生物技术与生物材料

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Scientific Research and Freedom

Elshahawy WM

Nowadays, the need for scientific research is much more important than any other time. Scientific research will allow the community to grasp the flowery knowledge that provides comfort to man and help him to get over some of his problems. Scientific research needs freedom. The relation between both is built upon how they affect each other As the freedom of man is public rights, the academic freedom is needed for the academic society. The academic freedom is embodied in freedom of thinking and unchain of information sources. The effect of scientific research on man’s life comes from the applying benefits of these researches. Therefore, there must be a way for researches to spread out and overcome any political and geographical borders. Freedom of the scientific research tends to be associated providing scientists with access to and participation in the exchange of information and opinions. Right now, most scientific research exists behind expensive paywalls. Open-access journals are different. They make all the papers they publish available to anyone online. Thus, the dissemination is maximized for all to read and use for free. For the user for information, it will make it possible to easily find information without having to incur the costs of numerous subscriptions; for science libraries, it will reduce the astonishing fees they have to pay in order to provide coverage for their users.