The Gaping Problem At The Heart Of Scientific Research - CodeBlue

Items tagged with oa.south in Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) 2023-01-22

Summary:

"But the very need for these groups to call for research to be made available in the middle of a global emergency demonstrates the failure of the current publishing system. Making research immediately free to read, which, when combined with the use of an open publishing licence, is known as ‘open access’ — is a hot topic in science. Global health bodies know how important open research is, especially in times of emergency, which is why they have repeatedly called for research to be made open.  The latest plaintive request came in August 2022 from the US White House Office of Science and Technology Policy for mpox research to be made open. Previous global calls were in 2016 for Zika and in 2018 for Ebola.  The consequences of lack of access to research can be dire. In 2015 a group of African researchers claimed that an earlier Ebola outbreak could have been prevented if research on it had been published openly. The past 12 months have seen a flurry of changes in open access globally and from January 2023, the high profile journal Science will allow published research to be immediately placed in publicly-accessible repositories at no cost to scientists. In August 2022, the Office of Science and Technology Policy issued a memorandum to all US research funding agencies that by January 1, 2026, they must make all the research they fund immediately publicly available, along with the data behind that research.... As 2023 unfolds, it seems that the benefits of open access have been proved beyond doubt. The next emergency in front of us, climate change, is much more complex, and there too are calls for open access. Serious investment in a variety of approaches is essential to ensure a diverse, equitable, open access future."

Link:

https://codeblue.galencentre.org/2023/01/20/the-gaping-problem-at-the-heart-of-scientific-research/

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oa.policies oa.ostp oa.obstacles oa.growth oa.dei usa unesco united_nations americas northern_america americas global_majority

Date tagged:

01/22/2023, 09:38

Date published:

01/22/2023, 04:38