Science rankings rely on papers in academic journals. Broadening the view to include many more open-access journals will upend the usual order – thanks to China’s vast number of publications.
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Secondary publishing rights could facilitate immediate open access to publicly funded research and foster global innovation and discovery.
Some open access journals — those that don’t charge their readers a fee — require that researchers pay to publish with them. Removing author fees helps more researchers to publish their work.
Lack of free access to research leads to discrimination, both in academia and for us all. The new guidance from the US is a huge step in the right direction.
Making scientific research free to read could bolster collaboration and research on solving problems such as pandemics, climate change and more. The UN has taken a step towards realising this goal.
Open access to COVID-19 research accelerated the development of solutions. The urgency of climate change demands the same approach, but more than half of Australian research is still behind paywalls.
The idea is publicly funded Australian research should be free for the public to read when published. But if it means taking money from universities struggling for research funding, that poses risks.
We need to guarantee that the benefits of sciences are shared between scientists and the general public, without restriction. Peru and Brazil are leading the way.
An ‘open’ approach to hardware could make production bottlenecks a thing of the past.
In many other countries, a majority of research publications are now open access, but the system of paying for access still dominates academic publishing in Australia.
For science to be open, one can reasonably think that it would have to use open software. However, being completely open is not that easy.
Higher education should provide access for as many people as possible to fulfil their potential as individuals. Leaders in higher education must be ready to examine what it will take to achieve this.
All modern scientists should share ownership of their knowledge and research.
Indonesia has seen progress in open research ecosystem development. More needs to be done.
Scientists and science publishers are sharing information as fast as they can during the COVID-19 pandemic. Speed and openness bring new challenges, but they are the way forward for research.
Individually, we are all helpless in the face of the coronavirus crisis. A global collaborative boom is changing the way science is done.
But there are also risks to open science.
Universities and colleges could eliminate textbook fees if they supported the creation of open educational resources.
The UC libraries let their Elsevier journal subscriptions lapse and now the publisher has cut their online access. It’s a painful milestone in the fight UC hopes may transform how journals get paid.
An urgent discussion is needed around the cost of research publications.
Top contributors
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Director, Open Access Australasia, Queensland University of Technology
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Visiting Fellow, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
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Professor, School of Psychology, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, School of Chemistry, University of Sydney
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Emeritus Fellow, Australian National University
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Program Lead, Innovation in Knowledge Communication, Curtin University
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Professor Emeritus, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Literature, Technology and Publishing, Birkbeck, University of London
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Former Associate Vice Provost, The University of Texas at Austin
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Adjunct Professor Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology
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Researcher in Medical Sciences, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Distinguished Professor, University of Johannesburg
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Secretary-General, International Human Frontier Science Program Organisation; Emeritus Professor, Monash University, Monash University
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University Librarian, Australian National University
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Lecturer in History of Medicine/Life Science, The University of Melbourne
