Research funders worldwide have adopted policies to ensure scientists and the public have free online access to peer-reviewed journal articles resulting from the research they fund. Open public access expands the potential use of research findings, speeds discovery, and opens new research avenues. This workshop will examine such policies; how government and nonprofit funders are addressing copyright, publishing, and author compliance issues; the role of the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central; and emerging open-access journal publishing models.

Presenters:
Sophia Colamarino — Vice President for Research, Autism Speaks
Heather Joseph — Executive Director, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
Alexa McCray — Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and the Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Mark Patterson — Director of Publishing, Public Library of Sciences (PLoS)
Neil Thakur — Special Assistant to the Extramural Research Deputy Director, National Institute of Health (NIH)