Open Access Memes

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Open publishing means that more people can see your research, comment on it, link to it, and build upon it. Don't limit those opportunities.

Meme explanation, courtesy of Know Your Meme:

Scumbag Steve is an image macro series featuring a kid with a sideways fitted cap standing in a hallway. The overlaid text generally centers around unethical behavior regarding drugs, partying, and other hedonistic behaviors.

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Studies have shown that Open Access increases citation impact by 25-250%. http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html

http://www.istl.org/10-winter/article2.html 

Meme explanation, courtesy of Know Your Meme:

You Can’t Explain That is an image macro series associating Bill O’Reilly with a misunderstanding of how mundane natural occurrences work.

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Your research is meant to add to existing knowledge and raise your profile as a scholar. Reaching a wide audience is essential to both of these goals. Why make your research harder to find?

Meme explanation, courtesy of Know Your Meme 

Bad Advice Cat is an advice animal image macro series with a cat recommending terrible or inane solutions to life’s problems..

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If the whole point of publishing scholarship is to get your research seen, why hide your work behind paywalls where only a minuscule portion of the population can read it?