{"id":1300,"date":"2016-12-19T19:59:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T00:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:42","slug":"advocating-for-open-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2016\/12\/19\/advocating-for-open-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocating for open access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1302 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/laptop-819285_640-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Side view of open laptop with book inside with fanned pages.\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/laptop-819285_640-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/laptop-819285_640-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/laptop-819285_640.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Melissa Levine<\/strong>, the lead copyright officer at the U-M\u00a0Library and ex officio member of the library\u2019s open access committee, co-authored an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/12\/19\/open-access-publishing\/\">article advocating open access publishing<\/a> as a way to speed up scientific discoveries and advances in technology. &#8220;If published research and data were freely accessible and reusable by researchers of diverse interests, urgently needed solutions could be greatly accelerated,&#8221; writes Levine. &#8220;Scientists could quickly cross-check important studies, catching potentially consequential mistakes. Medical providers could access the latest technical guidance, improving patient care. And students around the world could build on each other\u2019s work. With openness, good ideas could truly come from anyone, anywhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa Levine, the lead copyright officer at the U-M\u00a0Library and ex officio member of the library\u2019s open access committee, co-authored an article advocating open access publishing as a way to speed up scientific discoveries and advances in technology. &#8220;If published research and data were freely accessible and reusable by researchers of diverse interests, urgently needed solutions could be\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2016\/12\/19\/advocating-for-open-access\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[195,130],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-open-access","tag-research"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/laptop-819285_640.jpg",640,425,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/laptop-819285_640-150x100.jpg",150,100,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/laptop-819285_640-300x199.jpg",300,199,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/laptop-819285_640.jpg",640,425,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/laptop-819285_640.jpg",600,398,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/laptop-819285_640.jpg",640,425,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/laptop-819285_640.jpg",640,425,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/laptop-819285_640-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/laptop-819285_640-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/laptop-819285_640-640x300.jpg",640,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/laptop-819285_640.jpg",640,425,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/laptop-819285_640.jpg",376,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Melissa Levine, the lead copyright officer at the U-M\u00a0Library and ex officio member of the library\u2019s open access committee, co-authored an article advocating open access publishing as a way to speed up scientific discoveries and advances in technology. &#8220;If published research and data were freely accessible and reusable by researchers of diverse interests, urgently needed&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1820,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions\/1820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}