“Lead­ing the event is O[pen] A[ccess] advo­cate Dr. Harold Var­mus, a Nobel Prize-winning sci­en­tist who cur­rently directs the US National Can­cer Insti­tute. He is joined by Dr. Cameron Ney­lon, a bio­physi­cist and open research advo­cate; Dr. Mona Nemer, pro­fes­sor and vice-president for research at the Uni­ver­sity of Ottawa; Dr. Roger Waki­moto, Direc­tor of the US National Cen­ter for Atmos­pheric Research; and a host of other researchers from around the globe.

“Pre­sen­ters are expected to paint a clear pic­ture of how OA has con­tributed to chang­ing the research land­scape and point to oppor­tu­ni­ties that lay ahead. Dr. Var­mus has described OA as an ‘incred­i­bly impor­tant devel­op­ment in the his­tory of sci­ence’. Dr. Ney­lon noted how pop­u­lar news sto­ries now high­light a grow­ing amount of research pub­lished in OA jour­nals, which make that mate­r­ial directly avail­able to peo­ple who want to dig deeper.“
Open Access Week is organ­ised by SPARC (the Schol­arly Pub­lish­ing and Aca­d­e­mic Resources Coali­tion), with guid­ance from an inter­na­tional panel of OA leaders.”

Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter Oct. 19, 2010