Wear Your Open on Your Sleeve

Michael Eisen UC Berkeley, HHMI, PLOS

@mbeisen

Burden of Open

Antique Paywall

Pat

Useless

Fixed?

Disappointing

Rebellion

Not ready

Reluctant

The Nobelist, The Famous Scientist and Me

Peon

Worship

Advice“I admire your zeal. But if you do not publish in Science, Nature and Cell you will never get a tenure track job, you

will never get tenure and your trainees will fail”-N.C.

“Why do you care? There are only ten people in the world I care about reading my papers and they all get Cell”

-R.T.

“You have to choose between making the world a better place, and having a career in science”

-J.R.

Ignore

All In

Test

Success!

Tenure

Lesson 1Don’t count on institutions or “leaders” to fix things for you.

Do it yourself.

Others will eventually come around but only after you show them the way.

Lesson 2

Don’t ask for anyone’s permission. You will never get it.

Science has a lot of institutions, but it is a collective that moves forward when people, not institutions, take the lead.

Lesson 3

Be persistent, even obnoxious.

If you’re not annoying people, you’re not doing it right.

Lesson 4

Wear your open on your sleeve

YMMV

Not done

Static

Slow

Expensive

Ineffective

Open Access Publishing

Open Access Publishing

Publish when YOU are ready

Publish First Review Later

Review Early, Review Often

Review Usefully

Review Openly

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