Open Access

Open access (OA) initiatives aim to democratize scientific knowledge by making research freely available. Current research focuses on creating and utilizing large-scale OA datasets to improve AI models for tasks like scientific text summarization, question answering, and image generation, employing techniques such as multimodal learning and instruction tuning across multiple languages. This work is significant because it enhances accessibility, facilitates reproducibility, and enables the development of powerful AI tools that can assist researchers in various scientific disciplines. The availability of large, high-quality OA datasets is crucial for advancing these applications.