The video describes how scholarly articles that are available under an open license can be reused on Wikimedia projects, and how readers can be made aware of that reusability.
For further information, see
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:OPENACCESS .
The video was produced by The Cinematic Syndicate, with contributions from Max Klein (starring, voice, story), Matt Senate (story) and Daniel Mietchen (story).
Image credits:
- Malaria: Image by Ute Frevert; false color by Margaret Shear; plosbiology.org/article/browseIssue.action?issue=info:doi/10.1371/issue.pbio.v03.i06 ; CC BY 2.5 ; via Wikimedia Commons commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Malaria.jpg
- Night view: flickr.com/photos/kabacchi/4836491164/ by [flickr.com/people/36197880@N03 Kabacchi]; CC BY 2.0; via Wikimedia Commons commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yokohama_China_Town_Night_View_-_16_%284836491164%29.jpg
- Open Access logo: art designer at PLoS, modified by Wikipedia users Nina, Beao, and JakobVoss ; CC0 ; via Wikimedia Commons ; commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Open_Access_logo_PLoS_transparent.svg
- Open Access article: Taylor SM, Cerami C, Fairhurst RM (2013) Hemoglobinopathies: Slicing the Gordian Knot of Plasmodium falciparum Malaria Pathogenesis. PLoS Pathogen 9(5): e1003327. dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003327 ; CC0 ; Figure 1 available from Wikimedia Commons commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hemoglobinopathies_and_the_pathogenesis_of_Plasmodium_falciparum_malaria_-_Journal.ppat.1003327.g001.png
Painting "Scuola di Atene" by Raphael (1511); Public Domain ; via Wikimedia Commons commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sanzio_01.jpg
- Music: Severed Triangles, by Andrey Avkhimovich ; CC BY 3.0 ; jamendo.com/en/track/763459/severed-triangles
Screenshots from
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria
and
tools.wmflabs.org/cite-o-meter/?doip=10.1371 .
The video is also available from Wikimedia Commons via
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reusing_Open_Access_materials_on_Wikimedia_projects.ogv .