PUBLIC TALK
Saturday, May 24, 2014, 7:30-8:00pm
OCAD University, Room 230
100 McCaul St., Toronto, Ontario
Scientists Are Doing it for Themselves:
Open Access, Open Data, Citizen Science
John Dupuis (Toronto)
Librarian Steacie Science & Engineering Library
The Web has the potential to unleash scientific creativity like nothing else since the invention of the printing press. Scientists—academic, government, industrial, even amateur—have the ability to create, measure, promote, share and research using the Web as a platform. How is the Web liberating scientific creativity, looking at Open Access, Open Data, Altmetrics and Citizen Science among other movements.