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The Open Access Button
Joe McArthur - @Mcarthur_JoeAssistant Director, Right to Research CoalitionCo-founder and Co-Lead of the Open Access
Button
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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
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Professor Randy SchekmanNobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
2013.
Sander DekkerState Secretary, Dutch Ministry
of Education, Culture and Science.
Professor Stephen Curry
The Guardian
“The use of the Open Access
Button will help more people to find research
papers.”
“I am even more impressed by the Open
Access Button, a genuinely grass-roots initiative developed by
two students.”
“Tools like the Open Access Button can help catalyse
change and create a world where science has more
impact, is more efficient and importantly available to
everyone.”
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Around the world
Talks given in:AustraliaBrazilFranceGermanyGreeceIndiaNepalNigeriaPakistanSouth AfricaSouth KoreaTaiwanTanzaniaTurkeyUKUSA
Team based in:AustraliaCanadaCosta RicaFranceGermanyItalyMexicoSouth AfricaThe NetherlandsUK (England, Northern Ireland, Wales)USA
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Communications
4,034twitter
followers
2,119Facebook
likes
1,287,211Thunderclap
reach
In London, during Open Access Week, we packed a room with over 40 people for the Button’s launch and livestreamed it to 150 more. For the launch and other events, we were privileged to have Open Access Button talks all over the globe, a selection of which can be found on our map.
This was accompanied by fantastic press coverage including: Huffington Post, VentureBeat, Creative Commons, EFF, The Varsity and Scientific American Blogs.
In addition, during Open Access Week, we took part in a reddit AMA alongside EFF, Creative Commons, the Right to Research Coalition and Fundacion Karisma.
35,000+Blog hits
Above: Roshan Karn speaking about the Open Access Button in Nepal (photo credit: Iryna Kuchma).
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With Thanks To
Cottage LabsOpen Society Foundations
Jisc Right to Research Coalition
Medsin
For everyone, head to openaccessbutton.org/about#thanks
Mozilla SciencePLOS
CrowdfundersContent Mine
SPARC
The team, friends, family and partners
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Co-leads and Co-foundersDavid CarrollMedical student. Belfast, Northern IrelandJoe McArthurAssistant Director, Right to Research Coalition. London, England.Georgina Taylor Medical and Arts student. Hobart, Australia.
CommunicationsDave Bennett (Coordinator)PhD student. London, England.Margaux Larre-PerezPhD Student. Paris, France.Megan WaplesMLIS Student. London, England.Lydia ZvyagintsevaGraduate student in Digital Humanities and Library and Information Studies. Alberta, Canada.Alexandra GiannopoulouPhD Law Student, Universite Paris II Pantheon AssasJess WarrenMA Publishing, University of Sydney
Community and AdvocacyReshma Ramachandran (Coordinator)MD/MPP Student. Providence, USA.Sarah Melton (Coordinator)PhD Student. Atlanta, USA.
Consultation and PartnershipsMinuette Le (Coordinator)Researcher, Leuphana Universitaet. Berlin, Germany.
Funding Natalia NororiMedical student. San Jose, Costa Rica.Joseph PaulBiology Student. North Carolina, USA.
LaunchChealsye Bowley (Coordinator)Master of Library and Information Studies, and MSc in Science, Technology and Society. Florence, Italy and London, UK.
Strategy LeadPenny Andrews
SecretariesLuke BarnesMolecular Biology student. Cardiff, WalesJuan López-TaveraMedical student. Mexico.Natalie CatherwoodMedical student. Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Technology TeamMartin BentleyGeology/computing science MSc student. Port Elizabeth, South Africa.Rigel Hope
Past MembersHeidi DowdingJim McGrathRachael PattonFabian FalkenbachSucheta Tiwari
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Moving forwards
• How best can we connect people with available literature after hitting a paywall?
• A paywall can be a spark for change.
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How to connect people with work post-paywall
• Currently, jarring and unwelcoming
• We must think about designing ways to help readers find work behind paywalls
• Can we connect them to other resources?
• Paywalls are here to stay
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Using paywalls to make change
•Emailing Authors
•Local organising
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Paywall Stories
Pediatric Intensive Care in South Africa: An Account of Making Optimum Use of Limited Resources at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital* “I am developing the PCCM curricula at the University of Rwanda.” (doctor)
“I was researching on Open Collaboration - a concept that will help me in structuring my venture - a co-creation community for high school graduates. This paper suggests a documentation of principles that would be useful to create structure. Clearly, I can't access it coz it has a pay per article paywall.” (undisclosed)
“understand my disease better.” (student)
“to compare our own research results with those reported in this paper.” (academic)
“Databases embargo the last 12 months of this journal, so we can't obtain a copy for a student.” (librarian)
Milestones in cell division : To cycle or not to cycle: a critical decision in cancer “I am researching the background for my PhD thesis, which is in an area of importance to human health (cancer biology) “ (student)
Document supply of grey literature and open access: ten years later “Article about my area of work (open access) that is closed access :(“ (librarian)
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