More Than Just Access: Delivering on a Network-Enabled Literature
EDITORIAL By any measure it has been a huge year for the open-access movement. At the beginning of the year, it looked possible that the public access policy of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) might be rolled back by the Research Works Act, a legislative attempt supported by Else...
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By any measure it has been a huge year
for the open-access movement. At the
beginning of the year, it looked possible
that the public access policy of the US
National Institutes of Health (NIH) might
be rolled back by the Research Works Act,
a legislative attempt supported by Elsevier
and the Association of American Publishers to make such policies illegal [1]. But as
we move towards year’s end, the momentum behind open access looks unstoppable
with the announcement of major policy
initiatives in the United States, the European Union, Denmark, and the United
Kingdom (see Table 1). Nevertheless,
there is still much to be done and the
challenges remain large, but the remaining
questions are largely ones of implementation, not principle.
Each year, a range of open-access
organizations support Open Access Week
(http://www.openaccessweek.org/), a
global event that provides the research
community, funding agencies, policy makers, and open-access publishers with an
opportunity to discuss, publicize, and
advocate for open access. With this year’s
successes, it is also a good time to reflect
on and to consider how we ensure that the
promise of open access is delivered. But if
we are to exploit the potential that open
access provides, we must look beyond just
making research findings accessible to
ensuring that they are legally and technically available for re-use. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-814722021-01-13T03:09:38Z More Than Just Access: Delivering on a Network-Enabled Literature Neylon, Cameron Science & Technology Life Sciences & Biomedicine Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Biology Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics EDITORIAL By any measure it has been a huge year for the open-access movement. At the beginning of the year, it looked possible that the public access policy of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) might be rolled back by the Research Works Act, a legislative attempt supported by Elsevier and the Association of American Publishers to make such policies illegal [1]. But as we move towards year’s end, the momentum behind open access looks unstoppable with the announcement of major policy initiatives in the United States, the European Union, Denmark, and the United Kingdom (see Table 1). Nevertheless, there is still much to be done and the challenges remain large, but the remaining questions are largely ones of implementation, not principle. Each year, a range of open-access organizations support Open Access Week (http://www.openaccessweek.org/), a global event that provides the research community, funding agencies, policy makers, and open-access publishers with an opportunity to discuss, publicize, and advocate for open access. With this year’s successes, it is also a good time to reflect on and to consider how we ensure that the promise of open access is delivered. But if we are to exploit the potential that open access provides, we must look beyond just making research findings accessible to ensuring that they are legally and technically available for re-use. 2012 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81472 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001417 English http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Science & Technology Life Sciences & Biomedicine Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Biology Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics Neylon, Cameron More Than Just Access: Delivering on a Network-Enabled Literature |
| title | More Than Just Access: Delivering on a Network-Enabled Literature |
| title_full | More Than Just Access: Delivering on a Network-Enabled Literature |
| title_fullStr | More Than Just Access: Delivering on a Network-Enabled Literature |
| title_full_unstemmed | More Than Just Access: Delivering on a Network-Enabled Literature |
| title_short | More Than Just Access: Delivering on a Network-Enabled Literature |
| title_sort | more than just access: delivering on a network-enabled literature |
| topic | Science & Technology Life Sciences & Biomedicine Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Biology Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81472 |