The Role of Open Access in Reducing Waste in Medical Research

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Summary:

"The estimate that 85% of research is wasted referred only to activities prior to the point of publication. Much waste clearly occurs after publication: from poor access, poor dissemination, and poor uptake of the findings of research. The development of open access to research [5] is important to reduce this post-publication waste. Poor access—including paywalls, restrictions on re-publication and re-use, etc.—limits both researcher-to-researcher and researcher-to-clinician communications. As PLOS Medicine editorial leaders pointed out in a PubMed Commons response to the Lancet series [6], open access is more than free access and includes “free, immediate access online; unrestricted distribution and re-use rights in perpetuity for humans and technological applications; author(s) retains rights to attribution; papers are immediately deposited in a public online archive, such as PubMed Central” [7]. Globally, the most important access problem is arguably due to language barriers, and with the growth of research in non-English-speaking countries, particularly China, this problem is likely to grow. Language barriers make even free-access research unusable, but by eliminating restrictions on re-publication and re-use, open access can at least reduce barriers to translation...."

Link:

https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1001651

Updated:

04/03/2021, 05:27

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Tags:

oa.medicine oa.multilingualism oa.benefits oa.reuse oa.translations

Date tagged:

04/03/2021, 09:27

Date published:

05/27/2014, 05:27