Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học 'Respiratory Research cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Intelligence and ambition are distributed equally around the globe. | Jeang Retrovirology 2010 7 67 http content 7 1 67 RETR0VIR0L0GY EDITORIAL Open Access Intelligence and ambition are distributed equally around the globe Kuan-Teh Jeang Abstract The impact of freely accessible knowledge distribution platforms is briefly discussed. At a recent international conference I heard former United States president Bill Clinton speak. As a part of his remarks Clinton commented that in his visits to many developing countries around the world he has found that The distribution of intelligence and ambition around the world is equal but the access to opportunities is not my paraphrasing . Clinton s point echoes a message of Malcolm Gladwell s book Outliers both argue that a critical key to success is less about who you are or where you are but whether you have not access to the same opportunities as others. Open Access publishing is fundamentally about providing opportunities . knowledge to all in an equally accessible platform. I have noted previously that this principle beyond all else was the prime motivation for founding Retrovirology 1 . While the Open Access publishing movement and its egalitarian approach to knowledge dissemination are laudable one should not neglect to highlight other equally worthy efforts to distribute knowledge freely. One such remarkable project is the MIT OpenCourseWare OCW initiative http . edu which provides free access via the internet to the academic contents video lectures syllabus problem sets exam solutions. of approximately 2 000 courses taught by 33 academic departments. There is an immense demand for OpenCourseWare as evidenced that it is being accessed million times each month by nearly 1 million unique visitors 2 many outside of the United States. The lasting impact of paradigm-changing platforms such as Open Access and MIT OCW remains to be quantified. On an anecdotal level my impression from editing Retrovirology suggests that greater accessibility Correspondence .
