Over the course of the BMJ Hack weekend, team member Joseph McArthur was interviewed by the BMJ’s Digital Engagement Editor, Matthew Billingsley. The interview can be found over here on the BMJ’s clinical community doc2doc or can be streamed below.

Last weekend, we took our open access button idea to the BMJ Hack and we built a protoype. We storify’d the weekend here. Who knew you could have so much fun? Indoors, on the hottest weekend of the year. Open Access Button@OA_Button Hello. Sat, Jul 06 2013 04:03:43 rewiredstate@rewiredstate Kicking off in a few minutes #BMJHack Sat, Jul 06 2013 02:17:34 David Carroll@davidecarroll The Open Access button, we need your help!

If we want to bring about a more open community we’ll need more tools, more information and more engagement around the issue. That’s where our idea comes in. Imagine a browser-based tool which allowed you to track every time someone was denied access to a paper? Better yet, imagine if that tool told gave you basic information about where in the world they were or their profession and why they were looking.

For the past few months, like chickens on eggs we have been sitting on what we think is a game changing idea. We’ve been sitting on it because despite trying as two student activists, we just haven’t found the help we need to make it a reality. So to preface what you’re about to read — we need your help. It almost goes without saying that the current model of scientific publishing needs a rethink.