The document discusses the benefits of open scholarship and open access as a student. It advocates publishing theses, posters, and other works openly to get more citations and credit. It recommends using platforms like GitHub for open source code, Publons and F1000Research for open peer review, and Creative Commons licenses to openly license work while retaining rights. The document argues open scholarship promotes freedom, equality, fairness and progress in research.

1. Being Open as a Student
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2. Why do I care about Open
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5. Tell me how this is progressing things.
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Consequences?

6. Sound familiar?
•Artificial scarcity
•Pay for access
•Only the privileged can afford
•Dominated by corporations
•Business model is defined by preventing
access

7. How to do Open Access
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Traditional publishing:
Not great
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8. How to do Open Access
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Credit: Hilda Bastian

9. How to do Open Data
•Publish anything
•Theses
•Posters
•More citations/credit
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10. How to do Open Peer Review
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• Publons, F1000
Research, ScienceOpen
• Why bother?
• Own your work!
• Get credit

11. How to do
Open Code
•GitHub
•Version
control
•Make your
life easier
•Reproducible
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12. Open licensing
•Default: no rights for anyone
•Publish openly and keep your rights!
•CC BY: Anyone can reuse, share, and re-
mix with attribution
•CC 0 for data
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13. The importance of science communication
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14. Why does it
all matter?
•Freedom
•Equality
•Fairness
•Progress
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15. Be Open: Be proud
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Knowledge is
empowering
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16. Credit: Michael Eisen