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OpenCon 2015 Highlights

OpenCon 2015 had amazing talks, panels, workshops and unconference sessions. We've collected them all below. Please spend some time exploring and sharing them.


  • Watch the Project Presentations
  • Look at the Workshops
  • Checkout the unconference session notes
  • Pre-conference Intro Webcasts
  • Find out the R2RC Award winner
  • Get photos

Day One



Wear Open on your Sleve - Mike Eisen

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Jimmy Wales and Wikipedia


My Pledge to be Open (yeah, how's that going) - Erin Mckiernan

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Open Science at CERN - Epic Open Wins Panel Part 1


Open Government Partnerships - Epic Open Wins Panel Part 2

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The ContentMine and Copyright Reform - Epic Open Wins Panel Part 3


SciELO as a powerful model for Open Access - Epic Open Wins Panel Part 4

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Open Access at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - Epic Open Wins Panel Part 5

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Open Science in High-Energy Physics - Salvatore Mele

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The enclosure of scholarly infrastructure - Geoffrey Bilder

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Making Open the Default - Bjorn Brembs

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Flipping Humanities Journals with the OLH - Martin Eve

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OOOCanada - Next Generation Panel Part 1

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Open Access Nepal - Next Generation Panel Part 2

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Open Access at Fulbright - Next Generation Panel Part 3

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SESS and Open Education advocacy - Next Generation Panel Part 4

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Day Two


Day Two saw our unconference and project presentations. You can read and build on the sessions and notes from unconference sessions here, simply find a session your interested in and view the "sesion notes". You can explore the projects presented here.


Open Education - Policy and Practice


What's Driving Predatory Open Access? - Evaluation Panel Part 1

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The REF: the largest research evaluation system in the world - Evaluation Panel Part 2


Alternative metrics for evaluating researchers - Evaluation Panel Part 3

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Q/A and Discussion - Evaluation Panel Part 4

Day Three



Correcting Copywrongs - Julia Reda


The EU System Explained - Advocacy Panel Part 1

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Aligning Open Science Policy in the EU - Advocacy Panel Part 2

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Open Education Policy in the EU - Advocacy Panel Part 3


How to do Advocacy in the EU and Q/A - Advocacy Panel Part 4

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Want even more?


If you want every video from OpenCon we've made a playlist just for you. Other resources, including videos from 2014, can be found on the resources page.


  • Watch the Project Presentations
  • Look at the Workshops
  • Checkout the unconference session notes
  • Pre-conference Intro Webcasts
  • Find out the R2RC Award winner
  • Get photos

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