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OAI9 Barriers and Impact
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Barriers and Impact
Joe McArthur - @Mcarthur_Joe
Assistant Director, Right to Research Coalition
Co-founder and Co-Lead of the Open Access Button
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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
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Around the world
Talks given in:
Australia
Brazil
France
Germany
Greece
India
Nepal
Nigeria
Pakistan
South Africa
South Korea
Taiwan
Tanzania
Turkey
UK
USA
Team based in:
Australia
Canada
Costa Rica
France
Germany
Italy
Mexico
South Africa
The Netherlands
UK (England,
Northern Ireland,
Wales)
USA
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Communications
4,034
twitter
followers
2,119
Facebook
likes
1,287,211
Thunderclap
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 Labs
Open Society Foundations
Jisc
Right to Research Coalition
Medsin
For everyone, head to openaccessbutton.org/about#thanks
Mozilla Science
PLOS
Crowdfunders
Content Mine
SPARC
The team, friends, family and partners
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Co-leads and Co-founders
David Carroll
Medical student. Belfast, Northern Ireland
Joe McArthur
Assistant Director, Right to Research Coalition. London,
England.
Georgina Taylor
Medical and Arts student. Hobart, Australia.
Communications
Dave Bennett (Coordinator)
PhD student. London, England.
Margaux Larre-Perez
PhD Student. Paris, France.
Megan Waples
MLIS Student. London, England.
Lydia Zvyagintseva
Graduate student in Digital Humanities and Library and
Information Studies. Alberta, Canada.
Alexandra Giannopoulou
PhD Law Student, Universite Paris II Pantheon Assas
Jess Warren
MA Publishing, University of Sydney
Community and Advocacy
Reshma Ramachandran (Coordinator)
MD/MPP Student. Providence, USA.
Sarah Melton (Coordinator)
PhD Student. Atlanta, USA.
Consultation and Partnerships
Minuette Le (Coordinator)
Researcher, Leuphana Universitaet. Berlin,
Germany.
Funding
Natalia Norori
Medical student. San Jose, Costa Rica.
Joseph Paul
Biology Student. North Carolina, USA.
Launch
Chealsye Bowley (Coordinator)
Master of Library and Information Studies, and
MSc in Science, Technology and Society.
Florence, Italy and London, UK.
Strategy Lead
Penny Andrews
Secretaries
Luke Barnes
Molecular Biology student. Cardiff,
Wales
Juan López-Tavera
Medical student. Mexico.
Natalie Catherwood
Medical student. Belfast, Northern
Ireland.
Technology Team
Martin Bentley
Geology/computing science MSc
student. Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
Rigel Hope
Past Members
Heidi Dowding
Jim McGrath
Rachael Patton
Fabian Falkenbach
Sucheta Tiwari
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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
• Paywalls are here to stay
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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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How you can support
• Help us reach more students and early
career researchers
• Help support students and early career
researchers to attend the meeting.