This week is open access week, an opportunity to celebrate and raise awareness of the emergence and continued growth of open access. Countries have been taking increasingly strong steps toward making their research openly available, with mandates that require researchers who accept public grants to make their published research results freely available online within a reasonable time period. Leslie Chan, a professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough and one of the earliest global leaders on open access, joins the podcast this week to discuss its past, present and future.

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Show Notes:

Chan et al, Contextualizing Openness: Situating Open Science

Piwowar et al, The state of OA: a large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles

Credits:

Washington Post, Biden Unveils Launch of Major, Open-Access Database to Advance Cancer Research

UC Berkeley, Nobel Laureate Randy Schekman on Elsevier, Open Access

Transcript:

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