Breaking down paywalls and building bridges across disciplines with open access

 By Medium - 2021-03-19

Description

Open and fast access to both emerging and historical scientific research is a critical factor in accelerating the scientific breakthroughs required to fight Covid-19 and future health crises.

Summary

  • Sebastian Kohlmeier is the Head of Operations for Semantic Scholar at the Allen Institute for AI, and Product Manager for CORD-19.
  • When the dataset was released, an international coalition rose to the challenge of leveraging this important data including biomedical researchers, data scientists on Kaggle, policymakers, finance professionals, and the general public who aren’t otherwise affiliated with academic institutions and thus don’t have access to papers.
  • Social, economic, and policy data are also needed to coordinate an effective response to a new threat like a pandemic, and to make meaningful change in our capabilities to address and combat these crises.
  • Here, expert and undiscovered voices alike dive into the heart of any topic and bring new ideas to the surface.

 

Topics

  1. UX (0.16)
  2. NLP (0.15)
  3. Backend (0.13)

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