Week in Links — May 16

What has been happening in the world of Open Access in the last week (or two)? On Wednesday (May 14, 2014), SPARC [http://www.sparc.arl.org/news/sparc-joins-major-international-associations-support-immediate-open-access-research-articles] , EIFL [http://www.eifl.net/news/eifl-joins-associations-support-immediate-

Team Button Tuesdays: Penny and Minuette

Behind the Open Access Button is a team of international student volunteers. Get to know them on Team Button Tuesdays! This week we have Penny, our Strategy Lead, and Minuette, our Consultation and Partnership Coordinator. Penny Andrews, Strategy Lead Open Access is vital to me. I didn’t discover it

The Week in Links — May 9

What has been happening in the world of Open Access in the last week? SPARC [http://www.sparc.arl.org/initiatives/openaccessweek/2014/announcement] announces the theme for the 2014 International Open Access Week in October to be “Generation Open.” The event will highlight the importance of encouraging the younger

The Week in Links — May 2

What has been happening in the world of Open Access in the last week? The Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge has said that ‘Elsevier are rich enough already [http://www.rtaylor.co.uk/borysiewicz-elsevier-open-access.html?utm_term=%23oa&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=

Team Button Thursday — Natalie and Martin

Behind the Open Access Button is a team of international student volunteers. Get to know them on Team Button Tuesdays! This week we have a special edition on Thursday, since we announced our crowdfunding campaign for Button 2.0 [https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/button-2-0/x/6770014#home]

The Week in Links — April 26

What has been happening in the world of Open Access in the last week? We are thrilled to announce this week the beginning of our Indigogo crowdfunding campaign [https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/button-2-0?show_todos=true#home]! All the money raised will go towards a new tool,

Team Button Thursday: Dave and Reshma

Behind the Open Access Button is a team of international student volunteers. Get to know them on Team Button Tuesdays! This week we have a special edition on Thursday, since we announced our crowdfunding campaign for Button 2.0 [https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/button-2-0/x/6770014#home]

Indiegogo Features Update

Yesterday we launched our crowdfunding campaign [https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/button-2-0/x/6770014#home]. A few hours after launch, visitors to our main website openaccessbutton.org [https://www.openaccessbutton.org/] recieved a message of “502 bad gateway error”. On the list of things you’d like to

The Open Access Button to crowdfund Button 2.0

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 22 2014 Contact: openaccessbutton@medsin.org LONDON, UK— The Open Access Button is launching a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo [https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/button-2-0/x/6770014] to raise £20,000 to support the development of Button 2.0. The Open Access Button is

Open Access Button Update: April 21

Open Governance The Open Access Button strives to be an open project that strengthens the Open movement. The source code of the Button is open and freely available through GitHuB [https://github.com/oabutton], the data gathered by the Button will be open and freely available, and now the guiding

The Week in Links — April 18

What has been happening in the world of Open Access in the last week? Oregon State University’s library has begun a new program to offer open access eTextbooks [http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/04/oa/osu-libraries-offer-open-access-etextboooks-to-students/%20] produced by their faculty in

Team Button Tuesdays: Juan and Sarah

Behind the Open Access Button is a team of international student volunteers. Get to know them on Team Button Tuesdays! This week we have Juan, one of our Secretaries; and Sarah, one of our Community and Advocacy Coordinators. Juan Carlos, Secretary Hi. My name is Juan Carlos and I’m

New Steering Committee Members

We’re thrilled to announce the addition of six professionals to the Open Access Button Steering Committee. Our Steering Committee now holds expertise in advocacy, fundraising, copyright law, programming, governance, communications, and technology in the Global South. The Committee will provide long term perspective to the project and serve as

The Week in Links — April 12

What has been happening in the world of Open Access in the last week? Open Access Button Steering Committee member Vic blogged on an Open Access Button upgrade coming soon [http://blog.crankycoder.com/2014/04/10/upgrading-the-open-access-button/], offering links to open access versions of papers.

Upgrading the Open Access Button

A great blog post by Mozilla software engineer and Open Access Button Steering Committee member Vic on an Open Access Button upgrade coming soon.

Team Button Tuesdays: David and Georgina

Behind the Open Access Button is a team of international student volunteers. Get to know them on Team Button Tuesdays! This week we have David, our co-founder; and Georgina, our fundraising coordinator. David Carroll, Open Access Button Co-Lead Over the last six months, I’ve been constantly amazed

The Week in Links — April 4

What has been happening in the world of Open Access in the last week? Kevin Smith, Scholarly Communication Officer at Duke University, denounces the Nature Publishing Group (NPG) for attacking academic values [http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2014/03/27/attacking-academic-values/]. According to Smith, NPG recently asked

Open Access Button Update: April 1

A Bigger Button Team The main growth for the Open Access Button lately has been recruiting new members for our student team and Steering Committee. Student Team We have welcomed 11 new team members to team Button! This brings our international student volunteer team to 19 members. We’ve expanded

The Week in Links — March 14

What has been happening in the world of Open Access in the last week (or two)? The Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science and Technology (FIRST) Act [http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/HR4186.pdf] was introduced into the United States House of Representatives. Section 303

Open Access Button Update: March 10

Rex Crossley Awards The Open Access Button is now award winning! On March 8, the Open Access Button was awarded the Rex Crossley Award — Best Project. The Rex Crossley Awards recognise the work and achievements of the best projects of the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA). Recruiting Team

The Week in Links — February 28

What has been happening in the world of Open Access in the last week? Building Button 2.0: The Open Access Button [http://blogs.plos.org/thestudentblog/2014/02/21/building-button-2-0-open-access-button/] from Co-Lead David Carroll for PLoS Blogs [http://blogs.plos.org/]. PLoS’

Join the Button’s Steering Committee!

The Open Access Button [www.openaccessbutton.org] is a browser bookmarklet that lets users report when they are denied access to research, then search for alternative access to the article. Each time a user encounters a paywall, they simply click the Button in their bookmark bar, fill out an optional

Open Access Button Update: February 24

The Open Access Button has been growing the last few weeks and has now mapped over 5,500 paywalls! We’re also nearing 2,000 Twitter [https://twitter.com/OA_Button] followers and 1,000 likes on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/openaccessbutton]. Thank you to all our users and

The Week in Links — February 21

What has been happening in the world of Open Access in the last week (or two)? In the world of the Open Access Button, we are developing Button 2.0. Do you have something you’d like to see in the next version? Let us know in our consultation survey

Join the Open Access Button Student Team!

The Open Access Button [www.openaccessbutton.org] is a browser bookmarklet that tracks and maps the impacts of paywalls. Users can report when they are denied access to research and then search for alternative access to the article using the Button. We launched the Open Access Button in November 2013