[BOAI] How Open Access Empowered a 16-Year-Old to Make Cancer Breakthrough

[Nick Shockey]

Today, we’re excited to announce a Right to Research Coalition video interview with Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the US National Institutes of Health, and Jack Andraka, the 16-year-old inventor of a breakthrough cancer diagnostic, discussing the importance of Open Access.
 
Click here to watch the video interview
 
Click here to read our announcement
 
Jack used free online articles “religiously” in creating his pancreatic diagnostic that is 26,667 times cheaper, 168 times faster, and 400 times more sensitive than the current test.  In discussing his discovery, Jack points to paywalls for journal articles as a central barrier preventing others from making similar breakthroughs.
 
Jack is a perfect example of the increased innovation that arises from unexpected places when anyone with curiosity, determination, and an Internet connection has Open Access to the research literature. 


                         
Nick Shockey
Director, Right to Research Coalition
Director of Student Advocacy, SPARC
nick at arl.org
+1 202 296 2296
Skype: nick.shockey
http://www.righttoresearch.org
http://www.arl.org/sparc

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