Science Open / Open Access Science | BIOTECHMIND

[From Google's English] "I'm sure we've all seen ever in the position of wanting to read a scientific publication, either by personal interest in the subject, for work or studies, and end up staying with the desire. As I said in a previous post , when a topic or research interest us there is nothing better to look for the most reliable source of information, however, it is often impossible to us with the original article because many of the journals in which they publish They are of limited access . Why do we have to pay € 30 to read an article? Today, with the amount of resources at our disposal, science should be available to everyone . The lack of transparency and accessibility leads directly to the underdevelopment of research, scientific advances suffer, and worse, science does not reach the people. If there's one thing we complained every other day is also the little budget devoted to research, but how are you going to get more support if people do not know that this money is invested? The Open Access movement seeking to end many of the obstacles that impede the distribution of scientific publications. It is not just what you have to pay to subscribe to a magazine or to download an article, also sometimes own management policy makes it difficult for publishers to reach readers articles. The basis of this movement are described in the Declaration of Budapest (Budapest Open Access Initiative) in 2002, theDeclaration of Bethesda (2003) and finally the Berlin Declaration (2003), although this movement has every day with the support of more institutions . Specifically, open access to scientific literature assumes that users can read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full texts of scientific articles and use them for any other legitimate purpose, always citing authors and giving them the control over the integrity of their work ..."