Event Detail (Archived)
What's Holding Up Open Access?
- This event already took place in October 2012
- 305 WRB
Event Details
- Type
- Other Meetings
- Open to
- Public
- Contact
- Jeanne Garbarino
- Phone
- (212) 327-7702
- Sponsor
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Jeanne Garbarino
(212) 327-7702
jgarbarino@rockefeller.edu - Notes
- In September, the high-energy physics community and 10 publishers came to an agreement: all future papers in the field would be published open access. In biology, the U.S. government and a number of private foundations are also pushing for publications to be open access. Although there are an increasing number of open access publishing options, many scientific results still sit behind paywalls. This panel will discuss the challenges faced by open access publishing platforms, and the barriers that are limiting its wider adoption. They'll also consider whether opening up the publishing process at an earlier stage could be beneficial to science.
Panelists include:
Jennifer McLennan leads publicity and marketing for eLife, the new open-access initiative from leading biomedical research funders, and has strong background in open-access policy advocacy and community-building.
Lane Rasberry has worked for the Open Science Federation, and currently works on getting better science information on Wikipedia.
Oya Rieger is an associate university librarian at Cornell, where she oversees the electronic publishing and preservation efforts, including the arXiv.