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At Thursday's Student Senate meeting, guest speaker Lee Van Orsdel, dean of University Libraries, explained a little more about the Open Access program, which aims to make scholarly research articles accessible to the public for free rather than requiring readers to pay publishers for subscriptions.
PLOS (and others): Many journals are beginning to accept the open-access paradigm for making articles accessible to all people, starting with PLOS.
In 2010, the university adopted an Open Access policy for articles authored by Duke faculty, and DukeSpace became the host platform to make these articles accessible under the policy.
Trying to make academic articles accessible to the public.
This fall, the new Public Library of Science will begin making peer-reviewed articles accessible free to all online.
More clarity is also needed on the embargo periods before published articles can be made accessible for free via repositories.
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Helpful + Ranking = WikiHow articles (easily accessible articles that help you accomplish something).
Supplementary material is available for this article at 10.2165/00003495-200969050-00004 accessibleessible for authorized users.
Data related to bone fractures, which was considered a final outcome measure for the larger trial, were not accessible for this article.
