Advocating Open Access: Information Has the Power to Save Lives

Carol Bales — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:54:53 +0000

This post was originally published on the IntraHealth International blog.

To mark the beginning of Open Access Week, a global event now in its fifth year, which promotes open access as a new norm in scholarship and research, we started thinking about the concept of “open.” Google defines it as:

Allowing access, passage, or a view through an empty space; not closed or blocked up: ‘the door was wide open.’

IntraHealth has long championed the importance of health workers and managers having open access to information, particularly in developing countries. Open access is a natural extension of that work. As we blogged last spring, readily available and accessible information can help health workers save lives.

Author's name:

Corinne Farrell and Rebecca Rhodes

Publication Date:

October 2011