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Joe McArthur - @Mcarthur_Joe

Assistant Director, Right to Research Coalition

Co-founder and Co-Lead of the Open Access Button

Taking control of the

publishing system you will

inherit

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

25 leading universitiesranked by their Open Access policies

and free access outputs

www.righttoresearch.org

1,000+ Congressional lobbying visits

over the past 4.5 years

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.


June 25, 2012

Students pushscholarly and professional societies to

adopt Open Access stances


Students lead public discourse through op-ed, petitions, slogans and

on campus action

Open Access

Challenge

Image courtesy of Uvania Naidoo – Available at http://www.righttoresearch.org/blog/openucts-access-challenge.shtml

• Challenge students to

find research with and

without uni access

• Shows people how

hard it is to get access

More info at http://www.righttoresearch.org/blog/openucts-access-

challenge.shtml

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New organizationslead the discussion around Open

Access nationally and locally


½ of med students in 1 weekthat’s how many students a group can

educate in a week


From campus to continentOpen Access week started with students on

campus, now a international event.

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Students in top publishersTwo innovative Open Access Publishers put

early career researchers on their boards.

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www.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe [email protected]

10+ lightening talks

from new projects

When you can’t access papers, get research and

make progress with new apps from openaccessbutton.org

Web Mobile

at

Openaccessbutton.org

Download for:

Mozilla Firefox

Google Chrome

Android

Bookmarklet

The Button now…

How the Button Works


“…the degree of student initiative and

engagement at UBC gives this issue

a whole new impetus.”


Image licensed CC-BY ND v2.0 by Tambako The Jaguar at https://www.flickr.com/photos/tambako/3689136427

A Tale of Two Announcements

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Data: European Commission Report: “Proportion of Open Access Papers Published in Peer-Reviewed Journals at the European and

World Levels—1996–2013; URL: http://science-metrix.com/en/publications/reports#/en/publications/reports/proportion-of-open-access-

papers-published-in-peer-reviewed-journals-at-the

Graph: http://blogs.nature.com/news/2014/10/more-than-half-of-2007-2012-research-articles-now-free-to-read.html

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Source: blogs.nature.com/news/2014/11/gates-foundation-announces-worlds-strongest-policy-on-open-access-research.html

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Source:

http://www.nature.com/news/nature-

makes-all-articles-free-to-view-

1.16460

*

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Source:

http://www.nature.com/news/nature-

makes-all-articles-free-to-view-

1.16460

*“Beggar

Access”- Ross Mouncehttp://rossmounce.co.uk/2014/12/02/beggar-access/

Source: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141202/11073029297/nature-drops-its-paywall-replaces-it-with-insane-anti-research-

proprietary-drm.shtml

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Which future do we want?

Immediate Open Access with full

reuse rights

or

“Free” access through a closed,

proprietary platform with DRM

steps to move from interested to impactful


www.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe [email protected] @mcarthur_joe [email protected]


It wasn’t so much an event, as a milestone

– Jon Tennant (OpenCon Alumni)

Thank you!

[email protected] or @Mcarthur_Joe

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