Hello folks, David and Joe from Open Access Button have reached out to FCF to see if our student members would be interested in helping out in their awesome Open Access Button initiative! These guys are passionate about open access and deploying this tool to help those affected by the broken scholarly research publishing system we have today. This tool will help students and researchers globally. I believe they are looking to launch during Open Access Week. It would be fantastic if someone from our group could help/join their team!
See the email below for more details on how you can help. Many thanks, Jen -- Hi Free Culture Foundation. Everyone has hit a paywall. Each person hitting a paywall is an indictment of our current scholarly publishing system. We can’t settle for living in a broken system, where people are denied access to research they need, and ultimately paid for. We are David Carroll and Joseph McArthur, two students from the UK's student global health network, Medsin-UK and we're working on a project called Open Access Button. Our project is a browser-based tool which tracks how often people are denied access to academic research. The tool also knows where in the world they are, their profession and why they were looking for that research. The tool combines this information into one place and creates a real time, worldwide, interactive map of the problem. The integration of social media a allows us to make this problem visible to the world. We also help the person gain access to the paper they’ve been denied access to in the first place. At the moment, our launch is on the horizon. We're looking students (both undergraduate and postgraduate, from all subjects) from all over the world to join us and as members of the Right to Research Coalition, we thought we'd contact you first. We would appreciate if you circulated this widely amongst the student population. *We are looking for people to fill the following roles: * * Social Media and Publicity Lead Secretary Funding Lead* Working on the Open Access Button will involve a reasonable time commitment, regular calls and possibly international travel. Each team member will have a primary area of work alongside broader strategic work on the project. You’ll be joining a hardworking, but laid back and fun team. We are looking for people to join our team on a voluntary basis, the roles include: *If you want to apply please complete the short form over on our blog<http://oabutton.wordpress.com/2013/09/20/join-our-team/> here*. You can find out more information on our blog<http://oabutton.wordpress.com/2013/09/20/join-our-team/> . *Deadline for applications is Monday 30th September at 11.59pm BST*. Any questions please email us at [email protected] We look forward to hearing from you, David and Joseph
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