Open Access Academia

Mark Hahnel, PhD. Founder and CEO of figshare

Thursday, October 16 at 6pm PST

Participant link: https://sas.elluminate.com/d.jnlp?sid=2011274&password=D.1F347355930FCCD3C02849177570FF

About the Event

Interested in the OA movement? Want to make your work as a student share-able and cite-able? The ASIS&T Student Chapter is excited to welcome Mark Hahnel, PhD, the Founder and CEO of figshare, to discuss open access, open science, data sharing, and their impact on academia and on research in general. From being mandated in the UK to the need to increase access to federally funded research in the US, and the overall success of open access mega-journals such as PLOS, open access has changed the face of scholarly communications in academia. So what is the next thing to shift the needle? New business models for the scholarly journal, uncoupling the scholarly journal into its components…or something completely different? Mark will speculate on the pros and cons of each of these ideas and their disruptive business models, as well as highlighting examples where the norm has already changed and what that means for the future of scholarly work and academia. Suggest social media references: @figshare   @oatp   @ScholarlyComm   #oa   #openaccess   #openscience   @openscience   #opendata   @SJ_ScholarWorks   @PLOS   @OKFN   @OKFNUS

Speaker Bio

Mark is the founder of figshare, a research data dissemination platform. He is a former academic, having completed his PhD in stem cell biology at Imperial College London. He is passionate about open science and the potential it has to revolutionize the research community. He is currently involved in several organizations looking to standardize and future proof open digital research on the web.