DIYbio article in Systems and Synthetic Biology Journal

[Thomas Landrain]

Dear all,

I am very happy to send you the pdf of the article I've been working on, with Morgan, Ariel and Remi, for over one and a half year now. It's been up and it's been down continuously, now the baby is finally out :) And it's all about DIYbio!
Sadly we couldn't find 2500$ for making the publication open access and as we didn't want to organize a crowdfunding campaign for this, we decided to send it to you all so that you could share it if needed :)
Hope you like it!

Best,
Thomas

[Patrik D'haeseleer]

Looks great!

Any particular reason for why you didn't wind up doing a tiny fundraiser to make it Open Access though?

One of the local hackerspaces here - Ace Monster Toys - has been making really good use of CrowdTilt to fund some of their equipment purchases. Much lower weight than kickstarter, and it's aimed more at splitting the cost between an existing group of people, rather than crowdfunding as widely as possible. I think that would be a great model for something like this.

Patrik

[Alexey Zaytsev]

How would you rise funds for someting that's not published yet? People
won't know if it's any good. And srsly, $2500 just to open an article?

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[Marc Dusseiller]

oooopppsss.

http://hackteria.org/?p=2654

[Thomas Landrain]

Thanks Patrik

2500$ is a pretty high amount of money and to be frank we didn't believe we could ask 250 people to give 10-15$ for this. If there was a group of 3000 peope ready to give 1$ for making articles open access then yes but that is still to be organized or to be found :)

Still, crowdtilt looks like an interesting tool.

Now thanks to Marc of Hackteria you can share this link if you prefer :)

http://hackteria.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/diyBio_landrain_2013.pdf

Thomas

[asa calow]

Excellent :-)

Congrats Thomas it's a supernice piece, look forward to catching up soon.

A

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[Patrik D'haeseleer]

I think you'd be surprised. The BackYard Brains guys raised close to $1500 (target $1350) from 57 donors for their Plos One paper on the Spikerbox fairly easily, with 5 backers pledging $150 or more:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/backyardbrains/backyard-brains-operation-publication

I know Plos has also offered deeply discounted publication charges for groups unable to pay the usual academic fees

As for the "how would you know it's any good" concern that Alexey raised: virtually all journals these days (and definitely all the Open Access ones I know of) allow people to post their paper on a preprint server such as arXiv.org. So you'd actually get far more of a guarantee than with your average kickstarter (and some peer editing if necessary - I would have loved to change that link for the bioprinter!).

Patrik