A. T. Peterson, A. Emmett, J. Bolick, M. Greenberg, B. Rosenblum, 2016, Subsidizing truly open access, Science, vol. 352, no. 6292, pp. 1405-1405 - Peterson 2016 - Link
"We advocate a fundamental shift to a Platinum OA system"
J. Sommer, 2010, The delay in sharing research data is costing lives, Nature Medicine, vol 16, pp. 744 - Sommer 2010 - Link
"The prevailing medium of scholarly communication—the peer-reviewed journal article—although valuable in many ways, was not designed as a tool to help in the inherently urgent task of curing disease."
E. Zerhhouni, 2004, NIH Public Access Policy, Science, vol. 306, no. 5703, pp. 1895 - Zerhouni 2004 - Link
"Now, research information is largely available only to scientists, clinicians, patients, and educators through personal subscriptions or at academic and hospital libraries. It is important for NIH to provide the public access to an electronic archive of the findings resulting from publicly funded research." (former Director of NIH)
M. Al-Quraishi, P. Sorger, 2016, Reproducibility will only come with data liberation, Science Translational Medicine, vol. 8, no. 339, pp. 339 - AlQuraishi 2016 - Link
"It is now essential, in our opinion, that we transition to a system in which biomedical research data are liberated from dead-end formats and deposited in public repositories as a precondition for public funding and scientific publication"
X. Wang, C. Liu, W. Mao, Z. Fang, 2015, The open access advantage considering citation, article usage and social media attention, Scientometrics, vol. 103, no. 2, pp. 555-564 - Wang 2015 - Link
"OA papers not only have the great advantage of total downloads, but also have the feature of keeping sustained and steady downloads for a long time"
R. Laing, A. Martinelli, A. Tracey, N. Holroyd, J.S. Gilleard, J. A. Cotton, 2016, Chapter Thirteen - Haemonchus contortus: Genome Structure, Organization and Comparative Genomics, Advances in Parasitology, vol. 93, pp. 569-598 - Laing 2016 - Link
"The open access data from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute provided a valuable early resource for the research community"
R. Farrow, R. Pitt, B. Arcos, L. Perryman, M. Weller, P. McAndrew, 2015, Impact of OER use on teaching and learning: Data from OER Research Hub, British Journal of Educational Technology, vol. 46, no. 5, pp. 972-976 - Farrow 2015 - Link
"The true power of comparative research around the impact and use of open educational resources is only just being realised..."
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