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How Open Science can transform research & innovation
Joe McArthur (@R2RC)Assistant Director, Right to Research CoalitionCo-founder, Open Access Button
UAEM EU Conference, BerlinApril 30 & May 1st, 2016
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
This Workshop:URL HERE
These slides: RESOURCE HERE
(CC-BY means you can do what you want with these slides, just attribute me)
In this Workshop• Why is information important? • What’s Open Research and
Education?• Why should UAEM care? • How do you be open?• Q/A• What you can do to help
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DISCUSS:Why is access to
information important?
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What is Open Research and
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The way we do research and education is currently:
1.Too expensive2.Unfair3.Ignorant of the internet
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Average journal price in Chemistry:
Biology
= $2,520
Geography
= $1,308
Physics
= $3,870
= $4,215
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Source: Library Journal 2014 Periodicals Pricing Survey“Steps Down the Evolutionary Road | Periodicals Price Survey 2014,” by Stephen Bosch and Kittie Henderson. Library Journal, April 11, 2014: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/04/publishing/steps-down-the-evolutionary-road-periodicals-price-survey-2014/#_
80% of research is publicly funded
Source: “Academic Publishing: Survey of funders supports the benign Open Access outcome priced into shares, HSBC Global Research,” February 11, 2013: https://www.research.hsbc.com/midas/Res/RDV?ao=20&key=RxArFbnG1P&n=360010.PDF
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Graph 2 Monograph and Serial Costs in ARL Libraries, 1986-2011*
Source: ARL Statistics 2010-11 Association of Research Libraries, Washington, D.C.*Includes electronic resources from 1999-2000 onward.
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Publishing obscure academic journals is that rare thing in the media industry: “a licence to print money.”
Source: The Economist, “Open Sesame,” April 14, 2012: http://www.economist.com/node/21552574www.sparc.arl.org
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Publishing is big business…39%
Source: “Elsevier STM publishing profits rise to 39%” http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2014/03/elsevier-stm-publishing-profits-rise-to.htmlwww.sparc.arl.org
Is there a reason publishing
should be this expensive?
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http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1200www.sparc.arl.org
Does our publishing system
what we entrust to distribute the knowledge we work so hard to create
share our values?
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Closedacademic publishingbreaks the Internet
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We can do better.
Slide credit: Nicole Allen
Free, immediate online access to scientific & scholarly articles
with full reuse rightsBudapest Open Access Initiative
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Students can’t learn from materials they can’t afford
Slide credit: Nicole Allen
Market Failure
Slide credit: Nicole Allen
OPEN EDUCATIONALRESOURCES
Slide credit: Nicole Allen
Hewlett Foundation Definition:“OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or are released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others”
Slide credit: Nicole Allen
Hewlett Foundation Definition:“OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or are released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and repurposing by others”
Slide credit: Nicole Allen
DISCUSS:Why should UAEM
care?
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The IP pie
Copyright Trademarks
PatentsOther
How do you be open
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Questions and Answers
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How can you help?
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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.
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June 25, 2012
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1,000+ Congressional lobbying visits over the past 5+ years
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UAEM REPORT CARD
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200,000+ viewsbit.ly/OAexplained
Be Open yourself
(What Jon said)
On your campus• Get your campus to sign DORA• Get your campus an Open Access & Data
Policy• Talk to your professors, librarians and
administrators about Open Research and Education
• And much much more – you’re powerful
You can do lots of stuff, where should
you start?
Sign up for updates at OpenCon2016.org/attend
Previous OpenCon Speakers Included:
• Director of Legislative Affairs for the President of the United States
• Jimmy Wales, Co-Founder of Wikipedia
• Associate Director for Data Science, U.S. National Institutes of Health
• Co-founder(s), PLOS
www.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joeJoe@righttoresearch.org
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Hold a satellite eventOpenCon2016.org/satellite
Thank you! Joe@righttoresearch.org or @Mcarthur_Joe
This Workshop:URL HERE
My slides: RESOURCE HERE
Jon’s Slides
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