The goal of this conceptual framework is to suggest processes for managing knowledge, making knowledge accessible to all stakeholders, to interpret the results within the political and social context and to facilitate decisions to improve population health and health equity.
Although the principle of patents is to make knowledge more accessible by giving patent holders greater control over the knowledge they claim as their own, there are repeated cases where this is not the outcome, as mentioned earlier.
While stationed as a radar technician in the Philippines in 1945, he read an article in the Atlantic Monthly by presidential science advisor Vannevar Bush that urged scientists to make knowledge more accessible.
It has been maintained that the strategy for preventing errors and adverse events in health care must involve tools that can improve communication, make knowledge more readily accessible, require key pieces of information, assist with calculations, perform checks in real-time, assist with monitoring and provide decision support[ 21].
"That's why it's so important to make knowledge of the collection accessible everywhere".
Bayle's contemporary Fontenelle continued in Descartes's wake to make knowledge, especially of science, more accessible to the educated layperson.
"Google has been able to take what we know about lynching, and what we have heard from the families, and what we have seen in the spaces and the communities where these acts of terror took place, and make that knowledge accessible to a lot more people," Equal Justice Initiative Founder and Executive Director Bryan Stevenson said in a statement.
What's more, ResearchGate has endeavored to give researchers a platform where they can not only upload the journals they've been published in, but share raw data as well — along with experiments that failed or succeeded — in an effort to make that knowledge accessible in a broader context.
"Google has been able to take what we know about lynching, and what we have heard from the families, and what we have seen in the spaces and the communities where these acts of terror took place, and make that knowledge accessible to a lot more people," said Bryan Stevenson, founder of EJI, in a press release.
Synthesising qualitative findings can make valuable knowledge accessible to healthcare professionals, particularly when the proliferation of studies might mean that this knowledge is 'doomed never to be visited' [ 1].
