Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Physics/Archive December 2014

"Nature" free articles

I noticed this "Nature makes all articles free to view" which allows those that are subscribed to give a read-only PDF to people who are not subscribed. This should be helpful with the paywalled Nature papers that articles use for references, as the free-access PDF can be used as the URL link -- 67.70.35.44 (talk) 14:15, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

Incidentally, does anyone know how to use http://libgen.org that one of the commentators mentioned as an alternate? -- 67.70.35.44 (talk) 14:15, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

Are you sure that they intend to allow potentially millions of people to read these copies rather than just a few friends/coworkers of the subscriber? JRSpriggs (talk) 01:24, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

Well, the "Nature" subheadline says Publisher permits subscribers and media to share read-only versions of its papers. It would depend on if Wikipedia is covered by "media" or not. -- 67.70.35.44 (talk) 09:52, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

sklogwiki.org

Hi! A problem has come to light with sklogwiki.org, from which content has been copied in good faith, and with proper attribution, into several articles here: content on that wiki is licensed CC-BY-NC-SA, which unfortunately is not compatible here. I've had to remove content from Path integral molecular dynamics (there's some discussion on the talk page there), and have found similar incompatibilities at Andersen thermostat, Stockmayer potential and Patchy particles. All those articles need to be rewritten (if the topics are important): I don't know if other pages are also affected. I did wonder, though, if a simpler approach might be to ask sklogwiki to remove the "NC" ("non-commercial") restriction from its license, which would solve the problem; and if anyone here would like to undertake to do that? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 00:13, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

It's not so simple to "ask sklogwiki". You'd have to ask every single contributor to all the articles in question to release their work under an additional license. And if you don't manage to do that for all of sklogwiki, you'd have to make clear to their editors and readers what's released under which license(s). I think rewriting our articles is the easier route. — HHHIPPO 07:43, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

Magnetic skyrmion

Hi, I have been doing a bit of gnoming and came across Magnetic skyrmion. It is not in a good state, citations, etc. This is beyond my ken, so I am bringing it to some expert attention here. Hamish59 (talk) 12:29, 5 December 2014 (UTC)