目前,根据联邦政府资助的科学研究,每年发布的50,000多种研究中的大多数都是由营利性出版商持有的。这些出版商为在线阅读的文章分配了高达50美元的价格。相关服务的订阅每年可能花费数千美元。
从10月开始,公共科学图书馆将开始将这些成本从最终的消费者(寻求医疗保健和治愈的人)以及正在强调工作的研究人员以及为研究提供资金的组织提供资金。开源医学研究?只有时间会给出答案。
reported on the Public Library of Science, an organization working to put medical research and scientific studies online — for free. Currently, most of the 50,000-plus studies published yearly based on scientific research funded by the federal government are held by for-profit publishers. These publishers assign rates as high as $50 to articles readable online. Subscriptions to related services can cost thousands of dollars a year. ">