Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research pledges to make its research open to all

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-09-05

Summary:

"Today, we've teamed up with other leading UK medical research charities to support for open and unrestricted access to all of our research results ... Open access publishing challenges this model by making online research literature available for free to anyone, forever. And that includes scientists in poorer countries or small institutions that cannot afford the large subscription fees. In the last decade, new scholarly journals have sprung up providing all of its content as open access and many long-standing journals now have an open access option alongside the traditional pay-to-read content ... Open access can also encourage a collegiate and trusting culture. Raw data, software source code and lab materials are freely shared in the digital world. This makes it easier for the scientific community as a whole to corroborate and re-analyse research findings – by opening up the data behind a study, many others can quickly scrutinise the work rather than trying to repeat from scratch, and it is harder for authors to over-inflate the conclusions of their research.  And more than just a speedier sense-check, we hope an open system can truly promote innovation and discovery. Having unrestricted access to raw data, for instance, means other scientists can more easily combine and interrogate the data from many similar studies – a so-called 'meta-analysis' – to boost the power and rigour of the conclusions. This is a crucial step in the evaluation of new medicines – single trials rarely change clinical practice but a few studies meshed together can really show whether a treatment works or not.  Fully open access articles are also more readily available for some cutting-edge ‘big data’ investigations, like text- and data-mining. Supercomputers can draw on the many and varied data sources that now exist to spot connections individuals may not, leading to even more discoveries ..."

Link:

https://leukaemialymphomaresearch.org.uk/news-item/leukaemia-lymphoma-research-pledges-make-its-research-open-all

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Date tagged:

09/05/2014, 10:15

Date published:

09/05/2014, 06:15