Ideas tagged with open access

Open access publishing and public literacy in human nutrition

Open Access (OA) publishing is widely recognized as a critical resource for the advancement of scientific progress. The attention in biomedical research regarding OA is testified by the adherence of the World Health Organization (WHO) OA policy to the principles of the Plan S initiative whereby ...

By Marco Capocasa, Davide Venier

Sharing standards before sharing resources? The case of research biobanks

In biobank research, one of the main obstacles for full applicability of Open Access to biomedical resources is the researchers’ reluctance to make immediately and freely available these materials before having adequately exploited their potential. To analyse this issue from a wider perspective,...

By Marco Capocasa, Flavio D'Abramo, Fabrizio Rufo, Paolo Anagnostou, Giovanni Destro Bisol