Servizio di Radiologia, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Piazza Malan 2, 20097 San Donato Milanese, Milano, Italy.
Eur Radiol. 2013 May;23(5):1175-7. doi: 10.1007/s00330-012-2756-z. Epub 2013 Feb 27.
The scientific community is becoming increasingly web-based and the role of online communication is continuously expanding. In this setting, one fact and two trends should be considered. The fact is the decision by Britain's government and by the European Union to make all papers deriving from projects that were paid for using public funds freely available online for reading and redistribution (an approach already widely used in the US). The trends are the 'open review' process and the future perspective of having online-only scientific journals; the balance of advantages and disadvantages of such an approach is debated. These factors are challenging the scientific community worldwide and radiological scientific societies should play a relevant role in driving these processes.
• Research funded by the EU and Britain's government will soon be freely available • The open-review process has started in certain scientific communities, but not yet within radiology • Online communication is increasing its power within the scientific community.
科学界正日益依赖网络，在线交流的作用也在不断扩大。在此背景下，有一个事实和两个趋势值得关注。事实是，英国政府和欧盟决定让所有由公共资金资助的项目的论文都可以免费在线阅读和重新分发（这一做法在美国已广泛应用）。这两个趋势分别是“开放评审”流程和未来只出版在线版科学期刊的前景；对于这种方法，人们对其优缺点的权衡仍存在争议。这些因素正在给全球科学界带来挑战，放射学科学协会应该在推动这些进程中发挥重要作用。
• 由欧盟和英国政府资助的研究将很快免费提供• 某些科学领域已经开始采用开放评审流程，但放射学领域尚未采用• 在线交流在科学界的影响力日益增强。
