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Published research results and ideas are the foundation for future progress in science and medicine. Open Access publishing therefore leads to wider dissemination of information and increased efficiency in science, by providing open access to ideas and open access to the broadest audience.
Whether you are a patient seeking health information, an educator wishing to enliven a lesson plan, or a researcher looking to formulate a hypothesis, making papers freely available online provides you with the most current peer-reviewed scientific information and discoveries.
The idea of open access is based on the view that research findings, particularly in health sciences, should be freely and immediately available to the world-wide scientific community, clinicians and the public, (from the PLoS)
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