John Willinksy - Open Access is Public Access - science21

Talking aboutt he history of the Oxford English Dictionary - Cameron Neylon

Looking at the card catalogue in Oxford - at Waterloo they were digitising the OED - Cameron Neylon

electronic index made new types of query possible - Cameron Neylon

"Are you familiar with Canada?" - Chad Orzel

OED was originally put together by the public - put out request to send in quotations - Cameron Neylon

Therefore interest in the public role in scholarship - Cameron Neylon

OED formerly called "English Public Dictionary" - Michael Nielsen

Some people sent in more than 100,000 submissions to the dictionary...! - Michael Nielsen

'Explaining Open Access to physicists is like explaining water to fish' - Cameron Neylon

Open Access to physicists, is like water to fish. - carolh

drawn into the open access movement as an educator - Cameron Neylon

Has been drawn into open access as an educator. Sees Universities as contributing to the knowledge landscape. - Michael Nielsen

concerned about public access to the published literature - Cameron Neylon

great triumph of the open access movement is third world access to peer reviewed literature - Cameron Neylon

Free access in Third World is triumph of Open Access - Chad Orzel

15-20% of literature in most disciplines is available as open access - Jen Dodd

sloan digital sky survey - as example 100,000 people looking at galaxies - Cameron Neylon

Compares Galaxy Zoo to the early OED, with the 100000 contributors. - Michael Nielsen

Galaxy Zoo: http://www.galaxyzoo.org/ - Jen Dodd

effective amateur participation in astronomy - Cameron Neylon

Galaxy Zoo (cited as OED-like public science project): http://www.galaxyzoo.org/ - Chad Orzel

"We don't know if Newton ever stood on a beach" - Jen Dodd

Newton's correspondents provided the data on tides - Cameron Neylon

The theme is therefore the correspondence between scientist and citizen - Cameron Neylon

"information prescriptions" from Doctors in Georgia?! - Michael Nielsen

the role of patient in their treatment "shared decision makeing" in Georgia (US) physicians can prescribe 'information' for the patient - Cameron Neylon

when pubmed opened queries to Medline went up 100 times - Cameron Neylon

When PubMed opened, number of enquiries to MedLine increased by a factor of 100! - Michael Nielsen

PubMed (cited as tool for public interaction with medicine): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed... - Chad Orzel

providing access to full text could radically improve the provision of information to patients - Cameron Neylon

requirements for OA publication from Wellcome etc - Cameron Neylon

Among the major publishers, 62% will let people post final drafts, maybe after some embargo. - Michael Nielsen

Up until the mandates compliance was limited ~10% - Cameron Neylon

Brings up the results showing open access articles get a citation increase. - Michael Nielsen

higher citation rates of OA mentioned - Cameron Neylon

Those who make work freely available see 300% increase in citations. - Chad Orzel

impact of OA on policy makers - Cameron Neylon

I'm skeptical of the citation increase. Hard to sort out causation and correlation with this kind of thing. - Michael Nielsen

there is a 20 minute window for policy makers to get information for briefing - Cameron Neylon

Impact on policy: want politicians and other decision makers to have access. - Michael Nielsen

Open Access allows policy makers to draw on information, replacing cronyism - Chad Orzel

potential for creating knowledge with public involvement cf wikipedia - Cameron Neylon

Studying the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (peer reviewed and open access) vs Wikipedia. - Michael Nielsen

Stanfrod philosophical encylopedia is peer reviewed and open access - with debate and regularly updated - Cameron Neylon

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu/ - Jen Dodd

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (alternative to wikipedia): http://plato.stanford.edu/ - Chad Orzel

you be the judge of the quality - Cameron Neylon

use of open access literature to refine public resources like wikipedia. - the quality of the references are critical and open access literature can support e.g. wikipedia - Cameron Neylon

Libraries and Philosophy Depts trying to put an endowment together for the Stanford Encyclopedia. - Michael Nielsen

Educating the public to do the best possible job reading research: get as much as possible out of it. - Michael Nielsen

Public Knowledge Project - what can be done to help? - Cameron Neylon

Public Knowledge Project: http://pkp.sfu.ca/ - Chad Orzel

reading depends on context and motivation - in biomedicine many people with motivation but no context - Cameron Neylon

multiple meanings of access and accessibility - both meaning (context) and online availability - accessibility through meaning is hard - Cameron Neylon

toolbar in a publishing system that provides context - related article, articles by authrois, media reports, government material - Cameron Neylon

scientists should make research publicly available, educators should build context - Jen Dodd

definitely worth watching when the video is available - Cameron Neylon

Absolutely-- watch this on video. - Chad Orzel

Third - exceptionally engaging and informative! - Michael Nielsen

I agree - wonderful speaker! - Victor / Mendeley Team

Striking phrases: "Right to Know", "Access Principle" - Michael Nielsen

Recording (video; there were no slides) is up at http://pirsa.org/08090028/ - Jen Dodd