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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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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How the Button Works
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Desktop App
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Mobile App
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Mobile
Login
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Mobile
Follow the instructions
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Mobile
Menu
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Mobile
Do some research .. browser
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Mobile
Hit paywall
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Mobile
FAQ bit
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Web
Hit paywall
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The Firefox Web App
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Web
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Web
Same image, circled button image
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Web
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Web
Click wishlist.
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Web
Story
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2 years
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Make Progress.
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“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.”
Professor Randy Schekman
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
2013.
“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.”
Professor Stephen Curry
The Guardian
Sander Dekker
State Secretary, Dutch Ministry of
Education, Culture and Science.
Website: openaccessbutton.org
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Annual Report 2014
Push Button. Get Research. Make Progress.
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Talks given in:
Australia
Brazil
France
Germany
Greece
India
Nepal
Nigeria
Pakistan
South Africa
South Korea
Taiwan
Tanzania
Turkey
UK
USA
Around the world
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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
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.
Above: Roshan Karn speaking about the Open Access
Button in Nepal (photo credit: Iryna Kuchma).
35,000+
4,034
2,119
1,287,211
Blog hits
twitter
followers
Facebook
likes
Thunderclap
reach
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Fuelling Advocacy Diego
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SPARC Innovators
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With Thanks To
The team, friends, family and partners
Cottage Labs
Open Society Foundations
Jisc
Right to Research Coalition
Medsin
Mozilla Science
PLOS
Crowdfunders
Content Mine
SPARC
For everyone, head to openaccessbutton.org/about#thanks
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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.
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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Strategy Lead
Penny Andrews
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Secretaries
Luke Barnes
Molecular Biology student.
Cardiff, Wales
Juan López-Tavera
Medical student. Mexico.
Natalie Catherwood
Medical student. Belfast,
Northern Ireland.
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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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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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Using paywalls to make change
•Emailing Authors
•Local organising
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Paywall Stories
“understand my disease better.” (student)
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)
“to compare our own research results with
those reported in this paper.” (academic)
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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“Databases embargo the last 12 months of this journal, so we
can't obtain a copy for a student.” (librarian)
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)
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Questions?
These slides, videos and more:
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