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In this issue we cover some new resources in the sciences, humanities, religious studies, and a unique library of video content. Our global system of branches expands, a new coordinator joins the ranks, the Visiting Scholar program comes to Wales, and we have news on upcoming conferences. Alex Stinson and Stephen LaPorte talk hashtags in edit summaries as an effective new social tool, and a new citation template for archival holdings is born! As always, we have a roundup of news and community items related to libraries and digital knowledge.

We're excited about four new research partnerships:

• Future Science Group, a publisher of medical, biotechnological and scientific research
• Baylor University Press, a publisher of academic e-books primarily in religious studies and the humanities
• Cambridge University Press, a publisher of academic journals and e-books in a variety of subject areas – this partnership already has a waitlist as available accounts have been claimed
• Alexander Street Press, a collection of academic and news videos.

We are very happy to announce two more global Wikipedia Library branches:

• Portuguese Wikipedia Library
• Polish Wikipedia Library

We'd also like to take this opportunity to highlight the Global Wikipedia Library on Meta. This portal showcases the projects and accomplishments of each of our language branches. New and growing branches also have their own Meta planning pages to coordinate and track their progress, for example: meta:The Wikipedia Library/Portuguese. If you're interested in helping to start a branch on another language Wikipedia, please get in touch! wikipedialibrarywikimedia.org

We would like to welcome Checkingfax as a new account coordinator on our team!

New volunteers are always welcome; help is always needed to manage distribution of accounts or to do other tasks. Many hands make for light work!

We are in particular need of a volunteer for metrics coordination. These volunteers help analyze and report metrics for Wikipedia Library partners and open-access publishers. If you have benefited from a TWL account or are interested in helping out, sign up here.

Alex Stinson, project manager of the global Wikipedia Library program at the WMF, will be attending both the Wikimedia Conference in Berlin and Wikimania in Italy to talk with community leaders about the opportunities for developing branches in more language communities. If you are attending, please get in touch! We will also have a poster presenting the results and impact of the #1lib1ref initiative from last January.

The Wikipedia Library team also reserved a booth at the International Federation of Library Associations conference in Ohio in August. The booth will include updated and internationalized outreach materials from the Library's bookshelf on Meta.

If you want to share some of the library outreach your community is doing at one of these conferences, please email Alex at astinsonwikimedia.org.

As an extension of his Wikipedian in Residence role at the National Library of Wales ( see reports), Jason Evans announced two Visiting Scholar positions – the first ever Wikidata Visiting Scholar filled by User:Sic19 and an application for the first ever Wikipedia Visiting Scholar position outside of North America. The LLGC blog described how the WikiData Visiting Scholar has already engaged in expanding the coverage of library on Wikidata to take advantage of tools like Histropedia.

With much valuable feedback from community members and practicing librarians and archivists, we are happy to announce the activation of a new Wikipedia citation template: {{cite archive}}! Designed to streamline and standardize how archives are cited in Wikipedia, the template can support a variety of uses, from simply citing a finding aid for an archive, to specifying a unique item within folders, fonds, series and other organizational standards. We would like to thank all who contributed to the discussion, and the template experts who did the final coding. As with all things wiki, there is still room for improvement of course. Let your archivist friends and colleagues know about it!

Quarter 3 of the 2015–16 fiscal year ended March 31st. Below is a summary update of how we did with our goals. Click here for the full 3-slides.

It is worth noting that we are always ambitious about our targets, and so we don't always hit them! Also, the WMF had a lot of internal disruption last quarter which explains why our focus was sometimes limited to maintaining core work rather than pushing ahead on new efforts.

One of the way we track our progress is with specifically measurable goals. Below is an update on how we did with our targets this past quarter.

• Bringing the world’s cultural heritage online
• Ghana celebrates 15 years of Wikipedia
• Growing hashtags: Expanding outreach on Wikipedia
• Katherine Maher appointed as interim executive director for the Wikimedia Foundation
• Special:BookSources received a major design change
• Wikimedia CH releases an android app with more than 50,000 Wikipedia articles about medicine
• WikipediansSpeak: Odia Wikisourcer shares her journey and goals

• April 10–16 is National Library Week in the US
• Belmont Forum adopts open data principles for environmental change research
• Budget cuts will have a 'grave impact' on the National Library, staff told
• Combined open access and subscription agreement between Wiley and Dutch universities
• Handful of biologists went rogue and published directly to internet
• India stands for clear and open web
• U.S. Department of Labor adopts CC BY licensing policy department-wide
• U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) releases public access to research plan

• A feminist edit-a-thon seeks to reshape Wikipedia
• Access at risk in Canadian libraries
• AfroCrowd, crowdsourcing on Wikimedia
• Creating an infrastructure for open access
• EUA publishes roadmap on open access
• Few countries ready to adopt gold standard open access to scientific journals
• Four pillars of open access
• Libraries are more than books
• National libraries day; love letters to libraries
• Oxford University Press has announced that some of its collections will be freely available through May or June, including content on tuberculosis, deportation, Hindu-Muslim relations, Zika virus, human reproduction, women in STEM, and Shakespeare
• Science students are writing Wikipedia articles instead of term papers
• Speak up for libraries
• The loss of libraries is another surefire way to entrench inequality
• Who benefits from open access?
• Why Wikipedia matters for women in science
• Women in science on Wikipedia: will we ever fill the information gap?

• More than 20,000 cartographic works are now available for free download from New York Public Library (NYPL)
• The National Library of Wales (NLW) has added 500 photographs of John Thomas to Wikidata (A Wikipedia article on the Welsh photographer John Thomas)

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