Liz Allen's Page

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Are you participating in OAWeek 2018? (You can update this later): Yes--definitely!

First name: Liz

Last name: Allen

Organization/institution name: Annual Reviews

Type of institution: Publisher

What's your position?: Publisher

What's the level of OA awareness where you are?: Expert

How did you hear of the OA Week site?: I helped to start it!

Liz Allen's Blog

Developing a new OA funding model called Subscribe to Open (S2O) - OA week 2018

It's OA week once more - time to offer up my annual personal perspective because for me, this week represents eleven years of commitment to our collective efforts to liberate knowledge.

This time last year,…

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Posted on October 22, 2018 at 1:48pm

Introducing Knowable Magazine - launching with a CC license during OA Week 2017!

I wanted to offer a quick personal perspective on OA week. I've been involved since the very first one 10 years ago, when a team of us at PLOS (where I worked back in the day) brainstormed the logo in its distinctive color of orange largely because we could see the SF Giants stadium from our offices! I couldn't be prouder of how far the movement has come, so far indeed, that it seems more like a giant business than a grass roots effort to change the way science is communicated. I still…

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Posted on October 24, 2017 at 10:30pm