opencon london - from interested to impactful
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The journey
from interested to
impactful.
Joe McArthur - @Mcarthur_Joe
Assistant Director, Right to Research Coalition
Co-founder and Co-Lead of the Open Access 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
When you can’t access papers, get research and
make progress with new apps from openaccessbutton.org
The Problem
Web Mobile
at
Openaccessbutton.org
Download for:
Mozilla Firefox
Google Chrome
Android
Bookmarklet
The Button now…
How the Button Works
Back to the start
www.righttoresearch.org
www.righttoresearch.org
www.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe [email protected]
It wasn’t so much an event, as a milestone
– Jon Tennant (OpenCon Alumni)
www.sparc.arl.org
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.
www.righttoresearch.org
June 25, 2012
www.righttoresearch.org
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
www.sparc.arl.org
www.righttoresearch.org
Open Access Week: October 20-26, 2014
www.righttoresearch.org
www.sparc.arl.org
10+ Project
Lightening talks
from new projects
www.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe [email protected]
www.righttoresearch.org
“…the degree of student initiative and
engagement at UBC gives this issue
a whole new impetus.”
www.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe [email protected]
steps to move from interested to impactful
www.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe [email protected]
www.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe [email protected] @mcarthur_joe [email protected]
www.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe [email protected]
www.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe [email protected]
www.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe [email protected]
www.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe [email protected]
www.righttoresearch.org @mcarthur_joe [email protected]