The role of open access in reducing waste in medical research

PLoS Med. 2014 May 27;11(5):e1001651. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001651. eCollection 2014 May.

Abstract

In a guest editorial, Paul Glasziou discusses waste in medical research and how this can be ameliorated through improving post-publication access.

Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary

Publication types

  • Editorial
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Access to Information*
  • Biomedical Research / economics*
  • Humans
  • Information Dissemination*
  • Publications / economics

Grants and funding

PG is supported by NHMRC grant 0527500. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.