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

Tue Apr 30 19:01:17 UTC 2013

After a quick pass through Refine that looks to be 90 unique Laureats.
 I'll reconcile them against Freebase to get their Wikipedia pages and post
the composite spreadsheet on Google Docs.

Tom

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Ross Mounce <ross.mounce at okfn.org> wrote:

> 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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>>
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