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openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button The Open Access Button Joe McArthur - @Mcarthur_Joe Assistant Director, Right to Research Coalition Co-founder and Co-Lead of the Open Access Button

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openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button These slides, videos and more: bit.ly/OABatSPARCEU

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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

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openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button How the Button Works

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openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Desktop AppMobile App

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openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Mobile Login

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openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Mobile Follow the instructions

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openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Mobile Menu

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openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Mobile Do some research.. browser

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openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Mobile Hit paywall

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openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Mobile FAQ bit

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openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Web Hit paywall

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openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button The Firefox Web App

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openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Web

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openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Web Same image, circled button image

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openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Web Click wishlist.

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openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Web Story

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openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button 2 years

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openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Insert team photo from jan meeting

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openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Make Progress.

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openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button 29 Professor Randy Schekman Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013. Sander Dekker State Secretary, Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. Professor Stephen Curry The Guardian The use of the Open Access Button will help more people to find research papers. I am even more impressed by the Open Access Button, a genuinely grass-roots initiative developed by two students. Tools like the Open Access Button can help catalyse change and create a world where science has more impact, is more efficient and importantly available to everyone. Website: openaccessbutton.org Email: hello@openaccessbutton.orgopenaccessbutton.orghello@openaccessbutton.org

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openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Annual Report 2014 Push Button. Get Research. Make Progress.

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openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button 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 31 Website: openaccessbutton.org Email: hello@openaccessbutton.orgopenaccessbutton.orghello@openaccessbutton.org

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openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button 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 Buttons 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. Huffington PostVentureBeatCreative CommonsEFFThe VarsityScientific 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.reddit AMA 35,000+ Blog hits Above: Roshan Karn speaking about the Open Access Button in Nepal (photo credit: Iryna Kuchma). 32 Website: openaccessbutton.org Email: hello@openaccessbutton.orgopenaccessbutton.orghello@openaccessbutton.org

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openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Fuelling Advocacy - Diego

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openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button SPARC Innovators

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openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button 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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openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button 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 Lpez-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 36

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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.

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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

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openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Using paywalls to make change Emailing Authors Local organising

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openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Paywall Stories Pediatric Intensive Care in South Africa: An Account of Making Optimum Use of Limited Resources at the Red Cross War Memorial Childrens 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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openaccessbutton.org @OA_Button Questions? These slides, videos and more: bit.ly/OABatSPARCEU