Books & Bytes
Issue 9, November–December 2014
by
The Interior,
Ocaasi,
Sadads
2014 came to a close with great progress at The Wikipedia Library. We feel we have an amazing core team of organizers fueling the work of a growing number of trusted community volunteer leaders. Our outreach efforts have yielded over twenty resource partners and continue to grow in pace and value. Since announcing the possibility of global Wikipedia Library branches, we have received requests from two dozen communities that want to get started - we look forward to diving head first into that process come January. The TWL team wishes that you had lovely and refreshing winter or summer solstices, celebrated happy holidays, and took some well-needed breaks. We wish you the best in 2015!
Interested in helping coordinate? Sign up!
In addition to managing account donations, we have more organizational-level positions we want to fill with excited volunteers. Let us know if one of these roles seems like a good fit for you!
Interested in taking on a leadership role with TWL? Sign up!
ALA Midwinter Chicago: TWL and OCLC will host a program (January 31, 2015) giving an overview of what has happened in their partnership over the past year and what is upcoming. On the list is updates from the 2013 ALA midwinter meeting, ALA 2014, Wikimania 2014, our Libraries and Wikipedia webinar, Charleston Conference, CNI conference, our Scholarly editing on Wikipedia webinar, Merrilee Proffitt's introductory sessions with archivists, Wikipedia Visiting Scholar, TWL publisher donations, and work towards a functioning full text reference tool based on the OCLC KnowledgeBase API. We will also have libraries talk about their involvement hosting editors and sharing best practices for working on Wikipedia.
The Wikimedia Grantmaking department, through its Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) and Project and Events Grants (PEG), is funding several library-related projects in 2015. If you've a library-related project you'd like to propose, please do so! Here's a summary of recently approved projects:
The International Standard Serial Number International Centre, apart from their important work assigning unique identifiers to the world's periodical publications, has partnered with UNESCO to provide a powerful new search engine for open access journals, conference proceedings, monographic series and academic repositories. The platform, called ROAD (Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources) combines several existing open access databases into a "one-stop" search engine for open access documents. Those familiar with the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) will see a strong similarity in results for journals, however, ROAD has combined the DOAJ database with a number of other large databases such as Scopus, Linguistics Abstracts, EconLit, Medline, and others.
ROAD offers a pleasant user experience, providing tools like a map-based directory - useful for finding results in your geographical area, and a good advanced search. We encourage editors to poke around!
Last month, the Wikipedia Library announced another round of digital resource access partnerships to the Wikimedia community. These partnerships allow experienced editors in the community and from all around the globe to access research materials behind a paywall in order to advance our goal of creating and sharing a summary of all human knowledge.
One of the longest lasting and most useful donation partnerships has been with journal archive JSTOR, which saw significant participation from non-English editors. We have seen even more participation from around the world as JSTOR expanded their donations, most prominently from languages like German, Spanish, French and Persian. We had expected uptake from the larger Wikimedia communities operating in European languages, but the Persian community pleasantly surprised us.
To find out more, we asked one of our most active Persian editors with a JSTOR account, User:4nn1l2, why he finds the Wikipedia Library important to his work:
4nn1l2, Persian Wikipedia editor
There's lots of great digital library information online. Check out these neat resources for more library exploring.
Thanks for reading! To receive a monthly talk page update about new issues of Books & Bytes, please add your name to the subscriber's list. To suggest items for the next issue, please contact the editor, The Interior ( talk · contribs) at Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/Newsletter/Suggestions.
Books & Bytes
Issue 9, November–December 2014
by
The Interior,
Ocaasi,
Sadads
2014 came to a close with great progress at The Wikipedia Library. We feel we have an amazing core team of organizers fueling the work of a growing number of trusted community volunteer leaders. Our outreach efforts have yielded over twenty resource partners and continue to grow in pace and value. Since announcing the possibility of global Wikipedia Library branches, we have received requests from two dozen communities that want to get started - we look forward to diving head first into that process come January. The TWL team wishes that you had lovely and refreshing winter or summer solstices, celebrated happy holidays, and took some well-needed breaks. We wish you the best in 2015!
Interested in helping coordinate? Sign up!
In addition to managing account donations, we have more organizational-level positions we want to fill with excited volunteers. Let us know if one of these roles seems like a good fit for you!
Interested in taking on a leadership role with TWL? Sign up!
ALA Midwinter Chicago: TWL and OCLC will host a program (January 31, 2015) giving an overview of what has happened in their partnership over the past year and what is upcoming. On the list is updates from the 2013 ALA midwinter meeting, ALA 2014, Wikimania 2014, our Libraries and Wikipedia webinar, Charleston Conference, CNI conference, our Scholarly editing on Wikipedia webinar, Merrilee Proffitt's introductory sessions with archivists, Wikipedia Visiting Scholar, TWL publisher donations, and work towards a functioning full text reference tool based on the OCLC KnowledgeBase API. We will also have libraries talk about their involvement hosting editors and sharing best practices for working on Wikipedia.
The Wikimedia Grantmaking department, through its Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) and Project and Events Grants (PEG), is funding several library-related projects in 2015. If you've a library-related project you'd like to propose, please do so! Here's a summary of recently approved projects:
The International Standard Serial Number International Centre, apart from their important work assigning unique identifiers to the world's periodical publications, has partnered with UNESCO to provide a powerful new search engine for open access journals, conference proceedings, monographic series and academic repositories. The platform, called ROAD (Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources) combines several existing open access databases into a "one-stop" search engine for open access documents. Those familiar with the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) will see a strong similarity in results for journals, however, ROAD has combined the DOAJ database with a number of other large databases such as Scopus, Linguistics Abstracts, EconLit, Medline, and others.
ROAD offers a pleasant user experience, providing tools like a map-based directory - useful for finding results in your geographical area, and a good advanced search. We encourage editors to poke around!
Last month, the Wikipedia Library announced another round of digital resource access partnerships to the Wikimedia community. These partnerships allow experienced editors in the community and from all around the globe to access research materials behind a paywall in order to advance our goal of creating and sharing a summary of all human knowledge.
One of the longest lasting and most useful donation partnerships has been with journal archive JSTOR, which saw significant participation from non-English editors. We have seen even more participation from around the world as JSTOR expanded their donations, most prominently from languages like German, Spanish, French and Persian. We had expected uptake from the larger Wikimedia communities operating in European languages, but the Persian community pleasantly surprised us.
To find out more, we asked one of our most active Persian editors with a JSTOR account, User:4nn1l2, why he finds the Wikipedia Library important to his work:
4nn1l2, Persian Wikipedia editor
There's lots of great digital library information online. Check out these neat resources for more library exploring.
Thanks for reading! To receive a monthly talk page update about new issues of Books & Bytes, please add your name to the subscriber's list. To suggest items for the next issue, please contact the editor, The Interior ( talk · contribs) at Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library/Newsletter/Suggestions.