David Cameron Neylon is an advocate for open access and Professor of Research Communications at th
Centre for Culture and Technology
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Education

Neylon was educated at the

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and the

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where they were awarded a

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degree in

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in 1999 for work on directed molecular evolution and DNA-binding specificity.

Career

In 2009 Neylon was a senior scientist at the

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of the

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. From 2012 to 2015 they served as director of advocacy at the

. They joined

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at Curtin University in 2015 as Professor of Research Communications. Neylon is an original drafter of the Panton Principles and opposed the

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and advocates for governmental encouragement for researchers to use open access licensing. Neylon advocates for the use of

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in determining the impact of scholarly publications.

Awards and honours

In 2010 they accepted a Blue Obelisk award.

References

External links

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