Thursday, August 1, 2013

Open Access To Research: An Ideal Complicated By Reality

The article "Open Access To Research: An Ideal Complicated By Reality" appeared in Forbes on 29th July. Though the authors support open access and the new Obama-administration policy, details of which are to be announced in August, they point out that some kinds of research conducted at university, “primarily government-funded classified research and some industry-sponsored research—do not always appear in scientific publications and are sometimes at odds with the ideal of transparency and open communication of knowledge”. 



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