Comments on: More Steps for Open Access http://www.highlighthealth.com/resources/more-steps-for-open-access/ Discover the Science of Health Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:07:49 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dr Saba http://www.highlighthealth.com/resources/more-steps-for-open-access/comment-page-1/#comment-7253 Dr Saba Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:07:15 +0000 http://www.highlighthealth.com/resources/more-steps-for-open-access/#comment-7253 It shouldn't even be a debate - taxpayer-funded research should obviously be made available free of charge to the public. This is a no-brainer. I wish more too people cared about this and would actually contact their Senators and Representatives. Articles like this are very helpful. Thanks. It shouldn’t even be a debate – taxpayer-funded research should obviously be made available free of charge to the public. This is a no-brainer. I wish more too people cared about this and would actually contact their Senators and Representatives. Articles like this are very helpful. Thanks.

]]> By: Walter http://www.highlighthealth.com/resources/more-steps-for-open-access/comment-page-1/#comment-5001 Walter Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:33:12 +0000 http://www.highlighthealth.com/resources/more-steps-for-open-access/#comment-5001 Hi Rademisto: yes, you are entirely correct. Open access means faster distribution, which increases scientific advancement. You might be interested in a list of <a href="/resources/elseviers-approaches-to-public-access-of-biomedical-and-cancer-research/" rel="nofollow">open access biomedical literature resources</a> I compiled in a previous article. Moreover, many journals are now making research published after one year publicly available. Thanks for your thoughts! Hi Rademisto: yes, you are entirely correct. Open access means faster distribution, which increases scientific advancement. You might be interested in a list of open access biomedical literature resources I compiled in a previous article. Moreover, many journals are now making research published after one year publicly available. Thanks for your thoughts!

]]> By: Rademisto http://www.highlighthealth.com/resources/more-steps-for-open-access/comment-page-1/#comment-4965 Rademisto Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:35:32 +0000 http://www.highlighthealth.com/resources/more-steps-for-open-access/#comment-4965 Walter, I cannot believe that not a single person commented on this post! I am puzzled, shocked and speechless. I am sorry that I missed it when I returned to blogging and came your way. You are one of my favourite bloggers on medical matters and this business of open access to medical and/or scientific journals is a real bugbear for me. I used to do quite a lot of relatively minor research for private companies when I was still practising medicine and some of the references that came up on the searches would effectively lead to a dead end because I was presented with a teasing one sentence outline of the question asked, and then told that to find out if the results of the study bore out the researchers proposal, I would have to pay around 5 to 15 pounds per item depending on which journal the article was published in. In other words, I came up against the same problem as your researcher. Now that I have retired, I am merely curious and having had a rest from medicine, having gotten over the "I never want to see or hear anything to do with medicine ever again" grumps, I find that I enjoy looking at certain areas of medicine but want to make sure that the facts being presented are correct and the research is not cherry pickings! So much of todays research is under scrutiny because people are realising that flaws have been made in the past. So, I am very much in favour of the PloS organisation and the open access system. I know and am well aware of the naysayers and their reasons, but open access would allow more minds to look at the information currently available and by simple statistics, that means a greater chance of future furtherence of scientific knowledge, doesn't it? Or am I writing scrambled eggs? :) Walter, I cannot believe that not a single person commented on this post! I am puzzled, shocked and speechless. I am sorry that I missed it when I returned to blogging and came your way. You are one of my favourite bloggers on medical matters and this business of open access to medical and/or scientific journals is a real bugbear for me.
I used to do quite a lot of relatively minor research for private companies when I was still practising medicine and some of the references that came up on the searches would effectively lead to a dead end because I was presented with a teasing one sentence outline of the question asked, and then told that to find out if the results of the study bore out the researchers proposal, I would have to pay around 5 to 15 pounds per item depending on which journal the article was published in.

In other words, I came up against the same problem as your researcher.

Now that I have retired, I am merely curious and having had a rest from medicine, having gotten over the “I never want to see or hear anything to do with medicine ever again” grumps, I find that I enjoy looking at certain areas of medicine but want to make sure that the facts being presented are correct and the research is not cherry pickings! So much of todays research is under scrutiny because people are realising that flaws have been made in the past.

So, I am very much in favour of the PloS organisation and the open access system. I know and am well aware of the naysayers and their reasons, but open access would allow more minds to look at the information currently available and by simple statistics, that means a greater chance of future furtherence of scientific knowledge, doesn’t it? Or am I writing scrambled eggs? :)

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