FOSTER presentation at Trieste, Italy, 7 July 2015. Empowering graduate students: science dissemination and science communication “in the open”

1. What young researchers can do
to promote open access
Nancy Pontika, PhD
CORE
Open University
Email: nancy.pontika[at]open.ac.uk
Twitter: @nancypontika
Universita Degli Studi Di Trieste, 7 July 2015

2. Open Access : Where are we now?

3. OA
Growth

4. Growth of items in Open Access Repositories

5. Records stored across all OARs
164,259,752 records across 2,531 repositories as
estimated by OpenDOAR
[December, 2013 -http://www.opendoar.org/]

6. SPARC Europe
Open Access
Diary

7. COnnecting REpositories - CORE
Aggregate all open access content distributed
across different systems worldwide, enrich this
content and provide access to it through a set of
services …

8. CORE Portal

9. Open Access projects you can both use
and contribute

10. Open Access Tracking Project

11. Open Access Button

12. What can you do to promote open
access?

13. Open Access Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5rVH1KGBCY

14. Talk to your professors
About our next
publication… I
am thinking of
an Open Access
journal …

15. Talk to your librarian I care a lot about
Open Access. Can we
have a chat about the
current scholarly
communications
system?

16. Make your voice public

17. Involve your classmates
• Plan a session on Open Access during lunch
time
• Create fliers with the benefits of open access
• Push for an institutional repository
• Push for an open access mandate

18. Celebrate Open Access Week

19. Get connected

20. OpenCon
Conference Website : http://opencon2015.org/attend

21. Right to Research Coalition – R2RC

22. Grazie!
Domande?