikipedians to use in their research. As of publication, there are still open spots available. In detail:
The OUP donation (apply here!) consists of 150 Humanities packages, which bundle five of OUP's popular online products for our editors. Included in the package are:
The Royal Society journals donation (apply here!) came about through the efforts of the Royal Society's Wikipedian-in-Residence,
User:Wiki at Royal Society John. The venerable Society has offered access to its journal archives in three disciplines:
Biological sciences
Physical sciences
History of science
As we are still in talks with JSTOR about expanding the number of available accounts, current access for the original 100 editors has been extended through June.
TWL will be attending, presenting, and meeting with potential new partners at the American Library Association's Annual Conference, held this year in Las Vegas. Along with partner OCLC, TWL will be giving a presentation titled "
Wikipedia and Libraries: Increasing Your Library's Visibility", scheduled for 1:00pm to 2:30pm on Saturday, June 28th, at
Caesars Palace. TWL will be looking to make more contacts with library professionals to improve the Wikipedia/library interface, increase awareness of The Wikipedia Library and its partnership model, and approach new partners through the conference's well-attended vendor Exhibitor's Hall.
As part of an ongoing effort to broaden TWL's availability to more Wikipedias, Arabic Wikipedia opened its branch of the Wikipedia Library in May. Part of the rollout was an innovative new approach:
micro-grants for editors to make book purchases. The project is now up and running, and applications for new books are open.
TWL coordinators made a push to contact the next group of publishing partners from our January survey. We talked to: Cambridge University Press, NewsBank, NewsStand, Project Muse, Literature Online, British Newspaper Archive, Handbook of the Birds of the world, Lyell Collection, Keesings Record of World Events, OVID, BMJ, HathiTrust, HighWire, InfoTrac, PaperOfRecord, PsycInfo, The Washington Post, America's Historical Newspaper's, Taylor & Francis, and The Times. Having a team of four coordinators doing outreach is helping us follow-up at an even bigger scale.
Four universities are taking on six Wikipedia Visiting Scholars as part of TWL's outreach to academic libraries: Montana State University, University of California at Riverside, Rutgers, and George Mason University.
TWL is pleased to announce a new coordinator and project manager,
User:Sadads. An experienced Wikipedian and academic, Sadads will be assisting with donor outreach and building relationships with academic libraries over the summer of 2014. Welcome to the TWL team!
One of Sadads's first projects was to compile best practices for library interns contributing to Wikipedia; he is compiling best practices from the
Wikipedia Education Program,
GLAM-Wiki movement and published case studies in professional library publications (for example, see last week's
Signpost discussion of such an article from the University of Pittsburgh libraries). Feedback, further materials (whether intern assignments or advice), copy editing, and help developing materials would be greatly appreciated at the
main resource page. Also, if you are interested, we could use experienced Wikipedia contributors or librarians to act as
Online Ambassadors and help monitor interns throughout the Fall through
our new course page.
The months of April and May saw some exciting developments with the Wikipedia Library. We expanded our journals and online database offerings with two new partnerships, both of which are currently open for signups. TWL also made plans to attend and present at the
American Library Association's Annual Conference, held this year in
Las Vegas,
Nevada, in the last week of June.
Library highlights
We are very pleased to announce two new partnerships at TWL. Two of the UK's oldest and most reputable publishers, the
Oxford University Press (OUP) and the
Royal Society, have donated accounts for Wikipedians to use in their research. As of publication, there are still open spots available. In detail:
The OUP donation (apply here!) consists of 150 Humanities packages, which bundle five of OUP's popular online products for our editors. Included in the package are:
The Royal Society journals donation (apply here!) came about through the efforts of the Royal Society's Wikipedian-in-Residence,
User:Wiki at Royal Society John. The venerable Society has offered access to its journal archives in three disciplines:
Biological sciences
Physical sciences
History of science
As we are still in talks with JSTOR about expanding the number of available accounts, current access for the original 100 editors has been extended through June.
TWL will be attending, presenting, and meeting with potential new partners at the American Library Association's Annual Conference, held this year in Las Vegas. Along with partner OCLC, TWL will be giving a presentation titled "
Wikipedia and Libraries: Increasing Your Library's Visibility", scheduled for 1:00pm to 2:30pm on Saturday, June 28th, at
Caesars Palace. TWL will be looking to make more contacts with library professionals to improve the Wikipedia/library interface, increase awareness of The Wikipedia Library and its partnership model, and approach new partners through the conference's well-attended vendor Exhibitor's Hall.
As part of an ongoing effort to broaden TWL's availability to more Wikipedias, Arabic Wikipedia opened its branch of the Wikipedia Library in May. Part of the rollout was an innovative new approach:
micro-grants for editors to make book purchases. The project is now up and running, and applications for new books are open.
TWL coordinators made a push to contact the next group of publishing partners from our January survey. We talked to: Cambridge University Press, NewsBank, NewsStand, Project Muse, Literature Online, British Newspaper Archive, Handbook of the Birds of the world, Lyell Collection, Keesings Record of World Events, OVID, BMJ, HathiTrust, HighWire, InfoTrac, PaperOfRecord, PsycInfo, The Washington Post, America's Historical Newspaper's, Taylor & Francis, and The Times. Having a team of four coordinators doing outreach is helping us follow-up at an even bigger scale.
Four universities are taking on six Wikipedia Visiting Scholars as part of TWL's outreach to academic libraries: Montana State University, University of California at Riverside, Rutgers, and George Mason University.
TWL is pleased to announce a new coordinator and project manager,
User:Sadads. An experienced Wikipedian and academic, Sadads will be assisting with donor outreach and building relationships with academic libraries over the summer of 2014. Welcome to the TWL team!
One of Sadads's first projects was to compile best practices for library interns contributing to Wikipedia; he is compiling best practices from the
Wikipedia Education Program,
GLAM-Wiki movement and published case studies in professional library publications (for example, see last week's
Signpost discussion of such an article from the University of Pittsburgh libraries). Feedback, further materials (whether intern assignments or advice), copy editing, and help developing materials would be greatly appreciated at the
main resource page. Also, if you are interested, we could use experienced Wikipedia contributors or librarians to act as
Online Ambassadors and help monitor interns throughout the Fall through
our new course page.