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Joe Mcarthur - @Mcarthur Joe Assistant Director, Right to Research Coalition Co-Founder and Co-Lead of the Open Access Button Barriers and Impact Joe McArthur - @Mcarthur_Joe Assistant Director, Right to Research Coalition Co-founder and Co-Lead of the Open Access Button openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button These slides, videos and more: bit.ly/OI9OAB openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button 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 openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Todays talk Barriers and impact for: •the Open Access Button; •Open Access. openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button How the Button Works openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Desktop App Mobile App openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Mobile Login openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Mobile Follow the instructions openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Mobile Menu openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Mobile Do some research .. browser openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Mobile Hit paywall openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Mobile FAQ bit openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Web Hit paywall openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button The Firefox Web App openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Web openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Web Same image, circled button image openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Web openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Web Click wishlist. openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Web Story openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button 2 years openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Insert team photo from jan meeting openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Make Progress. openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button “Tools like the Open Access “The use of the “I am even more impressed Button can help catalyse change Open Access by the Open Access Button, a and create a world where science Button will help genuinely grass-roots has more impact, is more efficient more people to find initiative developed by two and importantly available to research papers.” students.” everyone.” Professor Randy Schekman Professor Stephen Curry Sander Dekker Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine The Guardian State Secretary, Dutch Ministry of 2013. Education, Culture and Science. Website: openaccessbutton.org Email: [email protected] 30 openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Annual Report 2014 Push Button. Get Research. Make Progress. openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Talks given in: Team based in: Australia Australia Brazil Canada Around the world France Costa Rica Germany France Greece Germany India Italy Nepal Mexico Nigeria South Africa Pakistan The Netherlands South Africa UK (England, South Korea Northern Ireland, Taiwan Wales) Tanzania USA Turkey UK USA Website: openaccessbutton.org Email: [email protected] 32 openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Communications 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 Above: Roshan Karn speaking about the Open Access Coalition and Fundacion Karisma. Button in Nepal (photo credit: Iryna Kuchma). 35,000+ 4,034 2,119 1,287,211 Blog hits twitter Facebook Thunderclap followers likes reach Website: openaccessbutton.org Email: [email protected] 33 openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Fuelling Advocacy - Diego openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button SPARC Innovators openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button With Thanks To The team, friends, family and partners Cottage Labs Mozilla Science Open Society Foundations PLOS Jisc Crowdfunders Right to Research Coalition Content Mine Medsin SPARC For everyone, head to openaccessbutton.org/about#thanks openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Co-leads and Co-founders Community and Advocacy Secretaries David Carroll Reshma Ramachandran Luke Barnes Medical student. Belfast, Northern Ireland (Coordinator) Molecular Biology student. Joe McArthur MD/MPP Student. Providence, USA. Cardiff, Wales Assistant Director, Right to Research Sarah Melton (Coordinator) Juan López-Tavera Coalition. London, England. PhD Student. Atlanta, USA. Medical student. Mexico. Georgina Taylor Natalie Catherwood Medical and Arts student. Hobart, Australia. Consultation and Partnerships Medical student. Belfast, Minuette Le (Coordinator) Northern Ireland. Researcher, Leuphana Universitaet. Communications Berlin, Germany. Technology Team Dave Bennett (Coordinator) Martin Bentley PhD student. London, England. Funding Geology/computing science Margaux Larre-Perez Natalia Norori MSc student. Port Elizabeth, PhD Student. Paris, France. Medical student. San Jose, Costa South Africa. Megan Waples Rica. Rigel Hope MLIS Student. London, England. Joseph Paul Lydia Zvyagintseva Biology Student. North Carolina, Past Members Graduate student in Digital Humanities and USA. Heidi Dowding Library and Information Studies. Alberta, Jim McGrath Launch Canada. Rachael Patton Chealsye Bowley (Coordinator) Alexandra Giannopoulou Fabian Falkenbach Master of Library and Information PhD Law Student, Universite Paris II Sucheta Tiwari Studies, and MSc in Science, Pantheon Assas Technology and Society. Florence, Jess Warren Italy and London, UK. MA Publishing, University of Sydney 37 Strategy Lead Penny Andrews openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Big challenges lie ahead openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Moving forwards • How best can we connect people with available literature after hitting a paywall? • A paywall can be a spark for change. openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button 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 openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Using paywalls to make change •Emailing Authors •Local organising openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Paywall Stories “understand my disease better.” (student) “Databases embargo the last 12 months of this journal, so we can't obtain a copy for a student.” (librarian) Pediatric Intensive Care in South Africa: An Account of Making Milestones in cell division : To cycle or not to Optimum Use of Limited Resources at the Red Cross War cycle: a critical decision in cancer “I am Memorial Children’s Hospital* “I am developing the PCCM researching the background for my PhD thesis, curricula at the University of Rwanda.” (doctor) which is in an area of importance to human health (cancer biology) “ (student) “I was researching on Open Collaboration - a concept that will help me in structuring my venture - a co-creation community “to compare our own research results with for high school graduates. This paper suggests a those reported in this paper.” (academic) 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) Document supply of grey literature and open access: ten years later “Article about my area of work (open access) that is closed access :(“ (librarian) openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Big challenges lie ahead openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button But the next generation is helping face them. openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Our Community Webcast series informs and engages the growing OpenCon community by showcasing an individual, project, or success story each month openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Join the Community: OpenCon2015.org/community/discussion openaccessbutton.orgOpenCon2015.org/community/calls@OA_Button How you can support • Help us reach more students and early career researchers • Help support students and early career researchers to attend the meeting. openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Sponsors Presenting Sponsors Webcast Sponsors openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Questions? These slides, videos and more: bit.ly/OI9OAB openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button.
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