Advocates for expanding open access to scientific research praised a White House bid for quicker public releases of studies resulting from federally funded projects while others openly objected to the plan.
Advocates for expanding open access to scientific research praised a White House bid for quicker public releases of studies resulting from federally funded projects, although a publishing trade group openly objected to the plan.
"Yet too often the articles that report on the results of this research are locked behind expensive paywalls," SPARC said."The world learned how critical open access to research was during COVID-19. In 2020, paywalls were lifted for coronavirus articles, enabling scientists and doctors to access the latest research without delay and leading to the fastest development of a vaccine in history.
"This important work is part of a competitive marketplace geared towards excellence; it is very different than the government mandating business models," ."How will publishers, especially small publishers, sustain the accuracy, quality, and output that the public interest requires?" "We will review the statement issued by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and look forward to discussions and working with the appropriate parties as the contours of this policy come into focus," Bibbins-Domingo said.The new Biden directive builds on previous federal efforts to expand access, which themselves were the result of years of work by advocates for greater sharing of scientific knowledge.
Also called PMC, PubMed Central launched in 2000 as a free archive for full-text biomedical and life sciences journal articles. The federal mandate changed PubMed Central from a somewhat sparse set of articles voluntarily contributed into a behemoth set of studies available to the public, Varmus said.
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