Open access gör forskningen tillgänglig för alla
peter.suber's bookmarks 2013-05-03
Summary:
From Google's English: "With our tax money we pay for a lot of research. But the researchers arrive at, we need to pay again to take part of. Even though we already paid so we have to pay again. How can it be so stupid? Today Vetandets world is about efforts to make research results freely available on open access, a new way to disseminate their results become increasingly popular among researchers.
80% of Swedish scientific articles are not freely available even though they are paid for with tax money. To read articles you must purchase expensive subscriptions. One problem in particular for small research-intensive companies that can not afford to stick with all the journals. It brings to innovation and translation of scientific discoveries delayed. Now increases the demands on the research results will be freely available and in the UK since 1 April this year, a requirement of the research funded by taxpayers' money.
The program involves working researcher Johanna Alkan Olsson from Lund University. Medical researcher and founder of Research Gate, Iyad Madisch. Ulf Kronman leading Royal Library work with Open Access. Jonas Nordin in the Department of Research at the National Library and Lars Bjørn Hauge who leads the European open access collaboration SPARC."