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View article: Dissecting inequity: global systematic review of trauma clinical guidance
Dissecting inequity: global systematic review of trauma clinical guidance Open
Introduction Efforts to strengthen healthcare systems have led to the development of clinical practice guidance, defined as clinical decision-making aids built on scientific evidence, experiential knowledge, and ideally, patient values. Th…
View article: A Systematic Review of the Current State of Trauma Clinical Practice Guidelines in the United States: Timeliness, Relevance, Accessibility, Quality, and Equity
A Systematic Review of the Current State of Trauma Clinical Practice Guidelines in the United States: Timeliness, Relevance, Accessibility, Quality, and Equity Open
Background Clinical Practice Guidance (CPGs) are essential for standardizing trauma care and improving patient outcomes. Trauma clinical guidance in the United States often lacks coordination, timely updates, and applicability beyond acade…
View article: A decade of open access policy at the Gates Foundation based on experimentation, evidence and evolution
A decade of open access policy at the Gates Foundation based on experimentation, evidence and evolution Open
This article provides an in-depth look at the Gates Foundation’s open access (OA) policy journey as 2025 marks a decade of OA policy for the foundation. There have been two iterations of the policy – the original version that was launched …
View article: Equitable and effective clinical guidance development and dissemination: trauma aims to lead the way
Equitable and effective clinical guidance development and dissemination: trauma aims to lead the way Open
Thirty-four per cent of deaths among Americans aged 1–46 are due to injury, and many of these deaths could be prevented if all hospitals performed as well as the highest-performing hospitals. The Institute of Medicine and the National Acad…
View article: Recommendations for accelerating open preprint peer review to improve the culture of science
Recommendations for accelerating open preprint peer review to improve the culture of science Open
Peer review is an important part of the scientific process, but traditional peer review at journals is coming under increased scrutiny for its inefficiency and lack of transparency. As preprints become more widely used and accepted, they r…
View article: Changing the paradigm for primary research dissemination
Changing the paradigm for primary research dissemination Open
The predominant research publishing system is not equitable by design, nor optimised to advance research to create knowledge and ultimately to benefit society. Open Research Central (ORC) was created to foster the re-imagination of the res…
View article: Access to evidence-based care: a systematic review of trauma and surgical literature costs across resource settings
Access to evidence-based care: a systematic review of trauma and surgical literature costs across resource settings Open
Background Evidence-based medicine has become the foundation for surgeons around the world to provide the most effective surgical care. However, the article processing charges (APCs) and subscription fees for surgical journals may be a bar…
View article: Advancing the culture of peer review with preprints
Advancing the culture of peer review with preprints Open
Preprints enable new forms of peer review that have the potential to be more thorough, inclusive, and collegial. In December 2022, 80 researchers and representatives of funders, institutions, preprint servers, journals, indexers, and revie…
View article: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as promoter of Open Research
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as promoter of Open Research Open
An online interview with Ashley Farley, program officer of Knowledge and Research Services at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. As of 2023, the Gates Foundation earmarks some 8,000,000,000 US Dollars annually to its various philanthropi…
View article: Recommendations on Recognizing Preprint Review from the ASAPbio Funder, Researcher, and Institution Working Group
Recommendations on Recognizing Preprint Review from the ASAPbio Funder, Researcher, and Institution Working Group Open
In advance of the Recognizing Preprint Peer Review meeting in December 2022, ASAPbio convened two Working Groups of different stakeholders to articulate the added value of incorporating preprint review into assessment processes, catalog po…
View article: Hot memo summer: How OSTP's recommendations will lead to a large-scale transformation of the research ecosystem
Hot memo summer: How OSTP's recommendations will lead to a large-scale transformation of the research ecosystem Open
Since 2015 I've been steeped in the world of open access, academic publishing, and funder policies. This is a blip of time compared to many other experts and advocates in this space. I've often sardonically joked that if I had received a d…
View article: Hot memo summer: How OSTP's recommendations will lead to a large-scale transformation of the research ecosystem
Hot memo summer: How OSTP's recommendations will lead to a large-scale transformation of the research ecosystem Open
Since 2015 I've been steeped in the world of open access, academic publishing, and funder policies. This is a blip of time compared to many other experts and advocates in this space. I've often sardonically joked that if I had received a d…
View article: Dataset for Manuscript "Evaluating Inequalities in Access to Evidence Based Surgical Care: A Systematic Review of Surgical Literature Publication and Consumption Opportunities Across Resource Settings"
Dataset for Manuscript "Evaluating Inequalities in Access to Evidence Based Surgical Care: A Systematic Review of Surgical Literature Publication and Consumption Opportunities Across Resource Settings" Open
Dataset for a global access surgical literature systematic review. registered on Propsero (CRD42021240227) and titled Evaluating Inequalities in Access to Evidence Based Surgical Care: A Systematic Review of Surgical Literature Publication…
View article: Dataset for Manuscript "Evaluating Inequalities in Access to Evidence Based Surgical Care: A Systematic Review of Surgical Literature Publication and Consumption Opportunities Across Resource Settings"
Dataset for Manuscript "Evaluating Inequalities in Access to Evidence Based Surgical Care: A Systematic Review of Surgical Literature Publication and Consumption Opportunities Across Resource Settings" Open
Dataset for a global access surgical literature systematic review. registered on Propsero (CRD42021240227) and titled Evaluating Inequalities in Access to Evidence Based Surgical Care: A Systematic Review of Surgical Literature Publication…
View article: 5 Things with Ashley Farley, Program Officer of Knowledge and Research Services at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
5 Things with Ashley Farley, Program Officer of Knowledge and Research Services at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Open
I've been thinking about "open" every day for almost 6 years since I first learned about the open access movement as a budding librarian (I use the word "open" as an umbrella term to cover open access, open data, open science, and open res…
View article: Transformative agreements: Six myths, busted: Lessons learned
Transformative agreements: Six myths, busted: Lessons learned Open
Transformative agreement (TA) is an umbrella term used to describe contracts between institutions and publishers intended to transform the current, primarily subscription-based, journal publishing model to a fully open access (OA) model. T…
View article: Grantee guide to repository deposit Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation open access repository deposit
Grantee guide to repository deposit Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation open access repository deposit Open
Grantee Guide for how to upload an author accepted manuscript to an open access repository in order to comply with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Open Access Policy.
View article: How to address the persistent gender gap in academic research
How to address the persistent gender gap in academic research Open
A growing body of evidence shows that female researchers face distinct career
obstacles that affect their ability to win prestigious grants. These persistent
gender gaps can be mitigated as part of the foundation’s commitment to divers…
View article: Gender disparities in academic research productivity: A review of the evidence and implications for grant making and open access publishing
Gender disparities in academic research productivity: A review of the evidence and implications for grant making and open access publishing Open
This evidence review summarizes the current state of knowledge on gender gaps in academia, focusing on the disciplines that are of particular relevance to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
View article: ACRL-SPARC Forum: What we learned about community alignment and equity for emerging scholarly infrastructure
ACRL-SPARC Forum: What we learned about community alignment and equity for emerging scholarly infrastructure Open
During ALA’s 2019 Midwinter Meeting hosted in Seattle, ACRL, in partnership with SPARC, hosted a panel exploring emerging models for supporting open scholarly infrastructure that places an emphasis on alignment with community values, consi…
View article: Heard on the Net: “Academic” and “Freedom” Are Two Words for Nothing Left to Lose
Heard on the Net: “Academic” and “Freedom” Are Two Words for Nothing Left to Lose Open
Opinion piece on the use of Academic Freedom as an argument against open access publishing.
View article: Gates Open Research - Publication Data
Gates Open Research - Publication Data Open
Gates Open Research (https://gatesopenresearch.org/) publication metadata and events data, as of 1 March 2018.
View article: Gates Open Research - Publication Data
Gates Open Research - Publication Data Open
Gates Open Research (https://gatesopenresearch.org/) publication metadata and events data, as of 1 March 2018.
View article: The state of OA: a large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles
The state of OA: a large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles Open
Despite growing interest in Open Access (OA) to scholarly literature, there is an unmet need for large-scale, up-to-date, and reproducible studies assessing the prevalence and characteristics of OA. We address this need using oaDOI, an ope…
View article: FlourishOA Capstone Poster
FlourishOA Capstone Poster Open
Open Access (OA) publications allow for anyone to access research information free of charge. It is difficult for researchers to discover which OA publications exist, and the price to publish. We designed and implemented a data-driven web …
View article: The State of OA: A large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles
The State of OA: A large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles Open
Despite growing interest in Open Access (OA) to scholarly literature, there is an unmet need for large-scale, up-to-date, and reproducible studies assessing the prevalence and characteristics of OA. We address this need using oaDOI, an ope…
View article: The State of OA: A large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles
The State of OA: A large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles Open
Despite growing interest in Open Access (OA) to scholarly literature, there is an unmet need for large-scale, up-to-date, and reproducible studies assessing the prevalence and characteristics of OA. We address this need using oaDOI, an ope…