Dear Neil and all,
Your list of questions is very thorough, and very broad. I recommend that the following specific topics be addressed as part of question 4, as some of the problems with the current OA system that are less often discussed but still very important to health, and particularly to research and knowledge in LMICs.
a. How can OA help research and knowledge from LMICs be peer reviewed, published, translated, and disseminated?
b. How can journals in LMICs and other journals with few resources have access to tools to screen manuscripts for potential scientific misconduct and other issues, including plagiarism, image manipulation, papermills, and AI-generated content that authors have not identified as such? Such tools are available to many journals with large publishers, but these publishers don’t work for, or with, many LMIC journals for a number of reasons, and journals in LMICs often cannot afford to pay for the tools.
c. How can OA help ensure that journal content from LMICs is indexed and discoverable via search engines? (WHO databases may contain LMIC content that is not indexed in other ways, but those databases may not be searched by usual search engines.)
Thank you for this valuable project.
Best wishes,
Margaret Winker
Margaret Winker, MD
eLearning Program Director
Trustee
World Association of Medical Editors
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