Opentech London 2015
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Opentech London 2015
- 1. Joe McArthur - @Mcarthur_Joe Assistant Director, Right to Research Coalition Co-founder and Co-Lead of the Open Access Button Open Access Research and code
- 2. www.sparc.arl.org These slides, videos and more: bit.ly/OABOpenTech
- 3. Launched in Summer 2009. Built around the Student Statement on the Right to Research: access to research is a student right International alliance of 77 graduate & undergraduate student organizations, representing nearly 7 million students We Educate + Advocate for Open Access
- 5. Average journal price in Chemistry: Biology = $2,520 Geography = $1,308 Physics = $3,870 = $4,215 www.sparc.arl.org 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/#_
- 6. -25% 25% 75% 125% 175% 225% 275% 325% 375% 425% 1986 1989 1992 1995 1998 2001 2004 2007 2010 %ChangeSince1986 Source: ARL Statistics 2010-11 Association of Research Libraries, Washington, D.C. *Includes electronic resources from 1999-2000 onward. Graph 2 Monograph and Serial Costs in ARL Libraries, 1986-2011* Serial Expenditures (+402%) Monograph Expenditures (+71%) Monographs Purchased (10%) www.sparc.arl.org
- 7. 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/21552574 www.sparc.arl.org
- 8. www.righttoresearch.org Publishing is big business… www.sparc.arl.org
- 10. 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 1 www.sparc.arl.org
- 11. Free, immediate online access to scientific & scholarly articles with full reuse rights Budapest Open Access Initiative www.sparc.arl.org
- 12. Figure available at http://www.science-metrix.com/pdf/SM_EC_OA_Availability_2004-2011.pdf www.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe Joe@righttoresearch.org
- 13. “Open” in science vs Open Source www.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe Joe@righttoresearch.org
- 14. www.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe Joe@righttoresearch.org Code as science Code for science
- 15. 1. Code as a research object www.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe Joe@righttoresearch.org
- 16. Open Science www.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe Joe@righttoresearch.org
- 17. Sharing code is essential from reproducibility. www.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe Joe@righttoresearch.org
- 18. 1. http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124#s8, 2. retractionwatch.com 3. www.nature.com/news/first-results-from-psychology-s-
- 19. www.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe Joe@righttoresearch.org More here: http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/5/181/181 ra50
- 20. www.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe Joe@righttoresearch.org From: www.nature.com/news/code-share-1.16232 and www.mozillascience.org/projects/codemeta
- 21. 2. Uber for X? www.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe Joe@righttoresearch.org
- 22. 2. Uber for Science? www.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe Joe@righttoresearch.org
- 26. When you can’t access papers, get research and make progress with new apps from openaccessbutton.org
- 28. How the Button Works
- 30. Web Mobile at Openaccessbutton.org Download for: Mozilla Firefox Google Chrome Android Bookmarklet The Button now…
- 31. Science needs more open tools www.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe Joe@righttoresearch.org
- 32. Science needs more open developers www.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe Joe@righttoresearch.org
- 33. Science needs more open developers www.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe Joe@righttoresearch.org
- 34. Science needs more open developers Github.com/oabutton @oa_button Joe@righttoresearch.org www.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe Joe@righttoresearch.org
- 35. Thank you! Joe@righttoresearch.org or @Mcarthur_Joe This slides, videos and more: bit.ly/OABOpenTech