Ideal Open Access (OA2) and the Lineage of Reproducibility

Abstract

Open Access is defined as unrestricted access to primary research articles for everyone. Scientific primary research publications demand the best of quality, ethics and rigor, regardless of the originality from non-OA or OA, and reproducibility is at the heart of this [1]. With the promise of the internet, the ideal OA (i.e. OA2) will present sufficient details to allow easy reproduction; however, articles with a fashionable “OA” label without solid data risk being nonsense, which is now happening in predatory journals [2]. Therefore, we need to urge our policy of copyright law and an intellectual property crediting system to align with OA. Otherwise, lots of issues may arise [1].