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This Month in GLAM – Volume II, Issue XII, December 2012

Open Access report

1 year Open Access File of the Day

On December 1, the Open Access File of the Day initiative turned one year. Since December 2011, a file originating from an open access source has been posted on a daily basis, the only exception being January 18, 2012, when a copy of the Research Works Act article served as Open Access File of the Day for the duration of the SOPA blackout. During the first year, the main prerequisite for a file to be featured this way was that it be used at least twice across Wikimedia projects outside user space, and on the occasion of the anniversary, that criterion was raised to a usage of three times or more.

About 400 files have been posted so far, originating from some 40 journals, half of which are published by BioMed Central. The most frequent sources of the files were PLOS Biology (136 files), PLOS ONE (76) and ZooKeys (40).

According to BaGLAMa (see also the Tool testing report), these 400 files gathered a total of 10 million page views in December 2012, which is almost half of the 23 million for the entire category Open access (publishing), home to about 15,000 files (two thirds of which have been uploaded over the last few months by the Open Access Media Importer.

On the occasion of the anniversary, this issue of the Open Access report ends with a listing of not only the files featured in December 2012 but also those early ones featured in December 2011, when no Open Access Report was compiled that they could have been included in.

Articles started this month

Growth of the number of open access repositories indexed in ROAR.

According to TreeViews, 30 articles on OA topics have been started this month across languages, including

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.

WikiProject Open Access

The following news from WikiProject Open Access have been posted this month:

The distal phalanx of a thumb rotates.

December 30: A video of a distal phalanx of a thumb of an ancient hominid, Orrorin tugenensis, is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originally published in PLOS ONE in 2010 and uploaded to Commons by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page, video, Distal phalanx article, Thumb article, Orrorin tugenensis article.

A coral spawns.

December 27: A video of a Pocillopora meandrina coral in the fringing reef off Lizard Island, Australia, is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originally published in PLOS ONE last week and uploaded to Commons by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page, video, Pocillopora meandrina article, Fringing reef article, Lizard Island article.

A pine tree reorients its shoots upwards when placed at an inclined position.

December 23: A video of a Maritime Pine demonstrating gravitropism is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originally published in BMC Plant Biology in 2010 and recently uploaded to Commons by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page, video, Maritime Pine article, Gravitropism article.

Three frog embryos of different genetic background develop.

December 10: A video of developing Xenopus laevis embryos (haploid, diploid and cybrid) is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originally published in PLOS Biology in 2011 and recently uploaded to Commons by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. One of the authors of that paper was John Gurdon, who is to receive this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine today, along with Shinya Yamanaka, for their work on stem cell therapy. Traffic stats: Main Page, video, Xenopus laevis article, haploid article, diploid article, cybrid article, John Gurdon article, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine article, Shinya Yamanaka article, stem cell therapy article.
December 9: Open Access report in the November 2012 issue of This month in GLAM. Traffic stats.

A single cardiomyocyte beating, five days after purification from cell culture.

December 9: A video of a single cardiomyocyte beating, five days after purification from cell culture, is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originally published in PLOS ONE in 2011 and recently uploaded to Commons by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. One of the authors of that paper was Shinya Yamanaka, who is to receive this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine tomorrow, along with John Gurdon, for their work on stem cell therapy. Traffic stats: Main Page, single cardiomyocyte beating, five days after purification from cell culture.ogv video, Cardiac muscle article, Shinya Yamanaka article, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine article, John Gurdon article, stem cell therapy article.

A pregnant bull shark swimming by.

December 3: A video of a pregnant bull shark at the Shark Reef Marine Reserve, Fiji, is featured on the Main Page of Wikimedia Commons under Media of the Day. It was originally published in PLOS ONE in 2011 and recently uploaded to Commons by the Open Access Media Importer Bot. Traffic stats: Main Page, video, Bull shark article, Fiji article.
December 1: The Open Access File of the Day turns one year.

Open Access File of the Day

The following files have been featured as Open Access File of the Day in December 2011 and December 2012:

2011

31 December: Salamanders are a model system for the study of limb regeneration.
30 December: Anatomy of the human ear – editable version.
29 December: Bradypodion taeniabronchum on the watch.
28 December: A lissencephalic human brain.
27 December: Tyrannosaurus with skin infection.
26 December: Leaf mines by Phyllocnistis hyperpersea larvae.
25 December: Chlorobalius leucoviridis mimicking the song of its prey.
24 December: The production and diffusion of nitric oxide (NO) (white) in the cytoplasm (green) of clusters of conifer cells one hour after mechanical agitation.
23 December: A male Oligoxystre diamantinensis.
22 December: Mimicry in Heliconius butterflies.
21 December: A sow with suckling pigs.
20 December: The chromosomes of a women.
19 Dec 2011: Rice terraces in the Philippines.
18 December: Baltimartyria rasnitsyni.
17 December: Pomacea canaliculata eggs.
16 December: Bee waggle dance.
15 December: Shimmering bees drive hornet away.
14 December: Northwest Crown Fire Experiments in Canada.
13 December: HIV on macrophage.
12 December: The sea slug Pleurobranchaea meckelii.
11 December: A bat in flight.
10 December: Samples in a seedbank.
9 December: Chalcolithic leather shoe from the Areni-1 cave.
8 December: Soft tissue reconstruction of the Longdan tiger.
7 December: Qualia of sound.
6 December: Burying behaviour of an adult sandfish (Scincus scincus).
5 December: Genetic subdivision in the giraffe based on mitochondrial DNA sequences.
4 December: Apertural view of the snail Rapana venosa.
3 December: Genome of Arthrobacter arilaitensis.
2 December: A Giant Haasts eagle attacking a New Zealand moa.
1 December: Actenoides concretus.

2012

December 31: Ocular fundus aspect of retinoblastoma
December 30: spawning Pocillopora meandrina
December 29: A silvery mole rat.
December 28: Achelousaurus nasal openings
December 27: Example of a Scan for quantitative trait loci on a single chromosome
December 26: A Galápagos tortoise.
December 25: Fruiting bodies of the slime bacterium Myxococcus xanthus.
December 24: Electron microscopy of Prochlorococcus
December 23: Kent distribution of three point sets representing bond angle relations in a protein backbone.
December 22: The tiger beetle Omus dejeanii.
December 21: expression of FABP7 in mouse brains
December 20: Mycosphaerella graminicola chromosomes
December 19: Diplodocoidea cladogram
December 18: Drawing of Rhinopithecus strykeri
December 17: Rostral migratory stream of a mouse
December 16: Cataglyphis fortis experiencing head-wind on a slippery substrate
December 15: Clytus arietes
December 14:Atelopus franciscus male territorial call
December 13: The mushroom Boletopsis nothofagi.
December 12: Alec Jeffreys
December 11: The modern Emu (centre) and extinct King Island Emu (right) with human outline shown approximately to scale.
December 10: Blenniella gibbifrons jumping
December 9: Ebolavirus particles
December 8: Ankylosaurus tail terminology
December 7: Structural organization of the heart of the mosquito Anopheles gambiae
December 6: A Magicicada chorus.
December 5: Adélie Penguins.
December 4: Anodonthyla (frog) feet
December 3: The animal with the longest valid scientific name: the soldier fly Parastratiosphecomyia sphecomyioides.
December 2: Burrunan Dolphin jumping
December 1: Larvae of Culex mosquitoes.