The Open Data Button Takes on For Profit Academic Paywalls

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-03-11

Summary:

"Paywalls stop research ideas dead in their tracks. These obstructions, while counterproductive to the digital, crowd-accelerated innovation world we inhabit, have a distinct purpose: corporate profit margins. For-profit academic publishers in 2015 accumulated $25.2 billion in profit. While this opulence helps to uncork many bottles of champagne for publisher board members looking for solid return on investment, that profit margin does less for society looking to solve complex problems with access to cutting edge information. Students David Carroll and Joe McArthur, along with a handful of colleagues, recently pushed the open data movement forward with their release of an open access directed app called the Open Data Button. This new button helps users work around paywalls in order to gain access to research data that isn't readily available online. The Open Data Button, and the data generated through the service, allows reproducibility to take a front and center conversation in academic and scientific circles ..."

Link:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-schmitt/the-open-data-button-take_b_9402168.html

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) ยป abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.data oa.open_data_button oa.advocacy

Date tagged:

03/11/2016, 11:52

Date published:

03/11/2016, 06:52