The ethical case for Open Access (OA) to research findings is especially salient when it is public health that is being compromised by needless access restrictions. But the ethical imperative for OA is far more general: It applies to all scientific and scholarly research findings published in peer-reviewed journals. And peer-to-peer access is far more important than direct public access. In this article, Stevan Harnad, Ph.D, from the Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, says that OA needs to be mandated, by researchers' institutions and funders, for all research.
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