Greater Innovation at Greater Speed: Blowing the Lid Off Academic Scholarship through €Œopen Scienceâ€�

Florida International University is making a name for itself in the field of open-access research, and it's no small feat: The university has received more than $317 million in grants over the past three years, and its research has helped save the Everglades, the Miami Herald reports.

"All that makes [the data] actually useable," says Associate Dean of Research Rita Teutonico, who helped lead a recent meeting of university presidents, provosts, and directors of research from NASA, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the Department of Energy on open-access research.

The idea is to make federally funded research more easily accessible to all.

"Everyone wants to see the investments that we make actually have an impact on society," Teutonico tells the Herald.

In fact, the US Office of Science and Technology Policy has set a goal of "free, immediate, and equitable access to federally funded research" by 2022, the Miami Herald notes.

So far, more than 50 university presidents, provosts, and directors of research have signed on to the open-access initiative.

Among the open-access projects FIU has helped with: the Human Genome Project, the Open Source COVID-19 Drug Discovery program, and the Florida Coastal Term Ecological Research

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