Open Access: A year of progress #OSS12

Slides from my talk on Open Access for Open Science Summit 2012.

Transcript

1. Open Science: A year of progress William Gunn, Ph.D. Head of Academic Outreach @mrgunn
3. The Cost of Knowledge 13K signed
6. Tools of scientific discovery Clean energy Clean water Sustainable food supplies Pandemic diseases Terrorist violence Climate change US National Academies “Grand Challenges”: Artificial Intelligence
7. “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.” A Big Problem
8. ...and aggregates research data in the cloud Mendeley extracts research data… Mendeley makes science more collaborative and transparent: Install Mendeley Desktop
9. ..helps researchers work smarter ..makes science more collaborative and transparent ..is creating a massive open database of research Tools of scientific discovery Mendeley...
10. 300 million documents uploaded 2.0 million users Cambridge Stanford University MIT Imperial College London University of Oxford Harvard University University of Michigan University College London University of California at Berkeley Columbia University
11. It’s Open! http://www.isitopendata.org/enquiry/view/43bcbda2-30ef-486b-9c52-4378ede75c7d/
12. Mashups with data on: Chemical compounds Locations Alzheimer’s research Grant funding Twitter streams Open API
17. Quantity Quality What’s Next?
19. We didn’t see that a target is more likely to be validated if it was reported in ten publications or in two publications NATURE REVIEWS DRUG DISCOVERY 10, 712 (SEPTEMBER 2011)
20. Either the results were reproducible and showed transferability in other models, or even a 1:1 reproduction of published experimental procedures revealed inconsistencies between published and in-house data NATURE REVIEWS DRUG DISCOVERY 10, 712 (SEPTEMBER 2011)
23. Select relation: supports refutes complements uses same data ... Human-curated, constantly evolving, linked scientific database
24. www.mendeley.com