2016, Number 2
Odovtos-Int J Dent Sc 2016; 18 (2)
Open Access in Dentistry - Editorial
Reyes CJ
Language: English
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Page: 9
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Currently, the open access concepts have been acquiring increased attention in basic science, and dentistry isn't an exception. Open access refers to the principle of providing free online access to scholarly-scientific publications, basically request for scientific articles to be accessible with no cost worldwide. This has been an extended debate among researchers, librarians, scholars, and publishers over the last decade. Recently, the NIH in the United States stated that scientific projects with NIH funded grants for research may have their publication available in NIH's PubMed Central open access database, also United Kingdom goverment required that all UK government-funded research has to be available via open access. This statements among others has expanded this debate.