There is no longer a debate about whether
the results of research should be freely accessible. All that remains is to
work out when and how access will be enabled. Meanwhile, the political and
economic question of 2012 has been: should governments invest to nurture
economic recovery, or tighten their belts and risk further economic damage?
Publicly funded research has often been at the heart of this debate as
governments attempt to ensure that public investment is generating the greatest
possible innovation, economic activity and societal gains.
It is in this light that researchers should
view the dramatic advance of open access in 2012. This shift, and the reason
why governments and funders are increasingly adopting or examining open-access
mandates, is about more than just the benefits of access. It is about the
potential of open access to improve the efficiency of research itself, and to
deliver a greater return on public investment.
In this context, free access is not enough.
To maximize the value of the public good and the return on investment, research
outputs must be reusable. That does not just mean making data or papers
available on the Internet, but ensuring that innovators can manipulate the
material, including mining, translating or expressing it in imaginative ways or
for new audiences.(article from: Science publishing: Open access must enable
open use)So oalib(www.oalib.net) is a new platform to realize this. Oalib offers
a tool for users to manipulate open access articles. Users can choose their own
options according to their purposes.
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