Open Access in Biomedical Research
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European Science Foundation, Science Policy Briefing No. 47, (Sep 2012)
From the Executive summary: This Science Policy Briefing aims to accelerate the adoption of open access to research articles in the biomedical sciences. We consider open access to be crucial for the free flow of information between researchers and within society as a whole, and the digital revolution of recent years provides an opportunity that has not yet been fully realised to transform access to scholarly publications. To achieve this goal this briefing makes a number of recommendations:
1 There is a moral imperative for open access
2 Individual agencies must work together to raise awareness of the moral imperative for open access
3 All research stakeholders should work together to support the extension of Europe PubMed Central into a Europe-wide PubMed Central