A presentation given at the first ever Open Research London on what students around the world are doing, the Open Access Button and how to get involved.

1. 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

2. 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

3. 25 leading universities
ranked by their Open Access policies
and free access outputs

4. www.righttoresearch.org
1,000+
Congressional lobbying visits
over the past 4.5 years

5. 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.
www.righttoresearch.org
June 25, 2012
Students push
scholarly and professional societies to
adopt Open Access stances

6. www.righttoresearch.org
Students lead public discourse
through op-ed, petitions, slogans and
on campus action

7. 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

8. www.sparc.arl.org
New organizations
lead the discussion around Open
Access nationally and locally

9. www.righttoresearch.org
½ of med students in 1 week
that’s how many students a group can
educate in a week

10. www.righttoresearch.org
From campus to continent
Open Access week started with students on
campus, now a international event.

11. www.sparc.arl.org
Students in top publishers
Two innovative Open Access Publishers put
early career researchers on their boards.

12. www.sparc.arl.org

13. www.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe Joe@righttoresearch.org
10+ lightening talks
from new projects

14. When you can’t access papers, get research and
make progress with new apps from openaccessbutton.org

17. Web Mobile
at
Openaccessbutton.org
Download for:
Mozilla Firefox
Google Chrome
Android
Bookmarklet
The Button now…

18. How the Button Works

19. www.righttoresearch.org
“…the degree of student initiative and
engagement at UBC gives this issue
a whole new impetus.”

20. www.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe Joe@righttoresearch.org
Image licensed CC-BY ND v2.0 by Tambako The Jaguar at https://www.flickr.com/photos/tambako/3689136427

21. A Tale of Two Announcements
www.sparc.arl.org

22. 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
www.sparc.arl.org

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

24. www.sparc.arl.org
Source:
http://www.nature.com/news/nature-
makes-all-articles-free-to-view-
1.16460
*

25. www.sparc.arl.org
Source:
http://www.nature.com/news/nature-
makes-all-articles-free-to-view-
1.16460
* “Beggar
Access”
- Ross Mounce
http://rossmounce.co.uk/2014/12/02/beggar-access/

26. Source: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141202/11073029297/nature-drops-its-paywall-replaces-it-with-insane-anti-research-
proprietary-drm.shtml
www.sparc.arl.org

27. www.sparc.arl.org
Which future do we want?
Immediate Open Access with full
reuse rights
or
“Free” access through a closed,
proprietary platform with DRM

28. steps to move from interested to impactful
www.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe Joe@righttoresearch.org

29. www.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe Joe@righttoresearch.orgwww.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe Joe@righttoresearch.org

30. www.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe Joe@righttoresearch.org

31. www.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe Joe@righttoresearch.org
It wasn’t so much an event, as a milestone
– Jon Tennant (OpenCon Alumni)

32. www.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe Joe@righttoresearch.org

33. www.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe Joe@righttoresearch.org

34. Thank you!
Joe@righttoresearch.org or @Mcarthur_Joe
My slides, videos and more
www.righttoresearch.org/learn/Open-Research-London