Knowledge sharing in global health research – the impact, uptake and cost of open access to scholarly literature | Health Research Policy and Systems | Full Text

lterrat's bookmarks 2017-08-31

Summary:

"In 1982, the Annals of Virology published a paper showing how Liberia has a highly endemic potential of Ebola warning health authorities of the risk for potential outbreaks; this journal is only available by subscription. Limiting the accessibility of such knowledge may have reduced information propagation toward public health actors who were indeed surprised by and unprepared for the 2014 epidemic. Open access (OA) publication can allow for increased access to global health research (GHR). Our study aims to assess the use, cost and impact of OA diffusion in the context of GHR."

 

Link:

https://health-policy-systems.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12961-017-0235-3

Updated:

08/31/2017, 10:13

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks
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Tags:

oa.medicine oa.case oa.south oa.studies oa.empirical

Date tagged:

08/31/2017, 11:12

Date published:

08/29/2017, 10:13