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An article.
A poster.
A slidedeck.
Your thesis.
A dataset.
Programming code.
As an author...
By the end of this week,
open up ONE THING.
If you make academic things? I’m asking you to make ONE of those things open this week.
Just one. If you can do that with a journal article you’ve written, great! Legally, please -- if
you need help figuring out where you’re at with copyright, the librarians here can help you.
But look, it doesn’t have to be a journal article, it can be ANYTHING academic you’ve made
and hold rights to that would help other people.
And normally I’d tell you I will pledge this alongside you, but I have a leetle bit of a problem
there, namely that everything I’ve ever published is already open, one way or another, and a
whole lot of other stuff I’ve done besides. I’m curious, can anybody else here say that? (Yes:
Well, come here, I want to shake your hand! No: Okay, then there’s plenty to do, yeah?)
Come join me in making work open. I’ve done some regrettable things during my career, as
ya do -- but there’s one thing I have never regretted for an instant, and that’s making my
work open. It has opened so many doors, created so many opportunities for me, introduced
me to so many amazing people, some of whom have said to me, “I only got to read your
article because it was open access, and it really helped me, so thank you.” What’s to regret
about that, right? So join me. Let open work for you too.