What do you see as the benefits of open access publishing compared to traditional publishing models? I am a strong believer in open source software as a way of sharing useful tools, but more importantly the ideas and techniques behind them. Open source software can be a foundation that can be iteratively improved on by collaboration of a broad community. Fundamentally, in my view, knowledge is no different. If you choose to make your knowledge accessible only to a select few then you limit the value you give to the community, and that you get back from the community. Providing open access was critical to expose these ideas of clinical safety in AI to as wide a community of developers, policy makers, and end users, as possible, many of whom would be outside of academic institutions with subscriptions to medical journals. What advice would you give to other researchers who are considering publishing their work in open access formats for the first time? For me the question is not why publish open access, but rather why not publish open access? There may be situations where the community of people who are interested in your work are small and affiliated with academic institutions. Even then without open access you miss the opportunity of exposing your ideas to new communities with fresh perspectives.
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