Tag Archives | advocacy

Prof Rune Nilsen
Professor Emeritus in Global Health
University of Bergen
Norway
“Fight academic apartheid to advance equality and quality in the sciences”

Dr Jenny Molloy
Co-ordinator of the Synthetic Biology SRI & OpenPlant and manager of ContentMine
University of Cambridge
UK
“I hope that the publishing industry becomes an enabler of open”

Laurent Carraro
Director
Arts et Métiers ParisTech
France
“Open Access and academic social networks can ensure greater access to research results”

Alain Beretz
University President
University of Strasbourg
France
“Senior researchers can set the good example and encourage our young researchers to take the OA route”

Prof Ing Aleš Čepek
Full professor
Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Civil Engineering
Czech Republic
“We need to do more to fight the trend in commercialising science”

Prof Diana Šimić
University Professor
University of Zagreb
Croatia
“Stop discriminating against Open Access publications in research evaluation”

Jiří Marek
Ph.D student in Environmental Engineering & Open Access Co-ordinator
Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Chemistry & Rectorate, Central Library
Czech Republic
“It is important to create open research environments for discussions on openness to be effective”

Prof Dr Rolf-Ulrich Kunze
Professor of History
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Philosophy
Germany
“Open Access depends on us professors!”

Laurent Gatto
Head of the Computational Proteomics Unit
University of Cambridge
UK
“Focussing on the costs of Open Access is missing the point”

Curt Rice
University President
Oslo and Akershus University College
Norway
“We need to motivate policy makers to mandate Open Access for all scientific publications at short notice”

Prof Dr Kurt Möser
Professor of History
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Philosophy
Germany
“Traditional publishing houses need to change if they want to retain their authors”

Prof Frode Eika Sandnes
Full Professor of Computer Science
Oslo and Akershus University College, Faculty of Technology, Art and Design, Department of Computer Science
Norway
“The next generation of researchers will care less about status and more about relevance”

Prof Pearl Dykstra
Professor of Sociology, Director of Research Department of Public Administration and Sociology (DPAS)
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Department of Sociology
The Netherlands
“A little less ideology and a bit more pragmatism is necessary in the Open Access debate”

Predrag Pale
Head of Laboratory
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Croatia
“Researchers need to realise the power of Open Access”

Antonin Delpeuch
Graduate student, Computer Science
École Normale Supérieure
France
“We need to take a stand against more traditional publishers”

Ivana Hebrang Grgić
Assistant Professor
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Information and Communication Sciences
Croatia
“Educate all participants of the scholarly communication system on Open Access”