All research funded by NHMRC to be accessible free of charge. One of the important benefits that the public expects from publicly funded health and medical research is access to the published findings of that research. Patient groups, health consumers, advocacy groups and the individuals look for those outputs of health and medical research to access information about their health concerns. The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has joined other international health research funding bodies, both governmental (such as NIH) and philanthropic (such as the Wellcome Trust), in requiring that publications from research funded by us are placed in the public domain - so called “open access”.
This also assists other researchers in planning and conducting their research. Open access is particularly important for researchers in low income countries. The debate must be properly informed and so I would like to correct a detail in Justin Norrie’s article. Implements Policy to Make Research Papers Freely Accessible to Public. The UCSF Academic Senate has voted to make electronic versions of current and future scientific articles freely available to the public, helping to reverse decades of practice on the part of medical and scientific journal publishers to restrict access to research results.
The unanimous vote of the faculty senate makes UCSF the largest scientific institution in the nation to adopt an open-access policy and among the first public universities to do so. Richard A. Schneider, PhD “Our primary motivation is to make our research available to anyone who is interested in it, whether they are members of the general public or scientists without costly subscriptions to journals,” said Richard A. Schneider, PhD, chair of the UCSF Academic Senate Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication, who spearheaded the initiative at UCSF. UCSF is the nation’s largest public recipient of funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), receiving 1,056 grants last year, valued at $532.8 million.
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Libre accès à l'information scientifique et technique. Open Access - Greater Reach For Research.
SHERPA. OpenAIRE. CCSd - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe.