A big thank you to everyone who joined us in celebrating Open Access Week 2014. Here are the slides from last week’s talks, with especial thanks to our visiting speakers:
Dr Susanna-Assunta Sansone (Oxford e-Research Centre and NPG Scientific Data): Open Access & Open Data at Nature Publishing Group: better data=better science. [presentation]
Overview of key issues in open data, reproducible research, data sharing & repositories in the life sciences. Structured tools for recording data and NPG’s Data Descriptor.
Open Access Oxford — What’s Happening? (iSkills). [presentation]
A briefing for Oxford staff: how to comply with funder mandates inc. new HECFE policy for post-2014 REF.
Dr Martin Eve (University of Lincoln and OLH Co-Director): The Open Library of Humanities: Gold Open Access for the Humanities without Author-Facing Charges. [presentation]
Overview of the obstacles to OA in the humanities and how OLH, ‘a collectively funded megajournal and shared infrastructure platform’, can solve the challenges of prestige & sustainable economics.
Your Thesis, Copyright and ORA (iSkills). [presentation]
How to deposit your thesis in ORA without infringing third-party copyright : guidance for DPhil students.
Margaret Hurley: (Wellcome Trust): The new Charity Open Access Fund (COAF): what researchers need to know. [presentation]
All about the new policy, which affects anyone funded by Arthritis Research UK, Breast Cancer Campaign, the British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK, Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research and the Wellcome Trust.

