Experts for open access to scientific publications - Stooq

"The fact that free, open access (called Open Access) to scientific publications has many benefits - both scientific, economic, and political - argued during the conference 'Opening Science to Meet Future Changes' Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Science and Higher Education Jacek Guliński. He added that the open access science research collaboration strengthens, prevents duplication or plagiatom research, enables faster and more efficient verification of expenditure on education. Besides, it also gives the possibility to use the results of research, helps in conducting interdisciplinary research. Prof. Stevan Harnad of the Universite du Quebec a Montreal (Canada) pointed out, however, that only about 35 percent. published scientific publications in the open spaces. Meanwhile - in his opinion - it's worth to all publications around the world are made available free of charge. Harnad pointed out that each year the world's 28 thousand. journals published is 2,000,000 articles. 'No institution can afford to subscribe to all the major magazines' - he said. He added that most potential users do not have access to already published research results. 'In Poland - in terms of open science - this is already a lot of things, but these are the things that are happening locally and downstream. Still lacking a broader policy strategy at the state level. We have local initiatives that are not yet entirely systematic' - said in an interview with PAP one of the organizers of the conference Jacob Sprat of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw (ICM UW). In turn, Lidia Stępińska-Ustasiak of ICM UW explained in an interview with PAP that an important backdrop for the conference is the new framework program of the European Union - Horizon 2020 ... Prof. Nicholas Canny from the European Research Council (ERC) in an interview with PAP admitted that the Polish researchers can take full advantage of open access, it may be necessary to incur certain costs. Prepare to be such an infrastructure through which publications can be made available (in terms of, among others, repositories, which can be published publications). Another of the costs that arise in the Open Access charges are to be incurred by that wants through scientific journals free to share your publication - remarked the professor ..."