Open access to cancer research: Tell us your story

[Creative Commons] Share Your Story Join Creative Commons in ensuring that open access plays a critical role in U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's [National Cancer Moonshot Initiative]. Biden and his team are currently developing their plans to achieve the initiative's goals, and he has asked to hear from us. We want to share your stories with the vice president. [Tell us what more immediate and open access to cancer research means to you and your family.] ["CC Cure Cancer"] by Ryan Merkley is licensed under [CC BY 4.0] Biden recently spoke at the convening of the American Association for Cancer Research on the need to speed up scientific research, development, and collaboration that can lead to better cancer treatments. In his speech, he noted: "Taxpayers fund $5 billion a year in cancer research every year, but once it’s published, nearly all of that taxpayer-funded research sits behind walls. Tell me how this is moving the process along more rapidly." He then [quoted Creative Commons' CEO Ryan Merkley], who recently published an [op-ed in WIRED] on the urgent imperative for open access to publicly-funded cancer research: "Imagine if instead we said, 'We will no longer conceal cancer's secrets in paywalled journals with restricted datasets, and instead make all that we know open to everyone, so the world can join a global campaign to end cancer in our lifetime'?" Help us tell Vice President Biden and his team what open access to cancer research would mean to you. [Share your story.] To unsubscribe from the Creative Commons newsletter: [ To opt-out of any future mailings from Creative Commons, simply visit this URL: [ Creative Commons PO Box 1866 Mountain View, CA 94042 United States [ Contact CC at info@creativecommons.org.