Hello, We’re Open - Speaking of Medicine

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-07-28

Summary:

" ... The OpenCon Community Call was born after a group of 150 students, librarians and early career researchers met at OpenCon2014 in Washington, D.C. in November last year, bringing together an international community of people interested in Open Access, Open Data and Open Education. From every continent bar Antarctica, we represented fields as diverse as Slavic Languages and Literature to Computational Neuroscience and pretty much everything in between. As conferences go, we all agreed it had been epic – from the peers we had connected with to the caliber of senior figures we were able to both lobby and learn from, it had been a game-changer of a conference for all of us in appreciating our pivotal role in the OA movement. A key concern we shared was how to continue and develop our open community. We wanted to continue to learn from and support each other in striving for open-ness, as well as provide a platform for those new to Open Access to join the conversation. With that, the OpenCon Community Call was conceived. The formula is simple – we talk about all things Open in a ‘safe’, low pressure environment, keep up to date with OA developments and support each other with new projects and initiatives to promote OA in our environments. Hosted monthly, each call is one hour of structured news sharing and discussions via a teleconference call, and the agenda and minutes are continuously updated and available. Everyone is free to contribute to the call or the agenda/minutes, and we have a coordinating team who provide the structure for the call ..."

Link:

http://blogs.plos.org/speakingofmedicine/2015/07/27/hello-were-open/

From feeds:

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

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.students oa.librarians oa.universities oa.colleges oa.advocacy oa.open_science oa.data oa.education oa.publishing oa.hei

Date tagged:

07/28/2015, 07:25

Date published:

07/28/2015, 03:24