[open-science] A Public List of Notable, Senior Open Scientists

Tue Apr 30 17:15:46 UTC 2013

Many thanks Peter.

It's a wonder with so many different Nobel Laureates publicly supporting
moves towards open science that things haven't moved faster!

All the best,

Ross

On 30 April 2013 18:04, Peter Suber <peter.suber at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Ross,
>
> Over the years, five overlapping groups of Nobel laureates have written
> public letters to Congress in support of OA policies. You could harvest
> names from these letters:
>
> * first letter, August 26, 2004; 25 signatures
> http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/nobelists2004.html
>
> * second letter, July 8, 2007; 26 signatures
> http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/bof.html
>
> * third letter, September 9, 2008; 33 signatures
> http://www.arl.org/sparc/bm~doc/nobelistssupportpa-08sept.pdf
>
> * fourth letter, November 10, 2009; 41 signatures
> http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/supporters/scientists/nobelists_2009.shtml
>
> * fifth letter, March 28, 2012; 52 signatures
> http://www.arl.org/sparc/bm~doc/2012-nobelists-lofgren.pdf
>
> To maximize the political impact on US lawmakers, most of these letters
> were deliberately limited to US laureates.
>
>      Good luck!
>      Peter
>
> Peter Suber
> bit.ly/suber-gplus
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Ross Mounce <ross.mounce at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>> Hey open-science list,
>>
>>
>> We're in the process of compiling a list of notable, 'senior' open
>> scientists to publish on a dedicated page on http://science.okfn.org/
>> We think this is an important move to publicly demonstrate that open
>> approaches & advocacy, in STEM research are used by the very best.
>>
>> Who would you nominate as an excellent example of an established open
>> scientist?
>>
>> *Criteria & Guidance:* We're looking for Principal Investigators and
>> above here.
>> Whilst there are many excellent open grad students and postdocs out
>> there, we're just looking for a list of very *established* open
>> scientists on this occasion.
>>
>> Our list in progress is linked below (it's only just begun, we're
>> probably missing many obvious names):
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtbO6mZEvieCdDlNd0p3RXRzQVhTcjg4Q19hXzFhX3c&usp=sharing
>>
>>
>> If you have any suggestions for other excellent, established open
>> scientists please add them directly to the above spreadsheet with
>> supporting details of how/why they represent open science and links. Also,
>> better descriptions of why they're open are very welcome!
>>
>> Elsewise, feel free to discuss nominations further on-list here.
>>
>> Some guide examples:
>>
>> John Sulston - Strong advocate and supporter of open data in science.
>> Nobel Prize Winner
>> Harold E. Varmus - Champion of Open Access and PMC. Nobel Prize Winner
>> Michael Ashburner - reknowned open science advocate & Benjamin Franklin
>> Award Winner
>> Michael Eisen -  reknowned open science advocate & Benjamin Franklin
>> Award Winner
>>
>>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Ross
>>
>>
>>
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