YES YES YES
I could probably singlehandedly create a stroke strategy if I could read all the relevant papers. No one else is tackling that job since we have NO stroke leadership.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/13/opinion/sunday/should-all-research-papers-be-free.html?smid=tw-share
“Realistically only scientists at really big, well-funded universities
in the developed world have full access to published research,” said Michael Eisen,
a professor of genetics, genomics and development at the University of
California, Berkeley, and a longtime champion of open access. “The
current system slows science by slowing communication of work, slows it
by limiting the number of people who can access information and quashes
the ability to do the kind of data analysis” that is possible when
articles aren’t “sitting on various siloed databases.”
Dean,
ReplyDeleteI get frustrated when I find an interesting abstract, but they want $30 or more to get the full doc.
The story refers to Sci-Hub site, and after I downloaded the Chrome extension, I could search the site database of documents the make available at no cost. Probably not legal.