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| Posted: 27 Oct 2011 07:23 PM PDT open-access.org.uk "A substantial body of research literature establishes the benefits to private sector businesses of publicly funded research. Mansfield (1991,1995,1998), Beisea and Stahle (1998) and other studies provide evidence of tangible economic benefit, in particular in terms of product innovations achieved and revenue gained through enhanced sales. The work of Houghton et al. (2011) confirmed these conclusions and also drew out the benefits of access to research in terms of shortening product and service development cycles. This study confirms the importance placed by businesses on access to scholarly research and its broad impact in terms of product, service and process innovation although its sample provided little direct evidence of shortening development cycles....Open Access publishing provides a way of opening much more university and scholarly research to the business sector. This potential has been enthusiastically promoted by many in and around the business sector in the USA, but seems yet to gain much currency in the UK. Support for a business case by government and its agencies in the UK appears also to have been more cautious....This review reveals that the OA model is not widely understood among business users....[M]ost businesses spend considerable amounts of time working around paywalls....The review suggests that, at a time of accelerating pressure on SME competitiveness, a shift to Open Access would create significant cost savings by enabling businesses to review more quickly the relevance of individual papers and act accordingly. By boosting discoverability OA may also add value directly to levels and speed of knowledge transfer in this part of the economy...." |
| Openness to protect human subjects in research Posted: 27 Oct 2011 12:37 PM PDT Gavin Baker, (27 Oct 2011) The Department of Health and Human Services recently published a proposal to update the federal regulations that govern research on human subjects. In my comments on the proposal, I recommend that HHS: 1. Respect and enhance scientific openness; 2. Empower research participants and their communities; 3. Minimize and mitigate information risks; and 4. Collect the data necessary for system oversight. |
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