Launched with the Associate Dean for Research and the Central Medical Library, Prof. Dr. Petra Arck, Dean of Research at UKE, noted: "Freely accessible research results are gaining importance in scientific and social discussions." DFG's funding enables researchers to publish in open access form, which is usually quite costly. Researchers can also apply for grants in the future. Open access goes beyond scientific publications and includes freely accessible educational materials or educational resources as well as open source software which comes with publicly-available source codes.
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