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Joe McArthur - @Mcarthur_Joe Assistant Director, Right to Research Coalition Co-founder and Co-Lead of the Open Access Button People leading the charge for Open.
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Joe McArthur - @Mcarthur_JoeAssistant Director, Right to Research CoalitionCo-founder and Co-Lead of the Open Access Button
People leading the charge for Open.
Launched in Summer 2009.
Built around the Student Statementon the Right to Research: access toresearch is a student right
International alliance of 77 graduate &undergraduate student organizations,representing nearly 7 million students
We Educate + Advocate for Open Access
www.righttoresearch.org@[email protected]
These slides and much, much more here:
www.righttoresearch.org/learn/Open-Knowledge-Belgium
25 leading universitiesranked by their Open Access policies and free access outputs
www.righttoresearch.org
1,000+ Congressional lobbying visits over the past 4.5 years
i) confirms the importance of students having access to research journals and articles as part of their training;
ii) notes the high cost to institutions and individuals when accessing scholarly literature;
iii) proposes that this could hinder medical students in their development as ‘The Doctor as the Scientist’ as well as developing an evidence based clinical approach;
iv) welcomes and endorses the Right To Research Coalition’s statement on Open Access to research literature.
www.righttoresearch.org
June 25, 2012
Students pushscholarly and professional societies to adopt Open Access stances
www.righttoresearch.org
Students lead public discourse through op-ed, petitions, slogans and on campus action
Open Access Challenge
Image courtesy of Uvania Naidoo – Available at http://www.righttoresearch.org/blog/openucts-access-challenge.shtml
• Challenge students to find research
with and without uni access
• Shows people how hard it is to get
access
More info at http://www.righttoresearch.org/blog/openucts-access-challenge.shtml
www.sparc.arl.org
New organizationslead the discussion around Open Access nationally and locally
www.sparc.arl.org
Pioneering new technologywith the Content Mine system
Panton Authors and Fellows
Jenny Molloy
Ross Mounce
Sam Moore Peter Kraker Rosie Gray
Sophie Kay
Slide adapted from Peter Murry Rust (OpenCon, Washington, 2014-11-15)
www.righttoresearch.org
½ of med students in 1 weekthat’s how many students a group can educate in a week
www.righttoresearch.org
From campus to continentOpen Access week started with students on campus, now a international event.
www.sparc.arl.org
Students in top publishersTwo innovative Open Access Publishers put early career researchers on their boards.
When you can’t access papers, get research and make progress with new apps from openaccessbutton.org
Web Mobile
atOpenaccessbutton.org
Download for:
Mozilla FirefoxGoogle ChromeAndroidBookmarklet
The Button now…
How the Button Works
www.righttoresearch.org
“…the degree of student initiative and engagement at UBC gives this issue a whole new impetus.”
www.righttoresearch.org@[email protected]
Who are some other movers and shakers? • PASTEUR4OA
Co-ordinating policy across the EU• OpenAire
• Connecting repositories across the EU• FOSTOR
Educating researchers in the EU about Open Access• Publishers as thought leaders
PLOS, PeerJ, Ubiquity, Frontiers, eLife, Figshare• NGO’s as thought leaders
Wikipedia, Open Knowledge, SPARC, Creative Commons, EIFL
• Funders as thought leadersWellcome Trust, EU Commission, Max Planck
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Thank you!
[email protected] or @Mcarthur_Joe
My slides, videos and morewww.righttoresearch.org/learn/Open-Knowledge-Belgium
