Cameron Neylon - Realising the full potential of Open Access: How I learned to stop worrying and love the RCUK policy
Open Access Week
| A Research and Knowledge Transfer seminar | |
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| Date | 24 October 2012 |
| Time | 15:30 to 16:30 |
| Place | Streatham Court |
Cameron Neylon is a biophysicist who has always worked in interdisciplinary areas and is an advocate of open research practice and improved data management.He currently works as Advocacy Director at the Public Library of Science.Along with his work in structural biology and biophysics his research and writing focuses on the interface of web technology with science and the successful (and unsuccessful) application of generic and specially designed tools in the academic research environment.He is a co-author of the Panton Principles for Open Data in Science and writes regularly on the social, technical, and policy issues of open research at his blog, Science in the Open.
Realising the full potential of Open Access: How I learnt to stop worrying and love the RCUK policy.
The web changes everything, and yet it has changed our central means of scholarly communication, the peer reviewed journal article, only slightly. At the same time we have a growing number of examples showing the potential for research to be transformed when the web is fully exploited to both carry out and communicate research. This transformation will both radically enhance our research capacity while simultaneously drive down the costs and increase the efficiency of research communication. There will be transitional costs and a period of instability but for those institutions taking a leadership position there is a significant potential to both unlock the potential savings early and reap the strategic benefits of being ahead of the pack. While by no means perfect, the RCUK policy on open access represents a bold step in positioning UK research at the leading edge of the change that is coming. UK institutions have a historic opportunity to take a global leadership position on next generation scholarly communication if they are able to engage productively with the policy and work in concert to manage the transitional costs.
Open Access Happy Hour in the XFI Café will follow this keynote presentation.
| Organizer | Hannah Lloyd-Jones |
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| Tel | 01392722678 |
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