Lack of free access to research leads to discrimination, both in academia and for us all. The new guidance from the US is a huge step in the right direction.
- Editor in Chief, Medical Journal of Australia, Queensland University of Technology
Scientists and science publishers are sharing information as fast as they can during the COVID-19 pandemic. Speed and openness bring new challenges, but they are the way forward for research.
Pada Agustus 2019, pemerintah meluncurkan Repositori Ilmiah Nasional (RIN) sebagai bank data tingkat nasional yang mengumpulkan data primer penelitian. Apa saja manfaat maupun tantangannya?
The govt recently launched the National Scientific Repository (RIN) to become a national-level data bank that aggregates research data from various sources. What are the benefits and challenges?
“Soft” infrastructure includes the services, policies or practices that keep academic research working and open. Without a funded, coordinated national approach the private sector may take control.
Could the real open access please stand up? If more research was published according to true open access principles, we’d see better application of evidence for everyone’s benefit.
It’s not enough to do groundbreaking research if the results are kept from the public. So CERN is making its results available to everyone via open access, showing how science should be done.
To the mark the eighth annual Open Access Week, we asked our readers what they wanted to know about the initiative. Here are their questions with answers from our experts.
We have the technology and the will to expand open access to publicly funded research, but large vested interests are still putting up stiff resistance.
Researchers who feel pressured to publish in high ranking journals are more likely to cut corners, or even commit academic fraud.
Just as no one ever assumed that everything in print was trustworthy, neither should that be the case for open access content.
A new policy by publisher Elsevier is threatening to wind back the gains made by the open access movement.
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