Standing on the Threshold
From Open Access to Networked Research

SciELO15 – São Paolo – 24 October 2013
Cameron Neylon - @cameronneylon
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0068-716X
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37753256@N08 CC BY
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001691
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2013
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50% Open-Access in 2013?

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No longer a question of if…

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…but how?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattymatt/3017263513 CC-BY-SA

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…and when?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwarby/3297205226 CC-BY

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And why.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/drachmann/327122302 CC-BY-SA

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The access argument…

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The network argument
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https://gist.github.com/cameronneylon/6033364
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A theory of change?

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The economic argument

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mukumbura/4052671706 CC-BY-SA
How will it play out?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeshlabotnik/2143212474 CC-BY

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What infrastructure?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/yakobusan/2436481628 CC-BY
…and what foundations?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/56380734@N05/7852142720 CC-BY-SA

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…measurement...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sterlic/4299631538 CC-BY
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/7155294657 CC BY-SA

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“The best minds of my
generation are thinking about how
to make people click ads”
Jeff Hammerbacher

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We’ve spent 50 years...
…arguing for…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tranchis/3708549622
…curiosity driven research

http://www.flickr.com/photos/11247304@N06/1340979055 CC-BY
Saying advances can only
ever be a happy accident.
And they should be happy.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeshlabotnik/2384495536 CC-BY
And they will be unpredictable.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrzeon/5330056727 CC-BY-SA
But never an accident.
You can’t predict one throw...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sean_hickin/4319839458 CC-BY
...but we know the distribution
And we make the dice...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gringer/5096129532 CC-BY-SA
...and can roll them more
times than ever before.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesrbowe/4001776922 CC-BY
We can manufacture

http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/5890200864 CC-BY-SA
There are choices to make…

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…and bets to place

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrzeon/5330056727 CC-BY-SA

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@cameronneylon
http://cameronneylon.net
cneylon@plos.org
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0068-716X

Standing on the Threshold: From Open Access to Networked Research