OAI10 - CERN - UNIGE Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication

Session

Plenary 4

P4

Jun 22, 2017, 1:45 PM

University of Geneva

Conveners

Plenary 4: OA outside the academy

• Danny Kingsley

15. OA outside session : Who needs access to research? an overview of available evidence

Mr ElHassan ElSabry

6/22/17, 1:45 PM

Unlike studies on the impact of Open Access on citations or library budgets, the number of studies on OA's impact on society is relatively very small. Arguments about the societal benefits of OA are very common in OA mandates and policies as well as in advocacy materials, though with little evidence to back them up. This session aims to give an overview of 30+ research papers and reports that...

24. OA outside session : Is open access helping or hindering the international development agenda? Reflections from a consortium of developing country NGOs

Dr Nilam Ashra-McGrath

6/22/17, 2:30 PM

As an international health consortium, COMDIS-HSD works with a combination of researchers in developing country NGOs, researchers at the University of Leeds, media outlets, independent researchers and consultants. This pool of expertise has highlighted issues about the open access privileges afforded to academic institutions versus the access that is available for those based outside of...

25. OA outside session : How open access opens doors - reflections on my recent 'Megaregions of the United States' paper

Dr Alasdair Rae

6/22/17, 2:55 PM

In this presentation I discuss a recent piece of research I conducted on the geography of so-called 'megaregions' in the United States. In collaboration with my colleague Garrett Nelson at Dartmouth College (US), I used a large dataset and cloud computing to algorithmically define commuter megaregions in the United States. The paper was published in PLOS ONE in November 30 2016 and since then...

26. OA outside session : Discussion

Dr Danny Kingsley

6/22/17, 3:20 PM