From the Arkivum blog
We’ve covered a lot of ground recently discussing the numerous benefits of open access to research outputs in past blog posts, including how the free research can be a valuable data resource for the general public—as well as an important asset for the wider research community. But did you know that open access can lead to job growth and a stronger economy?

Promote Entrepreneurship

Yes, that’s right: In addition to its primary impetus to drive scientific progress (and keep the funding bodies happy), open access delivers! It has the potential to promote entrepreneurship and job growth in a wide range of fields from healthcare to energy to agriculture. Open access allows companies to focus their efforts on understanding discoveries instead of going out and having to do the groundwork themselves, enabling faster turnaround from idea to product launch (that’s an oversimplification, but you get the idea). By knocking down access barriers that stand in the way, open access policies to research data can make it easier and faster to turn new ideas into new businesses, new jobs and new products.

Innovations

For instance, making human genome sequences publically available has led to a multitude of biomedical innovations—generating billions of pounds in revenue and the jobs that go with them.
Moving forward, wider discoverability and availability of peer-reviewed publications and associated scientific data (or just the data) in digital formats will create innovative opportunities that are completely unpredictable (that’s a Very Good Thing BTW). National policies that mobilise open access strategies for broader public access will also maximise the impact of the research investment.

Trusted

For such open access to work for the long term—let’s say for 50 years—and keep contributing to job growth, that data must be trusted, authentic and have integrity (otherwise what’s the point of having it available?). That’s where we come in of course. We make sure that open access delivers.
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