The Duke University Medical Center Library & Archives posted a story about International Open Access (OA) Week, Oct. 23-29, that features the thoughts of MGM's Dr. Joe Heitman and Emergency Medicine's Dr. Catherine Staton.
Dr. Heitman is focused on the good open access has to offer, especially for those who aren’t in an academic setting.
"Many people don’t have the benefit of the subscriptions that an academic library has access to," Heitman said. "They may not even be active scientists, but they still might be very interested in reading a scientific paper that maybe they saw a news article about or heard about on NPR."
Providing access to peer-reviewed science articles allows more people to engage with science and learn more about how the world works. "I think," Heitman said, "the more people reading science, the better."
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