Introduction
Professor Cameron Neylon is Professor of Research Communication at Curtin University’s Centre for Culture and Technology. Over the past decade Neylon has built an international reputation as one of the leading thinkers, technologists, and strategists on open approaches in scholarly communication and research more broadly. He is a highly respected Open Access activist: combining a rigorous background in empirical science with an interest in mechanisms for change across global systems for knowledge creation. Neylon is a sought-after writer, speaker and advisor to companies, funders, research institutions, and governments on the challenges of research management.
Employment History
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2012 – 2015 |
Advocacy Director, Public Library of Science (PLOS) As Director of Advocacy my work focussed on shaping funder and government policy, delivering new legislation in California and driving change in scholarly communication globally. |
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2005 – 2012 |
Senior Scientist, Biomolecular Sciences, ISIS Neutron Scattering Facility, STFC STFC is one of the UK’s seven research councils. As Senior Scientist in Biomolecular Sciences at ISIS my role was to develop the biosciences program. |
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2001 – 2009 |
Lecturer in Combinatorial Chemistry, University of Southampton As Lecturer in Combinatorial Chemistry I was involved in and lead a wide range of research projects ranging from directed molecular evolution to bioinformatics, protein modification techniques and new forms of analysis. |
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1999 – 2001 |
Wellcome Trust International Fellow, University of Bath |
Research Interests
The central thread in Neylon’s research and scholarship is how an understanding of systems and their emergent properties can be combined with design approaches to build tools that enable maximally effective interventions. This has frequently taken the form of an information analysis that identifies a point of maximum leverage, followed by tool building, information gathering or coalition building to attack that point.
In his work as a biological scientist, Neylon was involved in defining how the new set of technologies for DNA sequencing would need to work. In his work on article level and alternative research metrics he has consistently been at the forefront of defining how the new data available on scholarly communication can be used to create an environment that effects social change in the academy (and what risks those social changes might pose). His policy work on Open Access and Open Data has focussed on how the unique data and information that can now be obtained through digital networks can be deployed to shape and inform a debate.
At Curtin, Neylon is engaging with the New Models of Publishing research program being undertaken within CCAT.
Membership
Awards and Honours
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2012 |
Distinguished Innovator in Residence, Virginia Tech |
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2012 |
Fellow of the Open Forum Academy |
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2010 |
SPARC Innovator, for work on the Panton Principles for Open Data |
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2010 |
Blue Obelisk, for contributions to Open Data |
Memberships and Service
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2014 – 2016 |
Advisory Board, Open and Collaborative Science in Development Program (IDRC) |
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2012 – |
Board of Directors, Future of Research Communication and E-scholarship |
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2012 – 2015 |
Board of Directors, Crossref |
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2012 – 2014 |
Board of Directors, ImpactStory |
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2011 – 2014 |
Advisory Board, Scholarly Communication in Africa Program (IDRC) |
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2011 – 2012 |
Editor in Chief, Open Research Computation |
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2010 – 2012 |
Advisory Board, Detection of Archaeological Residues using remote sensing Techniques |
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2010 – |
Advisory Board, Climate Code Foundation |
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2009 – 2012 |
Academic Editor, PLOS One |
Publications
2020
- Huang, C. K., C. Neylon, R. Hosking, L. Montgomery, K. Wilson, A. Ozaygen, and C. Brookes-Kenworthy. 2020. "Evaluating institutional open access performance: Methodology, challenges and assessment."
- Huang, C. K., C. Neylon, R. Hosking, L. Montgomery, K. Wilson, A. Ozaygen, and C. Brookes-Kenworthy. 2020. "Evaluating institutional open access performance: Sensitivity analysis."
2019
- Hartley, J., J. Potts, L. Montgomery, E. Rennie, and C. Neylon. 2019. "Do we need to move from communication technology to user community? A new economic model of the journal as a club." Learned Publishing 32 (1): 27-35.
- Wilson, K., C. Neylon, L. Montgomery, and C. K. K. Huang. 2019. "Access to academic libraries: An indicator of openness?." Information Research 24 (1)
- Huang, C. K. K., C. Neylon, C. Brookes-Kenworthy, R. Hosking, L. Montgomery, K. Wilson, and A. Ozaygen. 2019. "Comparison of bibliographic data sources: Implications for the robustness of university rankings."
- Wilson, K., C. Neylon, L. montgomery, and C. K. K. Huang. 2019. "Access to academic libraries: an indicator of openness?." Information Research: an international electronic journal 24 (1): na-na.
- Wilson, K., C. Neylon, C. Brookes-Kenworthy, R. Hosking, C. K. K. Huang, L. Montgomery, and A. Ozaygen. 2019. "‘Is the library open?’: Correlating unaffiliated access to academic libraries with open access support." LIBER Quarterly 29 (1)
2018
- Neylon, C. 2018. "Social infrastructures in research communication: A personal view of the FORCE11 story." Insights: the UKSG Journal 31 (1)
- Montgomery, L., C. Neylon, A. Ozaygen, and T. Leaver. 2018. "Getting the best out of data for open access monograph presses: A case study of UCL Press." Learned Publishing 31 (4): 335-344.
2017
- Potts, J., J. Hartley, L. Montgomery, C. Neylon, and E. Rennie. 2017. "A journal is a club: a new economic model for scholarly publishing." Prometheus (United Kingdom) 35 (1): 75-92.
- Mons, B., C. Neylon, J. Velterop, M. Dumontier, L. O. B. Da Silva Santos, and M. D. Wilkinson. 2017. "Cloudy, increasingly FAIR; Revisiting the FAIR Data guiding principles for the European Open Science Cloud." Information Services And Use 37 (1): 49-56.
- Neylon, C., D. Pattinson, G. Bilder, and J. Lin. 2017. "On the origin of nonequivalent states: How we can talk about preprints." F1000research 6 (608)
- Neylon, C. 2017. "Openness in scholarship: A return to core values?." In 21st International Conference on Electronic Publishing: Expanding Perspectives on Open Science: Communities, Cultures and Diversity in Concepts and Practices (ELPUB 2017), Jun 6, 2017, Limasssol, Cyprus
- Neylon, D. C. 2017. "Working with web data and APIs." In Big Data and Social Science: A Practical Guide to Methods and Tools Foster, I., R. Ghani, R. Jarmin, F. Kreuter, and J. Lane., 23-70 Boca Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press.
- Moore, S., D. C. Neylon, M. Paul Eve, D. P. O’Donnell, and D. Pattinson. 2017. "“Excellence R Us”: university research and the fetishisation of excellence." Palgrave Communications 2016
- Neylon, D. C. 2017. "Compliance Culture or Culture Change? The role of funders in improving data management and sharing practice amongst researchers." Research Ideas and Outcomes 3
- Tennant, J. P., J. M. Dugan, D. Graziotin, D. C. Jacques, F. Waldner, D. Mietchen, Y. Elkhatib, L. B Collister, C. K. Pikas, T. Crick, and 23 more contributors. 2017. "A multi-disciplinary perspective on emergent and future innovations in peer review." F1000Research 6 (1151): 1-64.
- Neylon, C. 2017. "Sustaining Scholarly Infrastructures through Collective Action: The lessons that Olson can teach us."
- Moore, S., C. Neylon, M. Paul Eve, D. P. O’Donnell, and D. Pattinson. 2017. "Erratum: “Excellence R Us”: university research and the fetishisation of excellence (Palgrave Communications, (2017), 3, 1, (16105), 10.1057/palcomms.2016.105)." Palgrave Communications 3 (1)
2016
- Neylon, C. 2016. "Communities need Journals." Notes and Records 70 (4)
- Neylon, C., D. Pattinson, G. Bilder, and J. Lin. 2016. "On the origin of nonequivalent states: how we can talk about preprints."
- Neylon, C. 2016. " Communities need journals." Notes and records of the Royal Society of London 70 (4): 383-385.
2015
- Neylon, C. 2015. "The road less travelled: optimising for the unknown and unexpected impacts of research." In Open Science, Open Issues Albagli, S., M. L. Maciel, and A. H. Abdo., 69-86 Rio de Janeiro: Brazilian Institute for Information in Science and Technology.
- Neylon, C. 2015. "Open Access Pioneer: The Public Library of Science." In Patterns of Commoning Bollier, D., and S. Helfrich., 1-406: Amherst, Off the Common Books.
2014
- Byrnes, J., E. Baskerville, B. Caron, C. Neylon, C. Tenopir, M. Schildhauer, A. Budden, L. Aarssen, and C. Lortie. 2014. "The four pillars of scholarly publishing: The future and a foundation." Ideas in Ecology and Evolution 7
- Neylon, D. C., E. Pentz, and G. Tananbaum. 2014. "Standardized Metadata Elements to Identify Access and License Information." Information Systems Quarterly 26 (2): 35-37.
- Byrnes, J. E. K., E. B. Baskerville, B. Caron, C. Neylon, C. Tenopir, M. Schildhauer, A. Budden, L. W. Aarssen, and C. J. Lortie. 2014. "The four pillars of scholarly publishing: The future and a foundation." IDEAS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 7 (1): 27-33.
2013
- Milsted, A. J., J. R. Hale, J. G. Frey, and C. Neylon. 2013. "LabTrove: A Lightweight, Web Based, Laboratory 'Blog' as a Route towards a Marked Up Record of Work in a Bioscience Research Laboratory." Plos ONE 8 (7): 1-18.
- Furse, S., S. Liddell, C. A. Ortori, H. Williams, D. C. Neylon, D. J. Scott, D. A. Barrett, and D. A. Gray. 2013. "The lipidome and proteome of oil bodies from Helianthus annuus (common sunflower)." Journal Of Chemical Biology 6 (2): 63-76.
- Sanders, M. R., L. A. Clifton, C. Neylon, R. A. Frazier, and R. J. Green. 2013. "Selected wheat seed defense proteins exhibit competitive binding to model microbial lipid interfaces." Journal Of Agricultural And Food Chemistry 61 (28): 6890-6900.
- Neylon, C. 2013. "Architecting the Future of Research Communication: Building the Models and Analytics for an Open Access Future." Plos Biology 11 (10)
- Eisen, J. A., C. J. MacCallum, and C. Neylon. 2013. "Expert Failure: Re-evaluating Research Assessment." PLoS Biology 11 (10)
- Clifton, L. A., C. Neylon, and J. H. Lakey. 2013. "Examining protein-lipid complexes using neutron scattering." Methods In Molecular Biology 974: 119-150.
2012
- Beck, A., and C. Neylon. 2012. "A vision for Open Archaeology." World Archaeology 44 (4): 479-497.
- Neylon, C. 2012. "Science publishing: Open access must enable open use." Nature 492 (7429): 348-349.
- Neylon, C. 2012. "More Than Just Access: Delivering on a Network-Enabled Literature." Plos Biology 10 (10)
- Clifton, L. A., M. Sanders, C. Kinane, T. Arnold, K. J. Edler, C. Neylon, R. J. Green, and R. A. Frazier. 2012. "The role of protein hydrophobicity in thionin-phospholipid interactions: A comparison of α1 and α2-purothionin adsorbed anionic phospholipid monolayers." Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 14 (39): 13569-13579.
- Neylon, C., J. Aerts, C. T. Brown, S. J. Coles, L. Hatton, D. Lemire, K. J. Millman, P. Murray-Rust, F. Perez, N. Saunders, and 4 more contributors. 2012. "Changing computational research. The challenges ahead." Source Code for Biology and Medicine 7
- Crompton, S., C. Neylon, B. Matthews, E. Yang, and S. Coles. 2012. "Collaborative information management in scientific research processes." In 2012 IEEE 8th International Conference on E-Science (e-Science 2012), Oct 8, 2012, Chicago, Illinois
2011
- Broder, G. R., R. T. Ranasinghe, C. Neylon, H. Morgan, and P. L. Roach. 2011. "Kinetics and thermodynamics of biotinylated oligonucleotide probe binding to particle-immobilized avidin and implications for multiplexing applications." Analytical Chemistry 83 (6): 2005-2011.
- Brewer, A., G. Siligardi, C. Neylon, and E. Stulz. 2011. "Introducing structural flexibility into porphyrin-DNA zipper arrays." Organic And Biomolecular Chemistry 9 (3): 777-782.
- Telling, M. T. F., C. Neylon, L. Clifton, S. Howells, L. Van Eijck, and V. G. Sakai. 2011. "Thermal motion in the multi-subunit protein, apoferritin, as probed by high energy resolution neutron spectroscopy." Soft Matter 7 (15): 6934-6941.
- Clifton, L. A., M. R. Sanders, V. Castelletto, S. E. Rogers, R. K. Heenan, C. Neylon, R. A. Frazier, and R. J. Green. 2011. "Puroindoline-a, a lipid binding protein from common wheat, spontaneously forms prolate protein micelles in solution." Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 13 (19): 8881-8888.
- Clifton, L. A., M. R. Sanders, A. V. Hughes, C. Neylon, R. A. Frazier, and R. J. Green. 2011. "Lipid binding interactions of antimicrobial plant seed defence proteins: Puroindoline-a and β-purothionin." Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 13 (38): 17153-17162.
- Williams, A. J., R. J. G. Arnold, C. Neylon, R. W. Spencer, S. Schürer, and S. Ekins. 2011. "Current and Future Challenges for Collaborative Computational Technologies for the Life Sciences." In Collaborative Computational Technologies for Biomedical Research Ekins, S., M. A. Hupcey, and A. J. Williams., 491-518 USA: Wiley.
- Bradley, J. C., A. S. I. D. Lang, S. Koch, and C. Neylon. 2011. "Collaboration Using Open Notebook Science in Academia." In Collaborative Computational Technologies for Biomedical Research Ekins, S., M. A. Hupcey, and A. J. Williams., 425-452 Wiley: Wiley.
- Neylon, C. 2011. "It's not filter failure, it's a discovery deficit." Serials 24 (1): 21-25.
- Neylon, C. 2011. "Three stories about the conduct of science: Past, future, and present." Journal Of Cheminformatics 3 (10): 1-6.
- Parinov, S., and C. Neylon. 2011. "Science as a social system and virtual research environment." JASSS 14 (4)
- Smith, W. S., J. R. Hale, and C. Neylon. 2011. "Applying neutral drift to the directed molecular evolution of a -glucuronidase into a -galactosidase: Two different evolutionary pathways lead to the same variant." BMC Research Notes 4: 1-10.
- Charlton, T. R., R. L. S. Coleman, R. M. Dalgliesh, C. J. Kinane, C. Neylon, S. Langridge, J. Plomp, N. G. J. Webb, and J. R. P. Webster. 2011. "Advances in neutron reflectometry at ISIS." Neutron News 22 (2): 15-18.
- Brewer, A., G. Siligardi, C. Neylon, and E. Stulz. 2011. "Introducing structural flexibility into porphyrin-DNA zipper arrays (vol 9, pg 777, 2011)." ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY 9 (24): 8505-8506.
- Neylon, C. 2011. "Openness rules." NEW SCIENTIST 211 (2828): 28-+.
2009
- Neylon, C., and S. Wu. 2009. "Open science: Tools, approaches, and implications."
- Weber, G., J. W. Essex, and C. Neylon. 2009. "Probing the microscopic flexibility of DNA from melting temperatures." Nature Physics 5 (10): 769-773.
- Neylon, C., and S. Wu. 2009. "Article-level metrics and the evolution of scientific impact." PLoS Biology 7 (11)
- Neylon, C. 2009. "Stitching science together." Nature 461 (7266)
- Clifton, L. A., C. Neylon, A. E. Terry, I. C. Dicko, and I. A. Diddens. 2009. "Characterizing biomaterial complexity." Materials Today 12 (7-8): 86-91.
- Neylon, C., and S. Wu. 2009. "Open Science: tools, approaches, and implications."
- Matthews, B., A. Duncan, C. Jones, C. Neylon, M. Borkum, S. Coles, and P. Hunter. 2009. "A protocol for exchanging scientific citations."
- Weber, G., N. Haslam, J. W. Essex, and C. Neylon. 2009. "Thermal equivalence of DNA duplexes for probe design." Journal of Physics Condensed Matter 21 (3)
- Neylon, C. 2009. "Head in the clouds: Re-imagining the experimental laboratory record for the web-based networked world." Autom Exp 1
- Neylon, C. 2009. "Funding ban could break careers at the toss of a coin." Nature 459 (7247)
2008
- Broder, G. R., R. T. Ranasinghe, J. K. She, S. Banu, S. W. Birtwell, G. Cavalli, G. S. Galitonov, D. Holmes, H. F. P. Martins, K. F. MacDonald, and 4 more contributors. 2008. "Diffractive micro bar codes for encoding of biomolecules in multiplexed assays." Analytical Chemistry 80 (6): 1902-1909.
- Telling, M. T. F., C. Neylon, S. H. Kilcoyne, and V. Arrighi. 2008. "Anharmonic behavior in the multisubunit protein apoferritin as revealed by quasi-elastic neutron scattering." Journal of Physical Chemistry B 112 (35): 10873-10878.
- Teixeira, S. C. M., G. Zaccai, J. Ankner, M. C. Bellissent-Funel, R. Bewley, M. P. Blakeley, P. Callow, L. Coates, R. Dahint, R. Dalgliesh, and 46 more contributors. 2008. "New sources and instrumentation for neutrons in biology." Chemical Physics 345 (2-3): 133-151.
- Neylon, C. 2008. "Small angle neutron and X-ray scattering in structural biology: Recent examples from the literature." European Biophysics Journal 37 (5): 531-541.
- Teixeira, S. C. M., G. Zaccai, J. Ankner, M. C. Bellissent-Funel, R. Bewley, M. P. Blakeley, P. Callow, L. Coates, R. Dahint, R. Dalgliesh, and 46 more contributors.. "Erratum to "New sources and instrumentation for neutrons in biology" [Chem. Phys. 345 (2008) 133-151] (DOI:10.1016/j.chemphys.2008.02.030)." Chemical Physics Inpress.
- Haslam, N. J., N. E. Whiteford, G. Weber, A. Prügel-Bennett, J. W. Essex, and C. Neylon. 2008. "Optimal probe length varies for targets with high sequence variation: Implications for probe library design for resequencing highly variable genes." PLoS ONE 3 (6)
- Bradley, J. C., and C. Neylon. 2008. "Data on display. Interview by Katherine Sanderson." Nature 455 (7211)
- Bradley, J. C., C. Neylon, and K. Sanderson. 2008. "Already live do not publish data on display." Nature 455 (7211)
2007
- Chan, L., H. F. Cross, J. K. She, G. Cavalli, H. F. P. Martins, and C. Neylon. 2007. "Covalent attachment of proteins to solid supports and surfaces via sortase-mediated ligation." PLoS ONE 2 (11)
- Cavalli, G., S. Banu, R. T. Ranasinghe, G. R. Broder, H. F. P. Martins, C. Neylon, H. Morgan, M. Bradley, and P. L. Roach. 2007. "Multistep synthesis on SU-8: Combining microfabrication and solid-phase chemistry on a single material." Journal of Combinatorial Chemistry 9 (3): 462-472.
2006
- Holmes, D., A. Whitton, G. Cavalli-Petraglia, S. Banu, S. Birtwell, G. Galitonov, H. Martins, C. Neylon, N. Zheludev, and H. Morgan. 2006. "Optical and impedance detection for analysis of DNA hybridisation on encoded micro-particles."
- Weber, G., N. Haslam, N. Whiteford, A. Prügel-Bennett, J. W. Essex, and C. Neylon. 2006. "Thermal equivalence of DNA duplexes without calculation of melting temperature." Nature Physics 2 (1): 55-59.
- Mulcair, M. D., P. M. Schaeffer, A. J. Oakley, H. F. Cross, C. Neylon, T. M. Hill, and N. E. Dixon. 2006. "A Molecular Mousetrap Determines Polarity of Termination of DNA Replication in E. coli." Cell 125 (7): 1309-1319.
2005
- Neylon, C., A. V. Kralicek, T. M. Hill, and N. E. Dixon. 2005. "Replication termination in Escherichia coli: Structure and antihelicase activity of the Tus-Ter complex." Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 69 (3): 501-526.
- Kriek, M., C. Neylon, P. L. Roach, I. P. Clark, and A. W. Parker. 2005. "A simple setup for the study of microvolume frozen samples using Raman spectroscopy." Review of Scientific Instruments 76 (10): 1-3.
- Whiteford, N., N. Haslam, G. Weber, A. Prügel-Bennett, J. W. Essex, P. L. Roach, M. Bradley, and C. Neylon. 2005. "An analysis of the feasibility of short read sequencing." Nucleic Acids Research 33 (19): 1-6.
- Whiteford, N., N. Haslam, G. Weber, A. Prügel-Bennett, J. W. Essex, P. L. Roach, M. Bradley, and C. Neylon. 2005. "An analysis of the feasibility of short read sequencing." Nucleic acids research. 33 (19)
- Neylon, C., A. V. Kralicek, T. M. Hill, and N. E. Dixon. 2005. "Replication termination in Escherichia coli: Structure and antihelicase activity of the Tus-Ter complex." MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS 69 (3): 501-+.
2004
- Neylon, C. 2004. "Chemical and biochemical strategies for the randomization of protein encoding DNA sequences: Library construction methods for directed evolution." Nucleic Acids Research 32 (4): 1448-1459.
- Wood, R. J., D. D. Pascoe, Z. K. Brown, E. M. Medlicott, M. Kriek, C. Neylon, and P. L. Roach. 2004. "Optimized Conjugation of a Fluorescent Label to Proteins via Intein-Mediated Activation and Ligation." Bioconjugate Chemistry 15 (2): 366-372.
2000
- Neylon, C., S. E. Brown, A. V. Kralicek, C. S. Miles, C. A. Love, and N. E. Dixon. 2000. "Interaction of the Escherichia coli replication terminator protein (Tus) with DNA: A model derived from DNA-binding studies of mutant proteins by surface plasmon resonance." Biochemistry 39 (39): 11989-11999.
1997
- Guppy, M., L. Abas, C. Neylon, M. E. Whisson, S. Whitham, D. W. Pethick, and X. Niu. 1997. "Fuel choices by human platelets in human plasma." European Journal of Biochemistry 244 (1): 161-167.