Submissions:2016/Source Needed: Wikipedia and the Open Access Movement

Title

Source Needed: Wikipedia and the Open Access Movement

Theme

advocacy & outreach, community

Academic Peer Review option

N

Type of submission

presentation

Author

Megan Wacha

E-mail address

megan.wacha@gmail.com

Username

Megs

Affiliation

City University of New York (CUNY), Wikimedia NYC

Abstract

Imagine a world in which every single person is given free access not just to the sum of all human knowledge, but to its parts as well. Over the course of the last year, commercial publishers have strengthened their monopoly on the knowledge economy. But what steps can the Wikipedia community take to change this system? This presentation will address the relationship between Wikipedia and the open access movement, as well as detail recent developments in the infrastructure of scholarly publishing and its implication for Wikipedia and Wikipedians, particularly as it relates to the gender gap and other efforts to increase the representation of marginalized peoples.

Length of presentation

25-30 mins (this includes time for discussion)

Special schedule requests

Preferred room size

25

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Yes!

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