How Open Access Empowered a 16-Year-Old to Make Cancer Breakthrough

An interview on Open Access to research journals with Dr. Francis S. Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health, and Jack Andraka, the 16-year-old inventor of a breakthrough cancer diagnostic and winner of the 2012 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. The use of PubMed and NIH, and government open access policy are discussed.

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Authors: The Right to Research Coalition

Publication year: 2013

Language: English (EN)

Level of knowledge: Introductory: aware of

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Topics

Open Science Policies

Open Access Use and Reuse

Subject policies

Open Access policies

Audience

Librarians and Repository managers

PHD Students

Policy makers and Funders

Publishers

Researchers and Students

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 612425.
This project has also received funding from the European Union's Horizon2020 programme for research, technological development and demonstration under agreement no 741839.