User:David Ball

David works as an independent consultant, specialising in scholarly communication and Open Science/Open Access (see the recent UKeiG White Paper: http://www.cilip.org.uk/sites/default/files/documents/open_access_white_paper_final.pdf). Clients include: Public Library of Science (PLoS); the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (https://edoc.bbaw.de/opus4-bbaw/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2219); City University London; UKeiG (UK Electronic Information Group); Jisc Collections; SPARC Europe; EBSCO; Public Health England; OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks); Enabling Open Scholarship (EOS).

David has for the past 2 years worked as Project Officer for SPARC Europe on two European Open Science projects. PASTEUR4OA (Open Access Policy Alignment Strategies for European Union Research - http://www.pasteur4oa.eu/) aims to support the European Commission’s Recommendation to Member States of July 2012 that they develop and implement policies to ensure Open Access to all outputs from publicly-funded research. FOSTER (Facilitate Open Science Training for European Research - https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/project/) aims to produce a Europe-wide training programme that will help researchers, postgraduate students, librarians and other stakeholders to incorporate Open Access approaches into their existing research methodologies.

For SPARC Europe he has also created an institutional evaluation tool – How Open Is Your Research? (http://sparceurope.org/how-open-is-our-research-a-checklist-for-institutions/).