Open Access Week 2010: Keynote Speaker

Did you miss our kick-off event on Monday? The video is now avaliable streaming below. Check out our calender to see what else we are doing for open access week.

Open Access Week 2010 from SPARC on Vimeo.

Summary:
Kick-off Open Access Week by joining us for a webcast that will be streamed at sites celebrating Open Access Week around the globe. 

Nobel Prize-winning scientist and Director of the U.S. National Cancer Institute Dr. Harold Varmus will offer welcoming remarks. Varmus, a long-time champion, has been an unparalleled leader in promoting Open Access in a succession of key roles – from introducing the topic of wider access and launching PubMed Central to increase public access to the literature, as the Director of the National Institutes of Health, to helping to found the Public Library of Science, one of the world’s leading open-access publishers.

Varmus will be joined by Dr. Cameron Neylon, a Senior Scientist at the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council, biochemist, and author of the widely read “Science in the Open” blog. Neylon will highlight the kinds of scientific advances Open Access can facilitate, and discuss current examples along with future opportunities. A host of leading researchers from around the globe will also add their voices to the event.

Visit the Open Access Week video page for more testmonials such as the one featured below.

To read more about the research mentioned in the video above see the New York Times article below:

Sharing of Data Leads to Progress on Alzheimer’s By GINA KOLATA Published: August 12, 2010 The key to a collaborative Alzheimer’s project was an ambitious agreement to share all the data, making every single finding public immediately.