Article: “Contributing Open Citations to Wikipedia: An OA Week OAbot Edit-A-Thon”

The following article was published in InULA Notes published by the Indiana University Librarians Association.
Title
Contributing Open Citations to Wikipedia: An OA Week OAbot Edit-A-Thon
Authors
Mairelys Lemus-Rojas
IUPUI
Jere D. Odell
IUPUI
Source

InULA Notes
29(2) Fall 2017

via IUPUI Scholarworks (Institutional Repository).
http://hdl.handle.net/1805/15010

From the Article:

The OAbot, hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation Labs, extracts an existing citation from a Wikipedia article and presents the user with that citation and a potential link to an open version of the same article. These open version links are extracted from sources including CrossRef, BASE, DOAI, and others.

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As librarians, editing Wikipedia articles gives us an opportunity to use the “Open in Order to” concept to build a better information source for information users, near and far. Providing access to freely accessible sources ensures that everyone, given the right circumstances, can retrieve and use that information. The library community is also interested in taking steps to make Wikipedia a more reliable and verifiable encyclopedia. At the IUPUI University Library, we decided to make our contribution to this effort by using the OAbot during Open Access Week to find free online versions of sources to be included in already existing Wikipedia citations.

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