Our VP, Mathieu Lampron presenting 1science at the Global Entrepreneur Week 2015 event organized by MtlNewTech and hosted by Notman House in Montreal.

2. Accessing and publishing
scientific literature
is a major challenge
for all scholarly institutions
Universities are struggling

3. Universities are spending a LOT for
electronic serials
Source: IPEDS (INTEGRATED POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION DATA SYSTEM)
~$10M/year
~$6M/year
~$7M/year

4. Source: Université de Montréal Library’s Web Site

5. Source: The STM report 4th edition, March 2015
The 10
largest
publishers
by number
of journals
Oligopolistic Market

6. More and more expensive
Source: https://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2013/01/

7. The Scholars’ Answer
Budapest open access initiative, December 2001

8. Source: Originally published in Archambault, E., et al. 2013. Proportion of Open Access Peer-Reviewed Papers at the
European and World Levels—2004-2011. Produced by Science-Metrix for the European Commission.
1science’s origins
the tipping point

9. Challenges met by OA
initiatives and movement
“Where can we find it all?”
“How can we publish?”
“How can we assess quality?”
“Can we replace part of our
subscriptions with OA content?
If so, how?”

10. We built 3 complementary
products to address the cost
and accessibility issues

11. OA papers
discovery
Custom-made reports to increase subscriptions’
cost-effectiveness and identify institutional
strengths
OA papers global
discovery
&virtual repository
A SOLUTION TO HELP EMBRACE OA MORE ACTIVELY

12. Our biggest challenges
Build a kick a**
engineering team in
Montreal’s
saturated recruiting
market
Data treatment and
quality validation
Release a big data
product within 12
months

13. 1science “ELECTION” TECHNOLOGY

14. Why would I work for you ?
Simon Sinek’s TED talk. The golden circle.

15. Why?
We believe institution’s access to knowledge
should be easier and cheaper
By facilitating the flow of knowledge thanks to
the open access movement and technology
How?
What?
oaFindr, oaFigr and oaFoldr

16. Big DATA – STACK

17. oaFindr

19. Mathieu Lampron
VP Product
@MathieuLampron