All year round, people in all sorts of roles—from students to scientists, professors to patients—support the idea that opening science means advancing science. For Open Access Week, in October, a group of San Francisco Bay Area partners organized a lively evening of talks touching on the notion that collaboration is inherent to that goal. Watch the entire event here, or pick and choose from the individual, 5-minute lightning talks on a variety of topics.

All year round, people in all sorts of roles—from students to scientists, professors to patients—support the idea that opening science means advancing science. The end of October, in particular, is the season to celebrate the successes and highlight resistant problems, when International Open Access Week rolls around.

This year, in the San Francisco Bay Area, seven partners active in the Open arena, put together a lively evening of talks, all touching on the notion that collaboration is a shot in the arm for science.

Here, you can see the entire event, uncut and without commercial interruption, or watch the eight individual lightning talks, one by one. (No more than 5 minutes apiece—our timekeeper was ruthless!)

To start us off...

Here are three short messages from a few of the presenters:

Daniel, a PhD candidate, has a nice story about how he got started doing open, collaborative science and all that his first full year has brought him and his research.

Anneliese and Marcus are librarians—liaisons, as she says, between research and scientific publishing. Hear how they see their role in the burgeoning world of open science and what they made of #OAW15SF. Then, browse the whole collection below.

A Career Boost from Open, Collaborative Science

Daniel Himmelstein, UCSF



‪Libraries Increase Both Access and Understanding of Rights

Marcus Banks, UC Davis

Librarians: Open Science Liaisons

Anneliese Taylor, UCSF

Open Access Week 2015: The Playlist

Let’s Collaborate! Boost your Citations and Visibility

- Realtime Open Science on Thinklab & The Horrors of Data Copyright

Daniel Himmelstein, UCSF

- The Relationship Between Collaboration and Citation

Stephanie Dawson, ScienceOpen

- Open & Collaborative Peer Review for Scholarly Communication & Scientific Progress

Rich Schneider, UCSF

- Wikipedia, WikiProject Medicine, and All of Us

Amin Azzam, UCSF

- Making Yourself Visible Online: How to Promote Your Research

Laurence Bianchini, MyScienceWork

- The Open Access Citation Advantage: Is There a Real Effect?

William Gunn, Mendeley

- Publish or Perish: How to avoid predatory publishers & conferences

Marcus Banks, UC Davis & Anneliese Taylor, UCSF

- Citing Software for Academic Credit

Mackenzie Smith, UC Davis

- Open discussion following the talks

Questions, answers and exchanges among all participants

- Full event: Open Access Week 2015/Bay Area

Let's Collaborate! Boost Your Citations and Visibility

- 3 perspectives on open science and OA Week 2015/Bay Area:

* A Career Boost from Open, Collaborative Science - Daniel Himmelstein, UCSF

* Libraries increase access & understanding of rights - Marcus Banks, UC Davis

* Librarians: Open Science Liaisons - Anneliese Taylor, UCSF

Open Access Week 2015/Bay Area was co-organized and sponsored by:

The UCSF Library, MyScienceWork, ScienceOpen, Protocols.io, Mendeley, PeerJ, Collabra/UC Press