Towards Open and Equitable Access to Research and Knowledge for Development
PLoS MedicinePublished 29 March 2011Open access
Leslie Chan, Barbara Kirsop, Subbiah Arunachalam
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The value of open access not just for access to health information, but also for transforming structural inequity in current academic reward systems and for valuing scholarship from the South is discussed.
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Leslie Chan and colleagues discuss the value of open access not just for access to health information, but also for transforming structural inequity in current academic reward systems and for valuing scholarship from the South.
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