Open Access: A year of progress

I was invited to talk at PLOS for Open Access Week 2011 about how Mendeley makes a business case for open access.

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1. Open Access: A year of progress William Gunn, Ph.D. Head of Academic Outreach twitter: @mrgunn
2. [1] Online experimental peer review of the “Arsenic Life” paper that recently appeared in Science: http://rrresearch.fieldofscience.com/2010/12/arsenic-associated- bacteria-nasas.html [2] Open Science is a Research Accelerator, M. Woelfle, P. Olliaro and M. H. Todd, Nature Chemistry 2011, 3, 745-748. http://www.nature.com/nchem/journal/v3/n10/full/nchem.1149.html PLoS ONE ALM API: http://api.plos.org/alm/examples/ Mendeley’s API: http://dev.mendeley.com Biocurious: http://biocurious.org/
3. “All the time we are very conscious of the huge challenges that human society has now – curing cancer, understanding the brain for Alzheimer‘s [...]. But a lot of the state of knowledge of the human race is sitting in the scientists’ computers, and is currently not shared […] We need to get it unlocked so we can tackle those huge problems.“
4. Tools of scientific discovery Clean energy Clean water Sustainable food supplies Pandemic diseases Terrorist violence Climate change US National Academies “Grand Challenges”: Artificial Intelligence
5. ..helps researchers work smarter ..makes science more collaborative and transparent ..is creating the world’s largest open research database Tools of scientific discovery Mendeley..
6. It’s Open! http://www.isitopendata.org/enquiry/view/43bcbda2-30ef-486b-9c52-4378ede75c7d/
7. Mendeley helps researchers work smarter
8. Mendeley extracts research data.. Install Mendeley Desktop Mendeley helps researchers work smarter
9. ..and aggregates research data in the cloud Mendeley extracts research data.. Mendeley helps researchers work smarter
10. By doing this, Mendeley makes science more collaborative and transparent:
11. 1,000,000 people are using Mendeley! University of Cambridge Stanford University MIT Imperial College London University of Oxford Harvard University University of Michigan University College London University of California at Berkeley Sao Paulo University University of Edinburgh Cornell University Princeton University RWTH Aachen Columbia University Max Planck Society University of Cologne Yale University University of Wisconsin University of Florida
12. Real-time data on 30m research papers: Last year...
13. Real-time data on 29m research papers: Thomson Reuters’ Web of Knowledge Last year...
14. •Over 1,000,000 people are using Mendeley •Over 120M papers have been uploaded •Over 1000 API keys have been given to developers Today…
15. Mashups with data on: Chemical compounds Locations Alzheimer’s research Grant funding Alternative Metrics Open API
16. Select relation: supports refutes complements uses same data ... Human-curated, constantly evolving, linked scientific database
17. ReaderMeter.org
20. REPUTATION METRICS
21. “All the time we are very conscious of the huge challenges that human society has now – curing cancer, understanding the brain for Alzheimer‘s [...]. But a lot of the state of knowledge of the human race is sitting in the scientists’ computers, and is currently not shared […] We need to get it unlocked so we can tackle those huge problems.“
22. www.mendeley.com